Download or read book Mirrors of Clay written by Yumi Park and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2012-09-21 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mirrors of Clay: Reflections of Ancient Andean Life in Ceramics from the Sam Olden Collection features photographs and descriptions of sixty ceramic vessels from ancient Andean American cultures, including the Cupisnique, Chavín, Vicús, Nazca, Moche, Tiwanaku, Lambayeque, and Chimú, which flourished between 1200 BCE and 1550 CE. These distinctive ceramic vessels, selected from the collection of Sam Olden, were given to the Mississippi Museum of Art and are included in a special exhibition presented by the museum and Jackson State University. The pieces reveal each culture's stylistic aesthetics, religious ideologies, and political roles. The Pre-Columbian ceramic vessels presented in this catalogue are mainly from the Andean region of South America, which includes the modern countries of Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia. By analyzing technologies, forms, and decorative designs, author Yumi Park reveals the unique aesthetics, social stratifications, religious ideologies, and political roles within each culture. Ancient Andean potters expressed their native individualities by depicting the forms of warriors, deities, architecture, flora, fauna, and daily life on their ceramic vessels. Collector Sam Olden lived in Peru during the 1960s. After visiting various archaeological sites and museums, including the Rafael Larco Herrera Museum in Peru, he became enamored with the ceramic vessels of the ancient Andes. Olden later settled in Yazoo City, Mississippi, and began to build an extensive collection of ancient Andean ceramics, eventually making a large donation to the Mississippi Museum of Art. Because of his passion for these artifacts, the people of Mississippi are now afforded a window on the ancient Andean world. The Sam Olden Collection gives us tangible and visible evidence of the social activities, political events, and ideological beliefs of ancient Andean cultures.
Download or read book Ancient Andean Ceramics written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many societies in this course have used art to communicate ideas, especially state propaganda. But Andean elites took a different approach. Rather than creating massive stone sculptures, artists made usable, practical objects. This episodes hows you some of the beautiful pots created in a culture isolated from the Western tradition.
Download or read book Ceramics of Ancient America written by Yumi Park Huntington and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2018-09-12 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first volume to bring together archaeology, anthropology, and art history in the analysis of pre-Columbian pottery. While previous research on ceramic artifacts has been divided by these three disciplines, this volume shows how integrating these approaches provides new understandings of many different aspects of Ancient American societies. Contributors from a variety of backgrounds in these fields explore what ceramics can reveal about ancient social dynamics, trade, ritual, politics, innovation, iconography, and regional styles. Essays identify supernatural and humanistic beliefs through formal analysis of Lower Mississippi Valley "Great Serpent" effigy vessels and Ecuadorian depictions of the human figure. They discuss the cultural identity conveyed by imagery such as Andean head motifs, and they analyze symmetry in designs from locations including the American Southwest. Chapters also take diachronic approaches—methods that track change over time—to ceramics from Mexico’s Tarascan State and the Valley of Oaxaca, as well as from Maya and Toltec societies. This volume provides a much-needed multidisciplinary synthesis of current scholarship on Ancient American ceramics. It is a model of how different research perspectives can together illuminate the relationship between these material artifacts and their broader human culture. Contributors: | Dean Arnold | George J. Bey III | Michael Carrasco | David Dye | James Farmer | Gary Feinman | Amy Hirshman | Yumi Park Huntington | Johanna Minich | Shelia Pozorski and Thomas Pozorski | Jeff Price | Sarahh Scher | Dorothy Washburn | Robert F. Wald
Download or read book Art of the Ancient Andean Cultures written by Elizabeth Baquedano and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ceramics of Ancient Peru written by Christopher B. Donnan and published by University of California Los Angeles, Fowler Museum of Cultural History. This book was released on 1992 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Architectural Vessels of the Moche written by Juliet B. Wiersema and published by . This book was released on 2015-01-30 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adding an important new chapter to pre-Columbian art history, this volume is the first to assemble and analyze a comprehensive body of ancient Andean architectural representations, as well as the first that explores their connections to full-scale pre-Hispanic ritual architecture.
