Pre-Columbian Art of the Caribbean

Pre-Columbian Art of the Caribbean

Author: Lawrence Waldron

Publisher: University Press of Florida

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781683400547

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Introduction -- Pre-Columbian peoples of the Caribbean -- Ceramics of the eastern Caribbean -- Ceramics of the Greater Antilles -- Rock art -- Sculpture -- Personal adornment -- Epilogue: Living legacies


Collecting for a New World

Collecting for a New World

Author: John W. Hessler

Publisher: Giles

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781911282396

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A completely new and revealing story of Pre- and Post-Columbian art as told through over sixty extraordinary artefacts now in the Jay I. Kislak Collection at the Library of Congress.


A Guide to Pre-Columbian Art

A Guide to Pre-Columbian Art

Author: Jean Paul Barbier

Publisher: Skira

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 116

ISBN-13:

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This guide provides a closer view of the pre-Hispanic world, analysing the origins and decline of the greatest ancient American civilisations.


The Pottery Figurines of Pre-Columbian Peru

The Pottery Figurines of Pre-Columbian Peru

Author: Alexandra Morgan

Publisher: British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 632

ISBN-13: 9781407315232

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This is thelast volume of a comprehensive catalogue of Peruvian Pottery Figurines, fromtheir first appearance around 3,500 BC to the Spanish Conquest in the 16thcentury. The figurines are described in detail and classified by region,chronologically and set within the different cultures to which they belong.Volume I, The Figurines of the North Coast (BAR S1941), was published in2009; Volume III, The Figurines of South Coast, the Highlands and the Selva(BAR S2441), in 2012.


Casas Grandes Pre-Columbian Pottery Decoded

Casas Grandes Pre-Columbian Pottery Decoded

Author: Ernest H. Christman

Publisher: Tutorial Press

Published: 2002-01-01

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 9780912329161

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Explains the symbols on 320 ancient Casas Grandes pottery pieces, along with a few Mimbres and neighboring cultures' pottery, while examining various subjects in inigenous Mesoamerican thought, including myths of creation, gods, humankind, and the universe.


Taíno

Taíno

Author: Museo del Barrio (New York, N.Y.)

Publisher:

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13:

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Organized by El Museo del Barrio in New York to coincide with a major exhibition, this is the first comprehensive English-language publication on the fascinating legacy of Taiacute;no art and culture. Showcasing over one hundred rare and beautiful ceremonial and domestic artworks and individual masterpieces of this ancient culture -- produced in Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Cuba, Haiti, and the Bahamas between A.D. 1200 and 1500 --Taiacute;noincludes examples of finely detailed and polished sculptures carved in wood, precious ornaments of shell and bone, and ceramics decorated with animals, birds, and intricate geometric motifs. The contributors include ten of the foremost scholars of pre-Columbian culture and art, and an appendix features writings from Spanish explorers who had contact with the Taiacute;no. Of Arawak descent, the Taiacute;no -- whose ancestors migrated to the Caribbean from the Amazon Basin in South America during the sixth century -- were the first people encountered by Christopher Columbus. Although they ceased to exist as an autonomous society within sixty years of the arrival of Spanish colonizers, the Taiacute;no -- skilled agriculturists and navigators and accomplished weavers, potters, and carvers -- developed a complex political, religious, and social system, and made a substantial contribution to the biological, cultural, and linguistic makeup of large areas of the Caribbean. To this date, Caribbean communities in the Antilles and in New York and other large American cities exhibit the survival of Taiacute;no practices in their worldviews, religious beliefs, language, music, and food.


Ceramics of Ancient America

Ceramics of Ancient America

Author: Yumi Park Huntington

Publisher: University Press of Florida

Published: 2018-09-12

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 0813052416

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This is the first volume to bring together archaeology, anthropology, and art history in the analysis of pre-Columbian pottery. While previous research on ceramic artifacts has been divided by these three disciplines, this volume shows how integrating these approaches provides new understandings of many different aspects of Ancient American societies. Contributors from a variety of backgrounds in these fields explore what ceramics can reveal about ancient social dynamics, trade, ritual, politics, innovation, iconography, and regional styles. Essays identify supernatural and humanistic beliefs through formal analysis of Lower Mississippi Valley "Great Serpent" effigy vessels and Ecuadorian depictions of the human figure. They discuss the cultural identity conveyed by imagery such as Andean head motifs, and they analyze symmetry in designs from locations including the American Southwest. Chapters also take diachronic approaches—methods that track change over time—to ceramics from Mexico’s Tarascan State and the Valley of Oaxaca, as well as from Maya and Toltec societies. This volume provides a much-needed multidisciplinary synthesis of current scholarship on Ancient American ceramics. It is a model of how different research perspectives can together illuminate the relationship between these material artifacts and their broader human culture. Contributors: | Dean Arnold | George J. Bey III | Michael Carrasco | David Dye | James Farmer | Gary Feinman | Amy Hirshman | Yumi Park Huntington | Johanna Minich | Shelia Pozorski and Thomas Pozorski | Jeff Price | Sarahh Scher | Dorothy Washburn | Robert F. Wald


Designs from Pre-Columbian Mexico

Designs from Pre-Columbian Mexico

Author: Jorge Enciso

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 1971-06-01

Total Pages: 127

ISBN-13: 0486227944

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Characterizes ancient Mexican art through black-and-white reproductions of original motifs discovered in archaeological digs