Author: Hugo C. Ikehara-Tsukayama
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 52
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Pottery is one of the world’s most ancient and widespread technologies. Containing the Divine: Ancient Peruvian Pots explores how ceramic vessels can convey meaning far beyond their practical use. As this Bulletin attests, before the implementation of writing as we understand it today, Andean artisans used the shape and decoration of jars and bottles to communicate essential information for ritual practice and to promote the exchange of ideas. The more than 40 evocative works featured in these pages represent some 2,500 years of creativity in ancient Peru, with a focus on how these imaginative works served as conduits to worldly and divine power. Providing a rich opportunity to reflect on devotional practices of the past and today, Containing the Divine also shows how the legacy of these pots has inspired subsequent generations worldwide, from nineteenth-century British potters and French Post-Impressionist Paul Gaugin to contemporary Peruvian artist Juan Javier Salazar.
Author: Hugo C. Ikehara-Tsukayama
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Author: Heidi King
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 0300169795
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 237
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This title provides an in-depth and authoritative review of feeatherworking traditions in ancient Peru. The book includes a discussion of important recent discoveries, considerations of iconography, and basic technical characteristics of feather works.
Author: Alan Reed Sawyer
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 0870990373
Category : Indian art
Languages : en
Pages : 151
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Author: Max Uhle
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Category : Indian pottery
Languages : en
Pages : 116
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Author: Haagen D. Klaus
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 1477310584
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 486
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Traditions of sacrifice exist in almost every human culture and often embody a society's most meaningful religious and symbolic acts. Ritual violence was particularly varied and enduring in the prehistoric South American Andes, where human lives, animals, and material objects were sacrificed in secular rites or as offerings to the divine. Spectacular discoveries of sacrificial sites containing the victims of violent rituals have drawn ever-increasing attention to ritual sacrifice within Andean archaeology. Responding to this interest, this volume provides the first regional overview of ritual killing on the pre-Hispanic north coast of Peru, where distinct forms and diverse trajectories of ritual violence developed during the final 1,800 years of prehistory. Presenting original research that blends empirical approaches, iconographic interpretations, and contextual analyses, the contributors address four linked themes—the historical development and regional variation of north coast sacrifice from the early first millennium AD to the European conquest; a continuum of ritual violence that spans people, animals, and objects; the broader ritual world of sacrifice, including rites both before and after violent offering; and the use of diverse scientific tools, archaeological information, and theoretical interpretations to study sacrifice. This research proposes a wide range of new questions that will shape the research agenda in the coming decades, while fostering a nuanced, scientific, and humanized approach to the archaeology of ritual violence that is applicable to archaeological contexts around the world.
Author: Charles Williams Mead
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 40
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Author: Kathryn Calley Galitz
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 1588397645
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 123
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Portraiture goes far beyond capturing a likeness. This intimate genre sheds light on the subjects’ and makers’ politics, relationships, aspirations, and insecurities. Featuring more than fifty works across time and cultures, from the lifelike Faiyum funerary masks of ancient Roman Egypt to Pablo Picasso’s and Marsden Hartley’s abstractions to likenesses imagined by contemporary artists, this publication probes the notion of what constitutes a portrait, beyond mere verisimilitude. Bestselling author Kathryn Calley Galitz illuminates how artists through the ages have exploited the genre to reveal character and convey power and status; how artists as varied as Rembrandt and Cindy Sherman embraced artifice and roleplaying to explore identity; and how the term “portraiture” encompasses a wider variety of works than typically thought. This reexamination of a deceptively familiar genre provides fascinating ideas about what these images can tell us about the sitter, the artist, the culture in which they lived, and ourselves.
Author: Alfredo Rosenzweig
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789659095520
Category : Indian pottery
Languages : en
Pages : 167
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Author: Christopher B. Donnan
Publisher: University of California Los Angeles, Fowler Museum of Cultural History
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Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 136
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