Important Pre-Columbian and Native American Art
Author: Heritage Auction Galleries (Dallas, Tex.)
Publisher: Heritage Capital Corporation
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 1599670704
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Heritage Auction Galleries (Dallas, Tex.)
Publisher: Heritage Capital Corporation
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 1599670704
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Heritage Auction Galleries (Dallas, Tex.)
Publisher: Heritage Capital Corporation
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 96
ISBN-13: 9781599670713
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Donald A. Proulx
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Published: 2009-08
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9781587298295
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →For almost eight hundred years (100 BC–AD 650) Nasca artists modeled and painted the plants, animals, birds, and fish of their homeland on Peru’s south coast as well as numerous abstract anthropomorphic creatures whose form and meaning are sometimes incomprehensible today. In this first book-length treatment of Nasca ceramic iconography to appear in English, drawing upon an archive of more than eight thousand Nasca vessels from over 150 public and private collections, Donald Proulx systematically describes the major artistic motifs of this stunning polychrome pottery, interprets the major themes displayed on this pottery, and then uses these descriptions and his stimulating interpretations to analyze Nasca society. After beginning with an overview of Nasca culture and an explanation of the style and chronology of Nasca pottery, Proulx moves to the heart of his book: a detailed classification and description of the entire range of supernatural and secular themes in Nasca iconography along with a fresh and distinctive interpretation of these themes. Linking the pots and their iconography to the archaeologically known Nasca society, he ends with a thorough and accessible examination of this ancient culture viewed through the lens of ceramic iconography. Although these static images can never be fully understood, by animating their themes and meanings Proulx reconstructs the lifeways of this complex society.
Author: Joanne Pillsbury
Publisher: Getty Publications
Published: 2017-09-26
Total Pages: 331
ISBN-13: 1606065483
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume accompanies a major international loan exhibition featuring more than three hundred works of art, many rarely or never before seen in the United States. It traces the development of gold working and other luxury arts in the Americas from antiquity until the arrival of Europeans in the early sixteenth century. Presenting spectacular works from recent excavations in Peru, Colombia, Panama, Costa Rica, Guatemala, and Mexico, this exhibition focuses on specific places and times—crucibles of innovation—where artistic exchange, rivalry, and creativity led to the production of some of the greatest works of art known from the ancient Americas. The book and exhibition explore not only artistic practices but also the historical, cultural, social, and political conditions in which luxury arts were produced and circulated, alongside their religious meanings and ritual functions. Golden Kingdoms creates new understandings of ancient American art through a thematic exploration of indigenous ideas of value and luxury. Central to the book is the idea of the exchange of materials and ideas across regions and across time: works of great value would often be transported over long distances, or passed down over generations, in both cases attracting new audiences and inspiring new artists. The idea of exchange is at the intellectual heart of this volume, researched and written by twenty scholars based in the United States and Latin America.
Author: Lawrence Waldron
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781683400547
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: Janet Catherine Berlo
Publisher:
Published: 2008
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The richness of Native American art is explored from the early pre-Columbian period to the present day, stressing the conceptual and iconographic continuities over five centuries and across an immensely diverse range of regions. 53 color photos. 104 halftones. 8 maps.
Author: Alana Cordy-Collins
Publisher: Palo Alto, Calif. : Peek Publications
Published: 1977
Total Pages: 532
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Lee Allen Parsons
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780936260242
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"For archaeologists, artists, art historians, and all lovers of art, expecially pre-Columbian art." -- Choice "... one of the better general pre-Columbian catalogues to appear in a long time." -- African Arts More than 150 examples of Olmec and Maya art are described in detail, discussed, and reproduced in magnificent full-color photographs. The collection is grouped into cultural and geographical sections to give a complete picture of the most significant civilizations of ancient Latin America.
Author: Barbara Braun
Publisher: Abradale Press
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Offers an in-depth look at pre-Columbian sources of modern art.