A sourcebook of Nasca ceramic iconography : reading a culture through its art /

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For almost eight hundred years (100 BC-AD 650) Nasca artists modeled and painted the plants, animals, birds, and fish of their homeland on Peru's south coast as well as numerous abstract anthropomorphic creatures whose form and meaning are sometimes incomprehensible today. In this first book-le...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Proulx, Donald A., 1939- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, ©2006.
Temas:
Nazca pottery > Themes, motives.
Nazca culture.
Idols and images > Peru.
Céramique de Nazca > Thèmes, motifs.
Culture de Nazca.
Idoles et images > Pérou.
HISTORY.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Antiquities
Idols and images
Nazca culture
Peru > Antiquities.
Pérou > Antiquités.
Peru
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:For almost eight hundred years (100 BC-AD 650) Nasca artists modeled and painted the plants, animals, birds, and fish of their homeland on Peru's south coast as well as numerous abstract anthropomorphic creatures whose form and meaning are sometimes incomprehensible today. In this first book-length treatment of Nasca ceramic iconography to appear in English, drawing upon an archive of more than eight thousand Nasca vessels from over 150 public and private collections, Donald Proulx systematically describes the major artistic motifs of this stunning polychrome pottery, interprets the major them.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xii, 236 pages, 15 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), maps
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-228) and index.
ISBN:9781587297533
1587297531

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