Art, nature, and religion in the central Andes [electronic resource] : themes and variations from prehistory to present / Mary Strong.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Strong, Mary, 1947-

Series:

Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long series in Latin American and Latino art and culture.

Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long series in Latin American and Latin art and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indian art--Andes Region.

Indian art.

Indians of South America--Andes Region--Religion.

Indians of South America.

Indians of South America--Andes Region--History.

Indians of South America--Andes Region--Social life and customs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (369 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Austin : University of Texas Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

From prehistory to the present, the Indigenous peoples of the Andes have used a visual symbol system—that is, art—to express their sense of the sacred and its immanence in the natural world. Many visual motifs that originated prior to the Incas still appear in Andean art today, despite the onslaught of cultural disruption that native Andeans have endured over several centuries. Indeed, art has always been a unifying power through which Andeans maintain their spirituality, pride, and culture while resisting the oppression of the dominant society. In this book, Mary Strong takes a significantly new approach to Andean art that links prehistoric to contemporary forms through an ethnographic understanding of Indigenous Andean culture. In the first part of the book, she provides a broad historical survey of Andean art that explores how Andean religious concepts have been expressed in art and how artists have responded to cultural encounters and impositions, ranging from invasion and conquest to international labor migration and the internet. In the second part, Strong looks at eight contemporary art types—the scissors dance (danza de tijeras), home altars (retablos), carved gourds (mates), ceramics (ceramica), painted boards (tablas), weavings (textiles), tinware (hojalateria), and Huamanga stone carvings (piedra de Huamanga). She includes prehistoric and historic information about each art form, its religious meaning, the natural environment and sociopolitical processes that help to shape its expression, and how it is constructed or performed by today’s artists, many of whom are "ed in the book.

Contents:

pt. 1. Themes

pt. 2. Variations

pt. 3. Andean arts today.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-292-73572-3

OCLC:

785401180