Image encounters : Moche murals and archaeo art history
Introduction: Image encounters -- Mural origins and coastal corporealities -- Ancestral divinities, Norcosteño design, and the aesthetics of replication in Moche mural art (200-650 CE) -- Siting narratives: Moche mural painting and the condensation of a medium (650-850 CE) -- Archaeo-iconology: an...
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| Document Type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Austin
: University of Texas Press
, 2022
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| Edition: | First edition |
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| Online Access: | Inhaltsverzeichnis |
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Image encounters Rezensiert in: [Rezension von: Lisa Trever, Image encounters, Moche murals and Archaeo art history] |
| Author Notes: | Lisa Trever |
| Summary: | Introduction: Image encounters -- Mural origins and coastal corporealities -- Ancestral divinities, Norcosteño design, and the aesthetics of replication in Moche mural art (200-650 CE) -- Siting narratives: Moche mural painting and the condensation of a medium (650-850 CE) -- Archaeo-iconology: an archaeology of image experience and response -- Conclusions. "In this book, Lisa Trever develops an interdisciplinary methodology ("archaeo-art history") to interpret artworks located in deep history, long before the use of written scripts. In order to "read" these murals, scholars must be sensitive to the material evidence and visual perception in deciphering these images. This is the first truly comprehensive study of Moche murals of northern Peru, which represent one of the great, still largely unknown artistic traditions of the ancient Americas, as well as the first art historical analysis of newly discovered murals at the site of Pañamarca that make a striking aesthetic break from earlier Moche sites. Trever also endeavors to place Moche mural art within the broader South American contexts of deeply ancient (ca. 5000 BCE) Pacific coastal traditions of bodily image-making and figural "graffiti.""-- |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Physical Description: | x, 228 Seiten Illustrationen, Pläne |
| ISBN: | 9781477324264 9781477324271 |
