[PDF] Pre Columbian Ceramics eBook

Author : Jean Paul Barbier
Publisher : Skira
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 43,31 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Art
ISBN :

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This guide provides a closer view of the pre-Hispanic world, analysing the origins and decline of the greatest ancient American civilisations.

Author : Lawrence Waldron
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 30,91 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Caribbean Area
ISBN : 9781683400547

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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 : Barbara Braun
Publisher : Abradale Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 43,67 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Art
ISBN :

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Offers an in-depth look at pre-Columbian sources of modern art.

Author : Yumi Park Huntington
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 31,49 MB
Release : 2018-09-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0813052416

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This is the first volume to bring together archaeology, anthropology, and art history in the analysis of pre-Columbian pottery. While previous research on ceramic artifacts has been divided by these three disciplines, this volume shows how integrating these approaches provides new understandings of many different aspects of Ancient American societies. Contributors from a variety of backgrounds in these fields explore what ceramics can reveal about ancient social dynamics, trade, ritual, politics, innovation, iconography, and regional styles. Essays identify supernatural and humanistic beliefs through formal analysis of Lower Mississippi Valley "Great Serpent" effigy vessels and Ecuadorian depictions of the human figure. They discuss the cultural identity conveyed by imagery such as Andean head motifs, and they analyze symmetry in designs from locations including the American Southwest. Chapters also take diachronic approaches—methods that track change over time—to ceramics from Mexico’s Tarascan State and the Valley of Oaxaca, as well as from Maya and Toltec societies. This volume provides a much-needed multidisciplinary synthesis of current scholarship on Ancient American ceramics. It is a model of how different research perspectives can together illuminate the relationship between these material artifacts and their broader human culture. Contributors: | Dean Arnold | George J. Bey III | Michael Carrasco | David Dye | James Farmer | Gary Feinman | Amy Hirshman | Yumi Park Huntington | Johanna Minich | Shelia Pozorski and Thomas Pozorski | Jeff Price | Sarahh Scher | Dorothy Washburn | Robert F. Wald

Author : Alan C. Lapiner
Publisher : New York : H. N. Abrams
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 29,70 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Indian art
ISBN : 9780810904217

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A panoramic view of the arts of South America, with special emphasis on Peru.

Author : David A. Scott
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 46,15 MB
Release : 1994-10-27
Category : Art
ISBN : 0892362499

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Based on the 28th International Archaeometry Symposium jointly sponsored by the University of California, Los Angeles, and the Getty Conservation Institute, this volume offers a rare opportunity to survey under a single cover a wide range of investigations concerning pre-Columbian materials. Twenty chapters detail research in five principal areas: anthropology and materials science; ceramics; stone and obsidian; metals; and archaeological sites and dating. Contributions include Heather Lechtman's investigation of “The Materials Science of Material Culture,” Ron L. Bishop on the compositional analysis of pre-Columbian pottery from the Maya region, Ellen Howe on the use of silver and lead from the Mantaro Valley in Peru, and J. Michael Elam and others on source identification and hydration dating of obsidian artifacts.