Author: Institut Valencià d'Art ModernPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Photography, Artistic
Languages : es
Pages : 208
Book Description
Piezas selectas
Author: Institut Valencià d'Art ModernPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Photography, Artistic
Languages : es
Pages : 208
Book Description
A Catalogue of the Library of Brown University
Author: Brown University. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 604
Book Description
The Monthly Magazine
Author: Catalogue of the Library
Author: Catalogues of Sales
Author: Sotheby & Co. (London, England)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 1252
Book Description
The Shaman’s Mirror
Author: Hope MacLeanPublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292742509
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
Huichol Indian yarn paintings are one of the world's great indigenous arts, sold around the world and advertised as authentic records of dreams and visions of the shamans. Using glowing colored yarns, the Huichol Indians of Mexico paint the mystical symbols of their culture—the hallucinogenic peyote cactus, the blue deer-spirit who appears to the shamans as they croon their songs around the fire in all-night ceremonies deep in the Sierra Madre mountains, and the pilgrimages to sacred sites, high in the central Mexican desert of Wirikuta. Hope MacLean provides the first comprehensive study of Huichol yarn paintings, from their origins as sacred offerings to their transformation into commercial art. Drawing on twenty years of ethnographic fieldwork, she interviews Huichol artists who have innovated important themes and styles. She compares the artists' views with those of art dealers and government officials to show how yarn painters respond to market influences while still keeping their religious beliefs. Most innovative is her exploration of what it means to say a tourist art is based on dreams and visions of the shamans. She explains what visionary experience means in Huichol culture and discusses the influence of the hallucinogenic peyote cactus on the Huichol's remarkable use of color. She uncovers a deep structure of visionary experience, rooted in Huichol concepts of soul-energy, and shows how this remarkable conception may be linked to visionary experiences as described by other Uto-Aztecan and Meso-American cultures.
Catalog of Copyright Entries
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 1274
Book Description
Tezcatlipoca
Author: Elizabeth BaquedanoPublisher: University Press of Colorado
ISBN: 1607322889
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Tezcatlipoca: Trickster and Supreme Deity brings archaeological evidence into the body of scholarship on “the lord of the smoking mirror,” one of the most important Aztec deities. While iconographic and textual resources from sixteenth-century chroniclers and codices have contributed greatly to the understanding of Aztec religious beliefs and practices, contributors to this volume demonstrate the diverse ways material evidence expands on these traditional sources. The interlocking complexities of Tezcatlipoca’s nature, multiple roles, and metaphorical attributes illustrate the extent to which his influence penetrated Aztec belief and social action across all levels of late Postclassic central Mexican culture. Tezcatlipoca examines the results of archaeological investigations—objects like obsidian mirrors, gold, bells, public stone monuments, and even a mosaic skull—and reveals new insights into the supreme deity of the Aztec pantheon and his role in Aztec culture.
Catalogue
Author: Hispanic Society of America. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Brazilian literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1072
Book Description
A Catalogue of the Library of Brown University, in Providence, Rhode Island
Author: Charles Coffin JEWETTPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description