Author: Terence Grieder
Publisher:
Published:
Total Pages: 251
ISBN-13: 9780835742795
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Barbara Braun
Publisher: Abradale Press
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 356
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Offers an in-depth look at pre-Columbian sources of modern art.
Author: Juan Schobinger
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-12-05
Total Pages: 590
ISBN-13: 1317476654
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Lavishly illustrated in full color and black and white, this handsome reference provides a broad survey of the rich artistic heritage of pre-Columbian North and South America. Meticulously researched by archaeologists and anthropologists, the set features dramatic close-ups of engraved rock artifacts, cave paintings, pottery, and inscribed and sculpted bones. Covering the entire two continents from present-day Canada in the far north through Central America and down to the Andes Mountains and Patagonia in the south, it is a stunning visual and written record of the great variety of artworks created by Neolithic American peoples over many millennia.
Author: Jean Paul Barbier
Publisher: Skira
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 116
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This guide provides a closer view of the pre-Hispanic world, analysing the origins and decline of the greatest ancient American civilisations.
Author: John W.. Hessler
Publisher:
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9781911282600
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The history of the early Americas is a story of before and after defined and divided by a pivotal moment of contact between two distinct cultures On the European side it is a tale of exploration highstakes treasureseeking and conquest For indigenous Americansincluding the Maya the Nahua the Ta no and the Wariit is the beginning of the end a violent saga of disease enslavement and the loss of languages and rituals This collision of cultures comes to life in the manuscripts maps archaeological objects and rare books that make up the collection of early American treasures in the Library of Congress in Washington DC 'Collecting for a New World: Treasures of the Early Americas' relates these encounters through vivid illustrations and interpretive descriptions of more than sixty rare and priceless items In describing for the first time the journeys of the objects themselvesvia African shipwrecks secret meetings on airstrips discoveries in castle libraries and journeys into unknown archaeological sites hidden deep in the jungles of Guatemalacurator John Hessler reveals the role played by private collectors whose knowledge vision andin many cases philanthropycontribute so significantly to the collective understanding and interpretation of history and culture.
Author: Leopoldo Castedo
Publisher: New York : Praeger
Published: 1969
Total Pages: 322
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Museo del Barrio (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher:
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 204
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Organized by El Museo del Barrio in New York to coincide with a major exhibition, this is the first comprehensive English-language publication on the fascinating legacy of Taiacute;no art and culture. Showcasing over one hundred rare and beautiful ceremonial and domestic artworks and individual masterpieces of this ancient culture -- produced in Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Cuba, Haiti, and the Bahamas between A.D. 1200 and 1500 --Taiacute;noincludes examples of finely detailed and polished sculptures carved in wood, precious ornaments of shell and bone, and ceramics decorated with animals, birds, and intricate geometric motifs. The contributors include ten of the foremost scholars of pre-Columbian culture and art, and an appendix features writings from Spanish explorers who had contact with the Taiacute;no. Of Arawak descent, the Taiacute;no -- whose ancestors migrated to the Caribbean from the Amazon Basin in South America during the sixth century -- were the first people encountered by Christopher Columbus. Although they ceased to exist as an autonomous society within sixty years of the arrival of Spanish colonizers, the Taiacute;no -- skilled agriculturists and navigators and accomplished weavers, potters, and carvers -- developed a complex political, religious, and social system, and made a substantial contribution to the biological, cultural, and linguistic makeup of large areas of the Caribbean. To this date, Caribbean communities in the Antilles and in New York and other large American cities exhibit the survival of Taiacute;no practices in their worldviews, religious beliefs, language, music, and food.