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Casas Grandes and the ceramic art of the ancient Southwest / Richard F. Townsend, editor ; with essays by Ken Kokrda, Barbara Moulard, and Richard F. Townsend.

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Casas Grandes and the ceramic art of the ancient Southwest / Richard F. Townsend, editor ; with essays by Ken Kokrda, Barbara Moulard, and Richard F. Townsend.
Publication
Chicago, Ill. : The Art Institute of Chicago ; New Haven : Yale University Press, c2005.

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Additional Authors
  • Townsend, Richard F.
  • Kokrda, Ken.
  • Moulard, Barbara L.
  • Art Institute of Chicago
Description
208 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps, plans; 29 cm.
Summary
"This illustrated catalogue focuses on the ceramic works of the Casas Grandes region of northwest Mexico, which flourished at the ancient site of Paquime, around A.D. 1280-1450." "In the accompanying essays, expert art historians and an artist-teacher discuss the complex imagery of approximately 80 Casas Grandes vessels with 60 pieces representing other major styles of the Greater Southwest. Superb examples show polychromatic designs of real and mythological animals, together with abstract human figures and remarkably varied geometries, demonstrating the imaginative complexity and exceptional achievement of the Casas Grandes potters. Certain motifs reflect affinities with distant Mesoamerica, yet the authors show that these forms were absorbed into a visual vocabulary that reflected the unique artistic and cosmological outlook of Casas Grandes, within the native Southwestern cultural tradition."--BOOK JACKET.
Subject
  • Casas Grandes pottery > Exhibitions
  • Indian pottery > Mexico > Exhibitions
  • Indian pottery > Southwest, New > Exhibitions
  • Casas Grandes Site (Mexico) > Exhibitions
  • Mexico > Antiquities > Exhibitions
  • Southwest, New > Antiquities > Exhibitions
Genre/Form
  • exhibition catalogs.
  • Exhibition catalogs
  • Catalogues d'exposition.
Note
  • "Published in conjunction with the exhibition Casas Grandes and the ceramic art of the ancient Southwest, organized by and held at the Art Institute of Chicago from April 2 to June 18, 2006."--T.p. verso.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 204-208).
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Casas Grandes in the art of the ancient Southwest / by Richard F. Townsend -- Archaism and emulation in Casas Grandes painted pottery / by Barbara L. Moulard -- Approaching Casas Grandes / by Ken Kokrda -- Plate section.
ISBN
  • 0300111487 (cloth)
  • 0865592209 (paper)
  • 9780300111484
OCLC
  • 61702217
  • SCSB-12380263
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library