Art and vision in the Inca empire : Andeans and Europeans at Cajamarca / Adam Herring, Southern Methodist University.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Herring, Adam, 1967- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Inca art.

Art and society--Andes Region--History--16th century.

Art and society.

Art--Political aspects--Andes Region--History--16th century.

Art.

Art--Psychology.

Cajamarca, Battle of, Cajamarca, Peru, 1532.

Art--Political aspects.

History.

Andes Region.

Physical Description:

xii, 249 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2015.

Summary:

"In 1500 CE, the Inca empire covered most of South America's Andean region. The empire's leaders first met Europeans on November 15, 1532, when a large Inca army confronted Francisco Pizarro's band of adventurers in the highland Andean valley of Cajamarca, Peru. At few other times in its history would the Inca royal leadership so aggressively showcase its moral authority and political power. Glittering and truculent, what Europeans witnessed at Inca Cajamarca compels revised understandings of pre-contact Inca visual art, spatial practice, and bodily expression. This book takes a fresh look at the encounter at Cajamarca, using the episode to offer a new, art-historical interpretation of pre-contact Inca culture and power. Adam Herring's study offers close readings of Inca and Andean art in a variety of media: architecture and landscape, geoglyphs, sculpture, textiles, ceramics, featherwork, and metalwork. The volume is richly illustrated with over sixty color images"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction

1. Llamas and the logic of the gaze

2. Under Atawallpa's eyes

3. Chessboard landscape

4. Quri: a place in the sun

Conclusion: fount of beauty.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-246) and index.

ISBN:

9781107094369

1107094364

OCLC:

907189774

Publisher Number:

40025045014

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