Pre-Columbian Art of Mexico and Central America
Author | : Hasso Von Winning |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 196? |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780810947511 |
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Author | : Hasso Von Winning |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 196? |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780810947511 |
Author | : Colin McEwan |
Publisher | : Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection |
Total Pages | : 758 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : Indian art |
ISBN | : 9780884024699 |
The final installment in the series of catalogues of the Robert Woods Bliss Collection, Pre-Columbian Art from Central America and Colombia at Dumbarton Oaks examines a comprehensive collection of jade and gold objects from Costa Rica, Panama, and Colombia. Full color photographs illustrate the breathtaking works of Indigenous artists and artisans.
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 | : 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 | : Julie Jones |
Publisher | : Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Indian goldwork |
ISBN | : 0821215949 |
Author | : Samuel Kirkland Lothrop |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1957 |
Genre | : Indian art |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Lawrence Waldron |
Publisher | : University Press of Florida |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Caribbean Area |
ISBN | : 9781683400547 |
Introduction -- Pre-Columbian peoples of the Caribbean -- Ceramics of the eastern Caribbean -- Ceramics of the Greater Antilles -- Rock art -- Sculpture -- Personal adornment -- Epilogue: Living legacies
Author | : Karl A. Taube |
Publisher | : Dumbarton Oaks |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780884022756 |
Olmec Art at Dumbarton Oaks presents the Olmec portion of the Robert Woods Bliss Collection of Pre-Columbian Art. It illustrates all thirty-nine Olmec art objects in color plates and includes many complementary and comparative black-and-white illustrations and drawings. The body of Pre-Columbian art that Robert Bliss carefully assembled over a half-century between 1912 and 1963, amplified only slightly since his death, is a remarkably significant collection. In addition to their aesthetic quality and artistic significance, the objects hold much information regarding the social worlds and religious and symbolic views of the people who made and used them before the arrival of Europeans in the New World. This volume is the second in a series of catalogues that will treat objects in the Bliss Pre-Columbian Collection. The majority of the Olmec objects in the collection are made of jade, the most precious material for the peoples of ancient Mesoamerica from early times through the sixteenth century. Various items such as masks, statuettes, jewelry, and replicas of weapons and tools were used for ceremonial purposes and served as offerings. Karl Taube brings his expertise on the lifeways and beliefs of ancient Mesoamerican peoples to his study of the Olmec objects in teh Bliss collection. His understanding of jade covers a broad range of knowledge from chemical compositions to geological sources to craft technology to the symbolic power of the green stone. Throughout the book the author emphasizes the role of jade as a powerful symbol of water, fertility, and particularly, of the maize plant which was the fundamental source of life and sustenance for the Olmec. The shiny green of the stone was analogous to the green growth of maize. This fundamental concept was elaborated in specific religious beliefs, many of which were continued and elaborated by later Mesoamerican peoples, such as the Maya. Karl Taube employs his substantial knowledge of Pre-Columbian cultures to explore and explicate Olmec symbolism in this catalogue.
Author | : Lee Allen Parsons |
Publisher | : HarperCollins Publishers |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Alan C. Lapiner |
Publisher | : New York : H. N. Abrams |
Total Pages | : 460 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Indian art |
ISBN | : 9780810904217 |
A panoramic view of the arts of South America, with special emphasis on Peru.