A Sourcebook of Nasca Ceramic Iconography
Reading a Culture Through Its Art
Will be published approx. on 1. August 2009
Book
Paperback/Softback
274 pages
978-1-58729-829-5 (ISBN)
Description
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, and numerous abstract anthropomorphic creatures whose form and meaning are sometimes incomprehensible. This book describes the major artistic motifs of this stunning polychrome pottery.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Iowa
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
40 colour photos, 333 drawings, 2 maps
Dimensions
Height: 279 mm
Width: 215 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
678 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-58729-829-5 (9781587298295)
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Donald Proulx became fascinated by Nasca pottery forty-five years ago, when he was a student hired to catalog a collection of Peruvian artifacts. Over the years, although his research expanded to include site surveys and settlement pattern studies, he never lost his passion for Nasca ceramics. He has written extensively on all facets of Nasca culture, including Local Differences and Time Differences in Nasca Pottery, Nasca Gravelots in the Uhle Collection from the Ica Valley, and (with Helaine Silverman) The Nasca. He is professor of anthropology emeritus, University of Massachusetts at Amherst.