Author: Leopoldo CastedoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cuzco school of painting
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
The Cuzco Circle
Author: Leopoldo CastedoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cuzco school of painting
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
The Cuzco Circle
Author: Leopoldo CastedoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cuzco school of painting
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
A Culture of Stone
Author: Carolyn J DeanPublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822393174
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
A major contribution to both art history and Latin American studies, A Culture of Stone offers sophisticated new insights into Inka culture and the interpretation of non-Western art. Carolyn Dean focuses on rock outcrops masterfully integrated into Inka architecture, exquisitely worked masonry, and freestanding sacred rocks, explaining how certain stones took on lives of their own and played a vital role in the unfolding of Inka history. Examining the multiple uses of stone, she argues that the Inka understood building in stone as a way of ordering the chaos of unordered nature, converting untamed spaces into domesticated places, and laying claim to new territories. Dean contends that understanding what the rocks signified requires seeing them as the Inka saw them: as potentially animate, sentient, and sacred. Through careful analysis of Inka stonework, colonial-period accounts of the Inka, and contemporary ethnographic and folkloric studies of indigenous Andean culture, Dean reconstructs the relationships between stonework and other aspects of Inka life, including imperial expansion, worship, and agriculture. She also scrutinizes meanings imposed on Inka stone by the colonial Spanish and, later, by tourism and the tourist industry. A Culture of Stone is a compelling multidisciplinary argument for rethinking how we see and comprehend the Inka past.
Library of Congress Subject Headings
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
Languages : en
Pages : 1592
Book Description
Library of Congress Subject Headings
Author: Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Library of Congress Subject Headings
Author: Library of Congress. Subject Cataloging DivisionPublisher: Washington, D.C. : Cataloging Distribution Service, Library of Congress
ISBN:
Category : Subject headings
Languages : en
Pages : 1348
Book Description
A-E
Author: Library of Congress. Office for Subject Cataloging PolicyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
Languages : en
Pages : 1548
Book Description
Inka Bodies and the Body of Christ
Author: Carolyn DeanPublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822323679
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Analysis of how a religious festival dramatized the subaltern status of indigenous converts and how these converts used this to construct positive colonial identities.
Pottery Style and Society in Ancient Peru
Author: Dorothy MenzelPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520338243
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 830
Book Description
Heaven, Hell, and Everything in Between
Author: Ananda Cohen SuarezPublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 1477300457
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Examining the vivid, often apocalyptic church murals of Peru from the early colonial period through the nineteenth century, Heaven, Hell, and Everything in Between explores the sociopolitical situation represented by the artists who generated these murals for rural parishes. Arguing that the murals were embedded in complex networks of trade, commerce, and the exchange of ideas between the Andes and Europe, Ananda Cohen-Aponte also considers the ways in which artists and viewers worked through difficult questions of envisioning sacredness. This study brings to light the fact that, unlike the murals of New Spain, the murals of the Andes possess few direct visual connections to a pre-Columbian painting tradition; the Incas’ preference for abstracted motifs created a problem for visually translating Catholic doctrine to indigenous congregations, as the Spaniards were unable to read Inca visual culture. Nevertheless, as Cohen Suarez demonstrates, colonial murals of the Andes can be seen as a reformulation of a long-standing artistic practice of adorning architectural spaces with images that command power and contemplation. Drawing on extensive secondary and archival sources, including account books from the churches, as well as on colonial Spanish texts, Cohen Suarez urges us to see the murals not merely as decoration or as tools of missionaries but as visual archives of the complex negotiations among empire, communities, and individuals.