Living in Morocco Dennis Lisl
Living in Morocco Dennis Lisl Morocco is an exhilarating combination of vivid sensuality and intense spirituality, an intoxicating blend of cultures. This revised edition of Living in Morocco…
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Living in Morocco Dennis Lisl
Morocco is an exhilarating combination of vivid sensuality and intense spirituality, an intoxicating blend of cultures. This revised edition of Living in Morocco celebrates the indigenous arts of a country at the height of a cultural renaissance. Berber, Arab, French, English, and Spanish: the country's rich mixture of heritages is matched by its geography, which ranges from coast to mountain to desert.
Berber rugs are justly famous, and there is a thriving tradition of woodworking, especially in the native thuya wood. Morocco is known for fine leather and for pottery that dates back a thousand years. Most extraordinary, though, is Morocco's decorative painting and tilework, where, forbidden by religion to depict human figures, craftsmen have developed a vocabulary of pattern and ornament.
The book is filled with brightly colored ceilings, decorated courtyards and walls, plaster