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Andean art : visual expression and its relation to Andean beliefs and values

Title: Andean art : visual expression and its relation to Andean beliefs and values / edited by Penny Dransart.
Publication: Aldershot : Avebury, [1995], ©1995.

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Additional Authors

Dransart, Penny.

Description

vi, 317 pages; 23 cm.

Summary

The aim of the book is to explore various facets of artistic expression (ranging temporally from four thousand years ago to the present day) in the Andean regions of South America, based on themes: social contexts, cultural expressions, recontextualisation, construction and meaning, and the role of art in the creation and animation of Andean landscapes.
The various authors also move towards an archaeology, anthropology, or art history of visual expression that allows for an assessment of self-critical and reflexive developments on the part of the people who produced the artistic works under consideration. These visual worlds they created and continue to create make art in the Andes a fruitful and exciting field of study.

Series Statement

Worldwide archaeology series

Uniform Title

Worldwide archaeology series.

Subject

Note

"... revised versions of papers presented at the symposium 'Arte Andino - expresión visual y su relación con las creencias y valores andinos', organised ... under the auspices of the forty sixth [or rather, forty seventh] International Congress of Americanists at Tulane University, New Orleans, USA, in July 1990" - editor's note.

Contents

1. Introduction: Visual Arts in the Andes / Penny Dransart -- 2. The Inka's Mask: Dramatisation of the Past in Indigenous Colonial Processions / Luis Millones -- 3. From Sanmarcos to Retablo: the Ayacucho Retable as a Social Chronicle / Emma Maria Sordo -- 4. Art in the Snuff Trays of San Pedro de Atacama (Northern Chile) / Agustin Llagostera Martinez -- 5. Exploring the San Pedro de Atacama / Tiwanaku Relationship / Constantino M. Torres and William J. Conklin -- 6. From Pachamama to the Virgin Mary: What the Spanish Never Saw / Carol Damian -- 7. The Art Sign and the Craft Sign / Jaime Echeverri and Clemencia Plazas -- 8. Andean Renaissance: Nascent American Language / Karen Lizarraga -- 9. Two Options for Achieving a Visual Image in Precolumbian Textile Art / Paulina Brugnoli Bailoni and Soledad Hoces de la Guardia -- 10. Inner Worlds and the Event of a Thread in Isluga, Northern Chile / Penny Dransart --
11. Art, Agriculture, Warfare and the Guano Islands / Elizabeth P. Benson -- 12. The Resources of Art: Rock Art and Formative Settlement-subsistence Systems in the Argentine Southern Puna / Daniel E. Olivera and Maria Mercedes Podesta -- 13. Seeing God in Mid-Colonial Peru / Kenneth R. Mills.

ISBN

1856287122

LCCN

gb 96009874

OCLC

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries