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Art and vision in the Inca empire : Andeans and Europeans at Cajamarca
- Title
- Art and vision in the Inca empire : Andeans and Europeans at Cajamarca / Adam Herring, Southern Methodist University.
- Author
- Herring, Adam, 1967-
- Publication
- New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
- Supplementary Content
- Cover image
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JQF 15-791 | Schwarzman Building - Art & Architecture Room 300 |
Details
- Description
- xii, 249 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps; 27 cm
- Summary
- "In 1500 CE, the Inca empire covered most of South America's Andean region. The empire's leaders first met Europeans on November 15, 1532, when a large Inca army confronted Francisco Pizarro's band of adventurers in the highland Andean valley of Cajamarca, Peru. At few other times in its history would the Inca royal leadership so aggressively showcase its moral authority and political power. Glittering and truculent, what Europeans witnessed at Inca Cajamarca compels revised understandings of pre-contact Inca visual art, spatial practice, and bodily expression. This book takes a fresh look at the encounter at Cajamarca, using the episode to offer a new, art-historical interpretation of pre-contact Inca culture and power. Adam Herring's study offers close readings of Inca and Andean art in a variety of media: architecture and landscape, geoglyphs, sculpture, textiles, ceramics, featherwork, and metalwork. The volume is richly illustrated with over sixty color images"--
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-246) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction -- 1. Llamas and the logic of the gaze -- 2. Under Atawallpa's eyes -- 3. Chessboard landscape -- 4. Quri: a place in the sun -- Conclusion: fount of beauty.
- Call Number
- JQF 15-791
- ISBN
- 9781107094369
- 1107094364
- LCCN
- 2014048689
- 40025045014
- OCLC
- 907189774
- Author
- Herring, Adam, 1967- author.
- Title
- Art and vision in the Inca empire : Andeans and Europeans at Cajamarca / Adam Herring, Southern Methodist University.
- Publisher
- New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
- Type of Content
- textstill image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-246) and index.
- Connect to:
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40025045014
- Research Call Number
- JQF 15-791