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Art and vision at Inca 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.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 249 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Other Title:
- Art & Vision in the Inca Empire
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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.
- 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:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-316-28980-X
- 1-316-31044-2
- 1-316-32382-X
- 1-107-47615-1
- 1-316-33050-8
- 1-316-33384-1
- 1-316-32716-7
- 1-316-32046-4
- 1-316-14606-5
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