A sourcebook of Nasca ceramic iconography : reading a culture through its art / Donald A. Proulx.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Proulx, Donald A., 1939-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nazca pottery--Themes, motives.

Nazca pottery.

Nazca culture.

Idols and images--Peru.

Idols and images.

Peru--Antiquities.

Peru.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (267 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

For almost eight hundred years (100 BC-AD 650) Nasca artists modeled and painted the plants, animals, birds, and fish of their homeland on Peru's south coast as well as numerous abstract anthropomorphic creatures whose form and meaning are sometimes incomprehensible today. In this first book-length treatment of Nasca ceramic iconography to appear in English, drawing upon an archive of more than eight thousand Nasca vessels from over 150 public and private collections, Donald Proulx systematically describes the major artistic motifs of this stunning polychrome pottery, interprets the major them

Contents:

Overview of the Nasca culture

Nasca pottery and its artistic canons

The discovery of the Nasca style and its chronological placement

Approaches to the interpretation of Nasca iconography

A description and interpretation of the major themes in Nasca ceramic iconography

New insights on Nasca society.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-228) and index.

ISBN:

9781587297533

1587297531

OCLC:

297115933