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Decoding Mimbres painting : ancient ceramics of the American Southwest

Title
Decoding Mimbres painting : ancient ceramics of the American Southwest / Tony Berlant and Evan Maurer ; with Julia Burtenshaw and Thomas Wynn ; exhibition curated by Tony Berlant and Evan Maurer ; co-curated by Nancy Thomas and Julia Burtenshaw.
Publication
  • Los Angeles, CA : Los Angeles County Museum of Art ; Munich ; New York : DelMonico Books/Prestel, 2018.
  • ©2018

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Additional Authors
  • Berlant, Anthony
  • Maurer, Evan M.
  • Los Angeles County Museum of Art, organizer, host institution.
Description
111 pages : color illustrations, map; 28 cm
Summary
"This generously illustrated book explores the pottery of the Mimbres people and offers new insight into its imagery. Named after a valley in what is now Southwestern New Mexico, the Mimbres culture flourished between the 9th and 12th centuries. Through the exploration of paintings on Mimbres bowls, this book offers revelations about the culture's worldview based on the patterns and shapes depicted in their pottery. Drawing on extensive research as well as photography of the flora and fauna that still thrive in the Mimbres valley, the authors make the case that the pottery's beautiful black-and-white paintings and highly intricate designs are abstractions of visual experiences--some seen in the natural world and others generated by trance-like states brought on by ingesting the datura plant. Presenting a distinctive new interpretation of the iconography of ancient Mimbres painted ceramics, this volume addresses Mimbres culture and how this past civilization lived and communicated with the spirit world"--
Subject
  • Mimbres culture > Exhibitions
  • Mimbres pottery > Exhibitions
  • Nature in art > Exhibitions
  • Visions in art > Exhibitions
  • ART / Native American
  • ART / Folk & Outsider Art
  • ART / Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General
  • Mimbres culture
  • Mimbres pottery
  • Nature in art
  • Visions in art
Genre/Form
Exhibition catalogs.
Note
  • Published in conjunction with the exhibition Decoding Mimbres Painting: Ancient Ceramics of the American Southwest at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, May 20, 2018-September 16, 2018.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 104-107).
Contents
Decoding Mimbres painting / Tony Berlant and Evan Maurer -- The Datura plant -- Datura pollinators -- Other plants -- The trance state experience -- Story bowls -- A lexicon of forms in the Mimbres Valley and beyond -- Identifying Mimbres artists.
Call Number
JQF 19-108
ISBN
  • 9783791357430
  • 3791357433
LCCN
2018000275
OCLC
1019839583
Title
Decoding Mimbres painting : ancient ceramics of the American Southwest / Tony Berlant and Evan Maurer ; with Julia Burtenshaw and Thomas Wynn ; exhibition curated by Tony Berlant and Evan Maurer ; co-curated by Nancy Thomas and Julia Burtenshaw.
Publisher
Los Angeles, CA : Los Angeles County Museum of Art ; Munich ; New York : DelMonico Books/Prestel, 2018.
Copyright Date
©2018
Type of Content
text
still image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 104-107).
Added Author
Berlant, Anthony, author, curator.
Maurer, Evan M., author, curator.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, organizer, host institution.
Research Call Number
JQF 19-108
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