Pre-Columbian art : investigations and insights
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Pre-Columbian art : investigations and insights
University of Oklahoma Press, c1992
1st ed
Available at 6 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-322) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This 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 draws on a variety of scholarly disciplines to interpret the art forms and explains how the pre-Columbian artists validated their rules, recorded rituals, portrayed the supernatural and astronomical cosmos, and commemorated transitions from life into death. Pre-Columbian artists expressed themselves in sculpture and monumental architecture, glyphic notations, weavings, and painted ceramics - beginning about 2000 BC and, in some areas, continuing after the Spanish conquest.
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