Containing the Divine: Ancient Peruvian Pots

Containing the Divine: Ancient Peruvian Pots
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Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Total Pages : 52
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Synopsis Containing the Divine: Ancient Peruvian Pots by : Hugo C. Ikehara-Tsukayama

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.

Ancient Peruvian Ceramics

Ancient Peruvian Ceramics
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Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Total Pages : 151
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ISBN-10 : 9780870990373
ISBN-13 : 0870990373
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Synopsis Ancient Peruvian Ceramics by : Alan Reed Sawyer

Golden Kingdoms

Golden Kingdoms
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Publisher : Getty Publications
Total Pages : 331
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ISBN-10 : 9781606065488
ISBN-13 : 1606065483
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Synopsis Golden Kingdoms by : Joanne Pillsbury

This volume accompanies a major international loan exhibition featuring more than three hundred works of art, many rarely or never before seen in the United States. It traces the development of gold working and other luxury arts in the Americas from antiquity until the arrival of Europeans in the early sixteenth century. Presenting spectacular works from recent excavations in Peru, Colombia, Panama, Costa Rica, Guatemala, and Mexico, this exhibition focuses on specific places and times—crucibles of innovation—where artistic exchange, rivalry, and creativity led to the production of some of the greatest works of art known from the ancient Americas. The book and exhibition explore not only artistic practices but also the historical, cultural, social, and political conditions in which luxury arts were produced and circulated, alongside their religious meanings and ritual functions. Golden Kingdoms creates new understandings of ancient American art through a thematic exploration of indigenous ideas of value and luxury. Central to the book is the idea of the exchange of materials and ideas across regions and across time: works of great value would often be transported over long distances, or passed down over generations, in both cases attracting new audiences and inspiring new artists. The idea of exchange is at the intellectual heart of this volume, researched and written by twenty scholars based in the United States and Latin America.

Ritual Violence in the Ancient Andes

Ritual Violence in the Ancient Andes
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Publisher : University of Texas Press
Total Pages : 487
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ISBN-10 : 9781477310588
ISBN-13 : 1477310584
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Synopsis Ritual Violence in the Ancient Andes by : Haagen D. Klaus

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.

The Ceramic Art

The Ceramic Art
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Total Pages : 528
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015016850904
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Synopsis The Ceramic Art by : Jennie J. Young

Offerings for the Afterlife

Offerings for the Afterlife
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Total Pages : 167
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ISBN-10 : 965909552X
ISBN-13 : 9789659095520
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Synopsis Offerings for the Afterlife by : Alfredo Rosenzweig

Jade in Ancient Costa Rica

Jade in Ancient Costa Rica
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Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Total Pages : 129
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ISBN-10 : 9780870998782
ISBN-13 : 0870998781
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Synopsis Jade in Ancient Costa Rica by : Mark Miller Graham

Published in conjunction with its namesake Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibition (September 16, 1998-February 28, 1999), this finely illustrated catalogue providing context to pre-Columbian works of jade tempts one to see the originals from Costa Rica's Museo del Jade Marco Fidel Tristan Castro and elsewhere. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

The Uhle Pottery Collections from Nazca

The Uhle Pottery Collections from Nazca
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Total Pages : 672
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ISBN-10 : UCSC:32106006037896
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Synopsis The Uhle Pottery Collections from Nazca by : Anna Hadwick Gayton

Guaman Poma

Guaman Poma
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Publisher : University of Texas Press
Total Pages : 260
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ISBN-10 : 9780292792357
ISBN-13 : 0292792352
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Synopsis Guaman Poma by : Rolena Adorno

In the midst of native people's discontent following Spanish conquest, a native Andean born after the fall of the Incas took up the pen to protest Spanish rule. Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala wrote his Nueva corónica y buen gobierno to inform Philip III of Spain about the evils of colonialism and the need for governmental and societal reform. By examining Guaman Poma's verbal and visual engagement with the institutions of Western art and culture, Rolena Adorno shows how he performed a comprehensive critique of the colonialist discourse of religion, political theory, and history. She argues that Guaman Poma's work chronicles the emergence of a uniquely Latin American voice, characterized by the articulation of literary art and politics. Following the initial appearance of Guaman Poma: Writing and Resistance in Colonial Peru, the 1990s witnessed the creation of a range of new studies that underscore the key role of the Nueva corónica y buen gobierno in facilitating our understanding of the Andean and Spanish colonial pasts. At the same time, the documentary record testifying to Guaman Poma's life and work has expanded dramatically, thanks to the publication of long-known but previously inaccessible drawings and documents. In a new, lengthy introduction to this second edition, Adorno shows how recent scholarship from a variety of disciplinary perspectives sheds new light on Guaman Poma and his work, and she offers an important new assessment of his biography in relation to the creation of the Nueva corónica y buen gobierno.