Ceramic Trees of Life: Popular Art from Mexico

Mulryan brings 25 years of experience conducting field research on Mexican ceramic art to this text, her third collaboration with the Fowler Museum. The publication accompanies an exhibition drawn largely from the Gerald Daniel Collection of Mexican Folk Art, gifted to the Museum in 1997, and features works dating from the 1940s to late-1990s. The text traces the origins of the Tree of Life to its pre-Columbian past, and the evolution of the genre in three Mexican potting towns. Illustrated throughout with color photographs. No subject index. Distributed by the U. of Washington Press. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)