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
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Overview of the Nasca culture
  • Nasca pottery and its artistic canons
  • The discovery of the Nasca style and its chronological placement
  • Approaches to the interpretation of Nasca iconography
  • A description and interpretation of the major themes in Nasca ceramic iconography
  • New insights on Nasca society.

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