Traditional Animal Designs and Motifs (Dover Pictorial Archive)

This remarkable volume is one of the most extensive, carefully researched and superbly rendered collections of animal folk art designs from around the world. Included are over 1,000 royalty-free illustrations of animals, birds, insects, and creatures both real and fanciful as depicted in dozens of design traditions from Ancient Egyptian to Early American.Artists and craftspeople in need of striking and unusual motifs will find here dragons from China, deer from the Ukraine, elephants from India, scarab beetles and jackals from Egypt, Early American roosters, as well as hundreds of other creatures from Africa, Europe, the Middle East, and the Orient. Designs are conveniently arranged by country. An indispensable source of ready-to-use design, this moderately priced volume will appeal to students of fine art, folk art, anthropology, and other disciplines as well. Read more