Pre-Columbian art : investigations and insights
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Pre-Columbian art : investigations and insights
University of Oklahoma Press, c1992
1st ed
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-322) and index
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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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