Download or read book Ceramic Analysis in the Andes written by Isabelle C. Druc and published by Deep University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-15 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ceramic Analysis in the Andes The panorama and diversity of research presented in this volume testify to the vitality of ceramic analysis in Andean archaeology, studies that are directed to answer questions that go far beyond the sourcing of raw materials. The different chapters written by leading specialists in the domain and younger investigators highlight a variety of mineral and chemical studies used to investigate socio-political and cultural questions, issues of political control, intra- and intervalley interactions, social identities, and expressions of cultural traditions in the ancient Andes. As well, this volume offers an overview of the sampling strategies and analytical techniques currently followed in the discipline, the diversity of paste types and geoenvironments per region, and expected mineral and chemical signatures in the study areas. The roots of this volume go back to the session titled "Characterization of Andean Ceramics" organized at the 2014 Society for American Archaeology (SAA) meeting in Austin Texas. The session meant to offer a perspective on the state of ceramic analysis conducted in the Andes, recent views about manufacture and circulation of wares in different regions, socio-political contexts in which these industries flourished, and technological traditions. 190 pages, 85 color figures, maps and diagrams, 10 chapters. Edited by Isabelle Druc
Download or read book Ancient Arts of the Andes written by Wendell Clark Bennett and published by New York : Museum of Modern Art. This book was released on 1954 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Pre-Historic treasures of gold and silver, intricately woven tapestries, delicately painted paper-thin ceramics, and monumental stone carvings. More than 400 priceless objects have been assembled from private and public collections in Latin America, Canada, and the United States for this exhibition which will present for the first time under one roof the finest examples of art produced by ancient civilizations which flourished in the Andean region from about 1200 B.C. until the Spanish Conquest in the 16th century."--Excerpt from press release (see link below).
Download or read book Ceramics of the Indigenous Cultures of South America written by Michael Glascock and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This cohesive edited volume showcases data collected from more than seven thousand ceramic artifacts including pottery, figurines, clay pipes, and other objects from sites across South America. Covering a time span from 900 BC to AD 1500, the essays by leading archaeologists working in South America illustrate the diversity of ceramic provenance investigations taking place in seven different countries. An introductory chapter provides a background for interpreting compositional data, and a final chapter offers a review of the individual projects. Students, scholars, and researchers in archaeological study on the interactions between the indigenous peoples of South America and studies of their ceramics will find this volume an invaluable reference.
Download or read book Ceramics of the Indigenous Cultures of South America written by Michael D. Glascock and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2019-03-15 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This cohesive edited volume showcases data collected from more than seven thousand ceramic artifacts including pottery, figurines, clay pipes, and other objects from sites across South America. Covering a time span from 900 BC to AD 1500, the essays by leading archaeologists working in South America illustrate the diversity of ceramic provenance investigations taking place in seven different countries. An introductory chapter provides a background for interpreting compositional data, and a final chapter offers a review of the individual projects. Students, scholars, and researchers in archaeological study on the interactions between the indigenous peoples of South America and studies of their ceramics will find this volume an invaluable reference.
Download or read book The Ancient Andean Village written by Kevin J. Vaughn and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although ancient civilizations in the Andes are rich in historyÑwith expansive empires, skilled artisans, and vast temple centersÑthe history of the Andean foothills on the south coast of present-day Peru is only now being unveiled. Nasca, a prehispanic society that flourished there from AD 1 to 750, is best known for its polychrome pottery, its enigmatic geoglyphs (the "Nasca Lines"), and its ceremonial center, Cahuachi, which was the seat of power in early Nasca. However, despite the fact that archaeologists have studied Nasca civilization for more than a century, until now they have not pieced together the daily lives of Nasca residents. With this book, Kevin Vaughn offers the first portrait of village life in this ancient Andean society. Vaughn is interested in how societies develop and change, in particular their subsistence and political economies, interactions between elites and commoners, and the ritual activities of everyday life. By focusing on one village, Marcaya, he not only illuminates the lives and relationships of its people but he also contributes to an understanding of the more general roles played by villages in the growth of increasingly complex societies in the Andes. By examining agency in local affairs, he is able for the first time to explore the nature of power in Nasca and how it may have changed over time. By studying village and household activities, Vaughn argues, we can begin to appreciate from the ground up such essential activities as production, consumption, and the ideologies revealed by ritualsÑand thereby gain fresh insights into ancient civilizations.
Download or read book Ecology and Ceramic Production in an Andean Community written by Dean E. Arnold and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-10-16 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ethnoarchaeological study looks at pottery production in a contemporary Peruvian Andean community.
Download or read book Ancient Andean Arts in the Collections of the Krannert Art Museum written by Alan Reed Sawyer and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sex Metaphor and Ideology in Moche Pottery of Ancient Peru written by Andrew David Turner and published by BAR International Series. This book was released on 2015 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paris Monographs in American Archaeology 41
Download or read book Ancient Peruvian Ceramics written by Alan Reed Sawyer and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 1966 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ancient Peruvian Ceramics written by Alan Reed Sawyer and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Andean Ceramics written by Izumi Shimada and published by University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. This book was released on 1998 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andean Ceramics brings together many important discoveries of the past decade, especially of production loci together with innovative methodologies for their analysis and interpretation. Each chapter is an up-to-date synthesis of one or more of these topics: production technologies, scale and organization of production, and analytical perspectives and methods.
