Mexican Color/Color en Mexico | 
 enlarge | Author: Poniatowska
Creator: Amanda Holmes
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
Category: Book
Buy New: $143.84
New (2) Used (7) from $24.98
Avg. Customer Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 865432
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 160
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.4
Dimensions (in): 12 x 9.3 x 0.7
ISBN: 1556708351
Dewey Decimal Number: 701.850972
EAN: 9781556708350
ASIN: 1556708351
Publication Date: September 1, 1998
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Condition: Book is brand new, and has never been opened. Thousands of satisfied customers!
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Amazon.com Review
This is a lavish picture book, meant to inspire and delight the reader with the vibrant colors of Mexican architecture, design, home furnishing, art, and artifact. Mexico is color incarnate, and Amanda Holmes's gorgeous full-color photographs bear this out graphically and spectacularly, showcasing everything from grand architectural facades to tiny decorating touches that enliven a corner; bring life to a small, dark room; or pull the brilliance of the sun indoors. Mexican culture uses color to dramatic effect in textiles, clothing, homes, markets, contemporary and folk art, interior design, and modern and ancient architecture. The author calls Mexico "the resting place of the rainbow," and the vibrant pictures and lively text of this beautiful book prove her right! --Mark A. Hetts
Product Description
A treasure trove of lifestyle ideas that encourages readers to bring the richness of vibrant hues into their own lives and homes. 200 color photos.
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 rich and warm walls of color August 4, 2001
22 out of 22 found this review helpful
"Mexico, a resting place for the rainbow" writes essayist Elena Poniatowska in this book centered on the subject of color. What makes the wonderful photographs by Amanda Holmes special and interesting is her way of seeing through the camera lens...in close-ups and unique angles. Categorized into themes, chapter # 1 is "The New World", with the fabulous wall paintings at Cacaxtla and Teotihuacan. # 2: "People of the Sun" focuses on some beautiful churches, as well as a few walls and doors. # 3: "A Sky Blue Balcony", has close-ups of brilliantly hued walls, balconies and building details. # 4: "The Brown Madonna", has everything from church niches to marketplace candies and more muli-colored walls. # 5: "The Space of Light", on modern Mexican architecture, and the colors that bring so much warmth to its clean, stark lines...with some of my favorite combinations, like apple green and bright pink...and that deep yellow that contrasts so well with the blues and aquas.The essays that are with these photographs are interesting and strangely poetic. At first I found the writing somewhat peculiar, then realized it's translated from the Spanish (by Aurora Camacho de Schmidt) in an almost literal manner...but once you get into the rhythm of it, is excellent. This hardback edition seems bigger than 160 pages because of its weight, with good quality thick pages, it's a sturdy volume. This book is much more about color than it is about Mexico, and for those of us who love color, it's a satisfying volume.
 Colorful Fun! August 12, 2000
11 out of 14 found this review helpful
Oh, this book was fun to look at. Looking at the ever so daring colored homes brings a sence of jealousy..Why can't I do that :-)but this book is for entertaining, not for educating. It has lovely photos, great colors of bulidings and walls. Text does accompany the photos mind you, if gives you a brief background to the style, but When you are going to paint your porch orange, and your stairs blue, and your walls exterior fushia, do you need an explaination?? Have some fun!
 disappointing March 20, 2000
28 out of 30 found this review helpful
If you enjoy beautiful photography for its own sake, this book is gorgeous; but if you want to see photographs of Mexican houses, interiors and folkcrafts, save your money. A big disappointment.
Color en Mexico January 23, 2000
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
The pictures are great but I wanted the English version - how can I get that? You do not indicate which language it is written in on your order form. I have seen the English version and assumed that this was what I had ordered. I will be returning this one (in spanish) - how can I get an English version
Color en Mexico January 23, 2000
18 out of 20 found this review helpful
The pictures are great but I wanted the English version - how can I get that? You do not indicate which language it is written in on your order form. I have seen the English version and assumed that this was what I had ordered. I will be returning this one (in spanish) - how can I get an English version
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