A Sourcebook of Nasca Ceramic Iconography
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A Sourcebook of Nasca Ceramic Iconography

Reading a Culture through Its Art

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A Sourcebook of Nasca Ceramic Iconography

Reading a Culture through Its Art

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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 as well as numerous abstract anthropomorphic creatures whose form and meaning are sometimes incomprehensible today. In this first book-length treatment of Nasca ceramic iconography to appear in English, drawing upon an archive of more than eight thousand Nasca vessels from over 150 public and private collections, Donald Proulx systematically describes the major artistic motifs of this stunning polychrome pottery, interprets the major themes displayed on this pottery, and then uses these descriptions and his stimulating interpretations to analyze Nasca society. After beginning with an overview of Nasca culture and an explanation of the style and chronology of Nasca pottery, Proulx moves to the heart of his book: a detailed classification and description of the entire range of supernatural and secular themes in Nasca iconography along with a fresh and distinctive interpretation of these themes. Linking the pots and their iconography to the archaeologically known Nasca society, he ends with a thorough and accessible examination of this ancient culture viewed through the lens of ceramic iconography. Although these static images can never be fully understood, by animating their themes and meanings Proulx reconstructs the lifeways of this complex society.

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Publisher
University Of Iowa Press
Year
2009
ISBN
9781587297533
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Sociology
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Preface
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. One. Overview of the Nasca Culture
  5. Two. Nasca Pottery and Its Artistic Canons
  6. Three. The Discovery of the Nasca Styleand Its Chronological Placement
  7. Four. Approaches to the Interpretationof Nasca Iconography
  8. Five. A Description and Interpretation of theMajor Themes in Nasca Ceramic Iconography
  9. Six. New Insights on Nasca Society
  10. Bibliography
  11. Index