Pre-Columbian Art and the Post-Columbian World
Author | : Barbara Braun |
Publisher | : Abradale Press |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
Offers an in-depth look at pre-Columbian sources of modern art.
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Author | : Barbara Braun |
Publisher | : Abradale Press |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
Offers an in-depth look at pre-Columbian sources of modern art.
Author | : Gilbert Mers |
Publisher | : University of Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780292760226 |
Author | : Hildegard Delgado Pang |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 1992-01-01 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780806123790 |
This profusely illustrated, up-to-date introduction to the pre-columbian art of Mesoamerica and Andean South America examines our conceptions of the ancient high cultures, the art they produced, and how our modern-day interpretations were achieved. The book is unique in that it draws on a great variety of scholarly disciplines to interpret the art forms. Since the 1960s our understanding of the Aztec, Maya, Inca, and Andean civilizations has increased dramatically through coordinated interdisciplinary research. In this summary of new and past investigations, Hilda Delgado Pang describes previously unknown historical figures and dynasties. In a clear and entertaining style, she tells how the pre-columbian artists validated their rulers, recorded rituals, portrayed the supernatural and astronomical cosmos, and commemorated transitions from life into death. As she describes the Mesoamerican and Andean high cultures, she also explains the special role that art plays in all societies, ancient and modern. Pre-columbian artists expressed themselves in sculpture and monumental architecture, glyphic notations, weavings, and painted ceramics--beginning about 2000 B.C. and, in some areas, continuing after the Spanish conquest. This new introductory text explores the contributions of epigraphy, formal and iconographic analyses, chemical and botanical identifications, and ethnographic and ethnohistorical sources to our knowledge of the major art styles: Olmec, Toltec, Maya, Aztec, Chavin, Paracas, Nasca, Moche, Tiahuanaco-Huari, Chimu, and Inca. From this book students and general readers will gain challenging insights into both the ancient art forms described and the fast-moving disciplines thatenergize research in the field today.
Author | : Robert Woods Bliss |
Publisher | : New York : Phaidon Publishers, distributed by Garden City Books |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 1957 |
Genre | : Central America |
ISBN | : |
The objects illustrated and described in this volume represent the finest craftsmanship and skill of aboriginal America. Few of these artifacts can be regarded as folk art; the bulk of the collection consists of objects manufactured for the aristocrats of their day who deemed them to be of high artistic merit. Furthermore, they represent a wide range in time and space, and they reflect many and varied stylistic traditions. - Introduction.
Author | : Jean Paul Barbier |
Publisher | : Skira |
Total Pages | : 116 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
This guide provides a closer view of the pre-Hispanic world, analysing the origins and decline of the greatest ancient American civilisations.
Author | : Hudson River Museum |
Publisher | : Hudson River Museum |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |