Research Catalog

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. http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/orm http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/his

Description

111 pages; 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"--

Subjects

• Nature in art
• Visions in art
• Nature in art > Exhibitions
• ART / Folk & Outsider Art
• Exhibition catalogs
• Mimbres pottery > Exhibitions
• Mimbres culture > Exhibitions
• ART / Native American
• ART / Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General
• Visions in art > Exhibitions

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.

ISBN

• 9783791357430
• 3791357433

LCCN

2018000275

OCLC

• on1019839583
• 1019839583
• SCSB-9069020

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries