Author: George BankesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Moche Pottery from Peru
Author: George BankesSex, Metaphor, and Ideology in Moche Pottery of Ancient Peru
Author: Andrew David TurnerPublisher: BAR International Series
ISBN:
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
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Moche Art and Visual Culture in Ancient Peru
Author: Margaret Ann JacksonPublisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 0826343651
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
This multidisciplinary study analyzes the visual, linguistic, and cultural significance of the imagery used by the Moche in their ceramics and murals.
Moche Portraits from Ancient Peru
Author: Christopher B. DonnanPublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 9780292716223
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
"This is the largest collection of Moche portraits that has ever been published. As one of the most remarkable groups of portraits produced by any ancient people, it will be of interest to all connoisseurs and scholars of the world's great art traditions, as well as to students of the Moche and prehistoric Andean peoples."--BOOK JACKET.
The Moche of Ancient Peru
Author: Jeffrey QuilterPublisher: Peabody Museum Press
ISBN: 0873654064
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 171
Book Description
Quilter utilizes the Peabody's collection as a means to investigate how the Moche used various media, particularly ceramics, to convey messages about their lives and beliefs. His presentation provides a critical examination and rethinking of many of the commonly held interpretations of Moche artifacts and their imagery. It also raises important questions about art production and its role in this and other ancient and modern cultures. --
Moche Fineline Painting From San Jose De Moro
Author: Christopher B. DonnanPublisher: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
ISBN: 1950446026
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Moche civilization flourished on the north coast of Peru from AD 200 to 800. Although the Moche had no writing system, they left a vivid artistic record of their beliefs and activities on intricately painted ceramic vessels, several thousand of which are scattered in museums and private collections throughout the world today. Unfortunately, nearly all were looted by grave robbers so their origin and context are unknown. In recent years, however, through a combination of archaeological excavation and stylistic analysis, it has been possible to identify more than 250 painted vessels from the site of San Jose de Moro. To date, this is the largest sample of Moche art from a single place and time. Thus it provides a unique opportunity to identify a distinct sub-style of Moche ceramics, and to assess its range of artistic and technological variation. Moreover, within the sample it is possible to identify multiple paintings by 18 different artists, thus elucidating the range of subject matter that an artist would paint, as well as the variation in the way he would portray the same scene. By discussing and illustrating more than 200 painted vessels from San Jose de Moro, this volume provides insights about a community of ancient Peruvian potters who shared a distinctive painting style and left a fascinating record of their achievement.
Moche Pottery from Peru
Author: Museum of MankindPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mochica pottery
Languages : en
Pages : 1
Book Description
The Worlds of the Moche on the North Coast of Peru
Author: Elizabeth P. BensonPublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292737599
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
The Moche, or Mochica, created an extraordinary civilization on the north coast of Peru for most of the first millennium AD. Although they had no written language with which to record their history and beliefs, the Moche built enormous ceremonial edifices and embellished them with mural paintings depicting supernatural figures and rituals. Highly skilled Moche artisans crafted remarkable ceramic vessels, which they painted with figures and scenes or modeled like sculpture, and mastered metallurgy in gold, silver, and copper to make impressive symbolic ornaments. They also wove textiles that were complex in execution and design. A senior scholar renowned for her discoveries about the Moche, Elizabeth P. Benson published the first English-language monograph on the subject in 1972. Now in this volume, she draws on decades of knowledge, as well as the findings of other researchers, to offer a grand overview of all that is currently known about the Moche. Touching on all significant aspects of Moche culture, she covers such topics as their worldview and ritual life, ceremonial architecture and murals, art and craft, supernatural beings, government and warfare, and burial and the afterlife. She demonstrates that the Moche expressed, with symbolic language in metal and clay, what cultures in other parts of the world presented in writing. Indeed, Benson asserts that the accomplishments of the Moche are comparable to those of their Mesoamerica contemporaries, the Maya, which makes them one of the most advanced civilizations of pre-Columbian America.
Playing with Things
Author: Mary WeismantelPublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 1477323201
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
More than a thousand years ago on the north coast of Peru, Indigenous Moche artists created a large and significant corpus of sexually explicit ceramic works of art. They depicted a diversity of sex organs and sex acts, and an array of solitary and interconnected human and nonhuman bodies. To the modern eye, these Moche “sex pots,” as Mary Weismantel calls them, are lively and provocative but also enigmatic creations whose import to their original owners seems impossible to grasp. In Playing with Things, Weismantel shows that there is much to be learned from these ancient artifacts, not merely as inert objects from a long-dead past but as vibrant Indigenous things, alive in their own human temporality. From a new materialist perspective, she fills the gaps left by other analyses of the sex pots in pre-Columbian studies, where sexuality remains marginalized, and in sexuality studies, where non-Western art is largely absent. Taking a decolonial approach toward an archaeology of sexuality and breaking with long-dominant iconographic traditions, this book explores how the “pots play jokes, make babies, give power, and hold water,” considering the sex pots as actual ceramic bodies that interact with fleshly bodies, now and in the ancient past. A beautifully written study that will be welcomed by students as well as specialists, Playing with Things is a model for archaeological and art historical engagement with the liberating power of queer theory and Indigenous studies.
Ceramics of Ancient Peru
Author: Christopher B. DonnanPublisher: University of California Los Angeles, Fowler Museum of Cultural History
ISBN:
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description