[PDF] Treasures Of Ancient America The Arts Of The Pre Columbian Civilizations From Mexico To Peru eBook

Author : Barbara Braun
Publisher : Abradale Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 18,29 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Art
ISBN :

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

Author : Lee Allen Parsons
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 22,91 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780936260242

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"For archaeologists, artists, art historians, and all lovers of art, expecially pre-Columbian art." -- Choice "... one of the better general pre-Columbian catalogues to appear in a long time." -- African Arts More than 150 examples of Olmec and Maya art are described in detail, discussed, and reproduced in magnificent full-color photographs. The collection is grouped into cultural and geographical sections to give a complete picture of the most significant civilizations of ancient Latin America.

Author : Juan Schobinger
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 12,15 MB
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1317476654

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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 : Joanne Pillsbury
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 17,96 MB
Release : 2017-09-26
Category : Art
ISBN : 1606065483

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This volume accompanies a major international loan exhibition featuring more than three hundred works of art, many rarely or never before seen in the United States. It traces the development of gold working and other luxury arts in the Americas from antiquity until the arrival of Europeans in the early sixteenth century. Presenting spectacular works from recent excavations in Peru, Colombia, Panama, Costa Rica, Guatemala, and Mexico, this exhibition focuses on specific places and times—crucibles of innovation—where artistic exchange, rivalry, and creativity led to the production of some of the greatest works of art known from the ancient Americas. The book and exhibition explore not only artistic practices but also the historical, cultural, social, and political conditions in which luxury arts were produced and circulated, alongside their religious meanings and ritual functions. Golden Kingdoms creates new understandings of ancient American art through a thematic exploration of indigenous ideas of value and luxury. Central to the book is the idea of the exchange of materials and ideas across regions and across time: works of great value would often be transported over long distances, or passed down over generations, in both cases attracting new audiences and inspiring new artists. The idea of exchange is at the intellectual heart of this volume, researched and written by twenty scholars based in the United States and Latin America.