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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Proulx, Donald A., 1939- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, ©2006.
Subjects:
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
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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