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Author: Gianni Eugenio Viola Publisher: Istituto Poligrafico E Zecca ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 672
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An iconographic volume, dedicted to Columbian historiography and the Columbus himself. This volume contains lots of prints and plates, with full facing descriptions. English edition.
Author: Gianni Eugenio Viola Publisher: Istituto Poligrafico E Zecca ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 672
Book Description
An iconographic volume, dedicted to Columbian historiography and the Columbus himself. This volume contains lots of prints and plates, with full facing descriptions. English edition.
Author: Vernon James Knight, Jr Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 113985173X Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 221
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This book offers an overview of iconographic methods and their application to archaeological analysis. It offers a truly interdisciplinary approach that draws equally from art history and anthropology. Vernon James Knight, Jr begins with an historiographical overview, addressing the methodologies and theories that underpin both archaeology and art history. He then demonstrates how iconographic methods can be integrated with the scientific methods that are at the core of much archaeological inquiry. Focusing on artifacts from the pre-Columbian civilizations of North and Meso-American sites, Knight shows how the use of iconographic analysis yields new insights into these objects and civilizations.
Author: Colin McEwan Publisher: British Museum Press ISBN: Category : Antiques & Collectibles Languages : en Pages : 260
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Publishing papers from an international conference held in May 1996 at the Museum of Mankind to mark the opening of the exhibition The Gilded Image: PreColumbian Gold from South and Central America, this text includes essays on gold funerary offerings from excavations at Batan Grande, Peru; the description of recently discovered Malagana goldwork from Columbia; and an accout of gold found in archaeological contexts from Panama.
Author: Nicholas J. Saunders Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1136605134 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 320
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Icons of Power investigates why the image of the cat has been such a potent symbol in the art, religion and mythology of indigenous American cultures for three thousand years. The jaguar and the puma epitomize ideas of sacrifice, cannibalism, war, and status in a startling array of graphic and enduring images. Natural and supernatural felines inhabit a shape-shifting world of sorcery and spiritual power, revealing the shamanic nature of Amerindian world views. This pioneering collection offers a unique pan-American assessment of the feline icon through the diversity of cultural interpretations, but also striking parallels in its associations with hunters, warriors, kingship, fertility, and the sacred nature of political power. Evidence is drawn from the pre-Columbian Aztec and Maya of Mexico, Peruvian, and Panamanian civilizations, through recent pueblo and Iroquois cultures of North America, to current Amazonian and Andean societies. This well-illustrated volume is essential reading for all who are interested in the symbolic construction of animal icons, their variable meanings, and their place in a natural world conceived through the lens of culture. The cross-disciplinary approach embraces archaeology, anthropology, and art history.
Author: Rocío Aranda-Alvarado Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 0520385969 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 383
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A curated selection of key texts and artists' voices exploring US Latinx art and art history from the 1960s to the present. A Handbook of Latinx Art is the first anthology to explore the rich, deep, and often overlooked contributions that Latinx artists have made to art in the United States. Drawn from wide-ranging sources, this volume includes texts by artists, critics, and scholars from the 1960s to the present that reflect the diversity of the Latinx experience across the nation, from the West Coast and the Mexican border to New York, Miami, and the Midwest. The anthology features essential writings by Mexican American, Puerto Rican, Cuban American, Dominican American, and Central American artists to highlight how visionaries of diverse immigrant groups negotiate issues of participation and belonging, material, style, and community in their own voices. These intersectional essays cut across region, gender, race, and class to lay out a complex emerging field that reckons with different histories, geographies, and political engagements and, ultimately, underscores the importance of Latinx artists to the history of American art.
Author: Esther Pasztory Publisher: University of Texas Press ISBN: 9780292706910 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 268
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"At its heart, Pasztory's thesis is simple and yet profound. She asserts that humans create things (some of which modern Western society chooses to call "art") in order to work out our ideas - that is, we literally think with things. Pasztory draws on examples from many societies to argue that the art-making impulse is primarily cognitive and only secondarily aesthetic. She demonstrates that "art" always reflects the specific social context in which it is created, and that as societies become more complex, their art becomes more rarefied."--Jacket.
Author: Gianni Eugenio Viola
Author: Gianni Eugenio Viola
Author: Peter David Joralemon
Author: Vernon James Knight, Jr
Author: Colin McEwan
Author: Julie Jones
Author: Nicholas J. Saunders
Author: N. C. Christopher Couch
Author: Rocío Aranda-Alvarado
Author: Samuel K. Lothrop
Author: Esther Pasztory