Ancient Art of the Andes
Author : Wendell C. Bennett
Publisher :
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 33,6 MB
Release : 1954
Category : Indian art
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Author : Wendell C. Bennett
Publisher :
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 33,6 MB
Release : 1954
Category : Indian art
ISBN :
Author : Wendell C. Bennett
Publisher :
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 32,95 MB
Release : 1954
Category :
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Author : Wendell Clark Bennett
Publisher :
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 14,27 MB
Release : 1954
Category : Art, Andean
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"Pre-Historic treasures of gold and silver, intricately woven tapestries, delicately painted paper-thin ceramics, and monumental stone carvings. More than 400 priceless objects have been assembled from private and public collections in Latin America, Canada, and the United States for this exhibition which will present for the first time under one roof the finest examples of art produced by ancient civilizations which flourished in the Andean region from about 1200 B.C. until the Spanish Conquest in the 16th century."--Excerpt from press release (see link below).
Author : Rebecca Stone
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 19,80 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Andes Region
ISBN : 9780500204153
"Fills a void in the genre. . . . Excellent descriptions and interpretations." --Latin American Antiquity
Author : Susan E Bergh
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 22,93 MB
Release : 2012-11-06
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 0500516561
Featuring approximately 145 of the most sumptuous and culturally significant Wari objects from collections in the United States, Peru, and Europe, and published to accompany the first exhibition in North America of their startlingly beautiful art An eminent ancestor of the better-known Inca, the Wari ascended to power in the south-central highlands of Peru in about AD 600, underwent a brief period of incandescently explosive growth, and then, by AD 1000, collapsed. Elite arts and the ideologies that informed them were among the Wari’s most prominent exports. From their capital, one of the largest archaeological sites in South America, they sent their religion along with elaborate objects and textiles out to highland provincial centers hundreds of miles to the north and south, and down into populous Pacific coastal areas to the west. The arts were crucial to the Wari’s political, economic, and religious communications: like other ancient Andean peoples, they did not write. The objects featured here cover the full range of Wari arts: elaborate textiles, which probably were at the core of their value systems; sophisticated ceramics of various styles; exquisite personal ornaments made of gold, silver, shell, or bone and often inlaid with precious materials; carved wood containers; and other works in stone and fiber.
Author : Elena Phipps
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 47,94 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Art, Spanish colonial
ISBN : 1588391310
"This unique volume illustrates and discusses in detail more than 160 extraordinary fine and decorative art works of the colonial Andes, including examples of the intricate Inca weavings and metalwork that preceded the colonial era as well as a few of the remarkably inventive forms this art took after independence from Spain. An international array of scholars and experts examines the cultural context, aesthetic preoccupations, and diverse themes of art from the viceregal period, particularly the florid patternings and the fanciful beasts and hybrid creatures that have come to characterize colonial Andean art."--Jacket.
Author : Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher :
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 16,21 MB
Release : 1955
Category : Andes
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Author : Karen O Bruhns
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 10,50 MB
Release : 2016-09-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1315428555
Nasca pots, Quimbaya figurines, Moche porn figures, stone shamans. Fakes and forgeries run rampant in the Andean art collections of international museums and private individuals. Authors Karen Bruhns and Nancy Kelker examine the phenomenon in this eye-opening volume. They discuss the most commonly forged classes and styles of artifacts, many of which were being duplicated as early as the 19th century. More important, they describe the system whereby these objects get made, purchased, authenticated, and placed in major museums as well as the complicity of forgers, dealers, curators, and collectors in this system. Unique to this volume are biographies of several of the forgers, who describe their craft and how they are able to effectively fool connoisseurs and specialists. This is an important accessible introduction to pre-Columbian art fraud for archaeologists, art historians, and museum professionals alike. A parallel volume by the same authors discusses fakes in Mesoamerican archaeology.
Author : Wendell Clark Bennett
Publisher :
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 45,39 MB
Release : 1954
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Author : Rebecca Stone
Publisher :
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 23,32 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Andes Region
ISBN : 9780500202869
This is a study of the art and architecture created by the various cultures of the ancient Andes. The book examines the goldwork, intricate textiles, vast cities and tall pyramids that constitute one of the oldest artistic traditions in history which, although the Incas are famous as the masters of the largest empire in the Renaissance world, remains relatively little-known."