Image encounters : Moche murals and archaeo art history /
Moche murals of northern Peru represent one of the great, yet still largely unknown, artistic traditions of the ancient Americas. Created in an era without written scripts, these murals are key to understandings of Moche history, society, and culture. In this first comprehensive study on the subject...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Langue: | anglais |
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Austin :
University of Texas Press,
2022.
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| Édition: | First edition. |
| Collection: | Recovering languages and literacies of the Americas.
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| Accès en ligne: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7560/324264 |
Table des matières:
- Introduction : image encounters
- Chapter 1. Mural origins and coastal corporealities
- Chapter 2. Formulating traditions : ancestral divinities, Norcosteno design, and the aesthetics of replication in Moche mural art (200-650 CE)
- Chapter 3. Siting narratives : Moche mural painting and the condensation of a medium (650-850 CE)
- Chapter 4. Archaeo-iconology : an archaeology of image experience and response
- Conclusion : on the Huaca.