Tiwanaku : papers from the 2005 Mayer Center Symposium at the Denver Art Museum / edited by Margaret Young-Sánchez.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Young-Sánchez, Margaret.

Frederick and Jan Mayer Center for Pre-Columbian and Spanish Colonial Art.

Denver Art Museum

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Conference Name:

Mayer Center Symposium (2005 : Denver Art Museum)

Series:

Symposium series (Frederick and Jan Mayer Center for Pre-Columbian and Spanish Colonial Art) ; 2005.

Symposium series / Mayer Center for Pre-Columbian & Spanish Colonial Art at the Denver Art Museum

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tiwanaku culture--Congresses.

Tiwanaku culture.

Excavations (Archaeology).

Tiwanaku pottery.

Tiwanaku Site (Bolivia)--Congresses.

Tiwanaku Site (Bolivia).

Tiwanaku pottery--Congresses.

Tiwanaku River Valley (Bolivia)--Antiquities--Congresses.

Tiwanaku River Valley (Bolivia).

Excavations (Archaeology)--Bolivia--Tiwanaku River Valley--Congresses.

Bolivia--Tiwanaku River Valley.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

272 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 28 cm.

Place of Publication:

[Denver, CO] : Denver Art Museum, [2009]

Contents:

The development of the ritual core of Tiwanaku / Alexei Vranich

The power of an icon : references to the Gateway of the Sun from the 19th century to the present / Georgia de Havenon

Descendants of the sun : calendars, myth, and the Tiwanaku state / Leonardo Benitez

Tiwanaku iconography and the calendar / R.T. Zuidema

New perspectives on Tiwanaku iconography / Christiane Clados

The iconic dimension in Tiwanaku art / William J. Conklin

Royal statues, staff gods, and the religious ideology of the prehistoric state of Tiwanaku / Krysztof Makowski Hanula

SAIS, the origin, development, and dating of Tiahuanaco-Huari iconography / William H. Isbell and Patricia J. Knobloch

Wari and Tiwanaku borderlands / Patrick Ryan Williams

The bird and the camelid (or deer) : a ranked pair of Wari tapestry tunics / Susan E. Bergh

From Tiwanaku to Machu Picchu : ushnus and the architecture of creation / John Hoopes.

Notes:

Papers originally presented at a symposium sponsored by the Frederick and Jan Mayer Center for pre-Columbian and Spanish Colonial Art, held Jan. 14-15, 2005 at the Denver Art Museum, in conjuction with the exhibition entitled Tiwanaku : ancestors of the Inca.

"A publication of the Frederick and Jan Mayer Center for Pre-Columbian and Spanish Colonial Art at the Denver Art Museum."

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

0806199725

9780806199726

OCLC:

298513342