The Art And Archaeology Of The Moche

Author : Steve Bourget,Kimberly L. Jones
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2009-06-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780292783195

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The Art and Archaeology of the Moche by Steve Bourget,Kimberly L. Jones Pdf

Renowned for their monumental architecture and rich visual culture, the Moche inhabited the north coast of Peru during the Early Intermediate Period (AD 100-800). Archaeological discoveries over the past century and the dissemination of Moche artifacts to museums around the world have given rise to a widespread and continually increasing fascination with this complex culture, which expressed its beliefs about the human and supernatural worlds through finely crafted ceramic and metal objects of striking realism and visual sophistication. In this standard-setting work, an international, multidisciplinary team of scholars who are at the forefront of Moche research present a state-of-the-art overview of Moche culture. The contributors address various issues of Moche society, religion, and material culture based on multiple lines of evidence and methodologies, including iconographic studies, archaeological investigations, and forensic analyses. Some of the articles present the results of long-term studies of major issues in Moche iconography, while others focus on more specifically defined topics such as site studies, the influence of El Niño/Southern Oscillation on Moche society, the nature of Moche warfare and sacrifice, and the role of Moche visual culture in decoding social and political frameworks.

Author : Joanne Pillsbury
Publisher : Ngw-Stud Hist Art
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Architecture
ISBN : PSU:000058314722

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Moche Art and Archaeology in Ancient Peru by Joanne Pillsbury Pdf

This volume explores the art and archaeology of the Moche, who created impressive monuments and metal objects centuries before the rise of the Inca. A major theme of the volume is how the visual arts and political representation are connected.

Author : Margaret Ann Jackson
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780826343659

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Moche Art and Visual Culture in Ancient Peru by Margaret Ann Jackson Pdf

This multidisciplinary study analyzes the visual, linguistic, and cultural significance of the imagery used by the Moche in their ceramics and murals.

Author : Lisa Trever
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-11
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781477324264

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Image Encounters by Lisa Trever Pdf

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, Lisa Trever develops an interdisciplinary methodology of “archaeo art history” to examine how ancient histories of art can be written without texts, boldly inverting the typical relationship of art to archaeology. Trever argues that early coastal artistic traditions cannot be reduced uncritically to interpretations based in much later Inca histories of the Andean highlands. Instead, the author seeks the origins of Moche mural art, and its emphasis on figuration, in the deep past of the Pacific coast of South America. Image Encounters shows how formal transformations in Moche mural art, before and after the seventh century, were part of broader changes to the work that images were made to perform at Huacas de Moche, El Brujo, Pañamarca, and elsewhere in an increasingly complex social and political world. In doing so, this book reveals alternative evidentiary foundations for histories of art and visual experience.

Author : Lisa Trever
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02-08
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781477324295

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Image Encounters by Lisa Trever Pdf

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, Lisa Trever develops an interdisciplinary methodology of “archaeo art history” to examine how ancient histories of art can be written without texts, boldly inverting the typical relationship of art to archaeology. Trever argues that early coastal artistic traditions cannot be reduced uncritically to interpretations based in much later Inca histories of the Andean highlands. Instead, the author seeks the origins of Moche mural art, and its emphasis on figuration, in the deep past of the Pacific coast of South America. Image Encounters shows how formal transformations in Moche mural art, before and after the seventh century, were part of broader changes to the work that images were made to perform at Huacas de Moche, El Brujo, Pañamarca, and elsewhere in an increasingly complex social and political world. In doing so, this book reveals alternative evidentiary foundations for histories of art and visual experience.

Author : Mary Weismantel
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781477323212

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Playing with Things by Mary Weismantel Pdf

More than a thousand years ago on the north coast of Peru, Indigenous Moche artists created a large and significant corpus of sexually explicit ceramic works of art. They depicted a diversity of sex organs and sex acts, and an array of solitary and interconnected human and nonhuman bodies. To the modern eye, these Moche “sex pots,” as Mary Weismantel calls them, are lively and provocative but also enigmatic creations whose import to their original owners seems impossible to grasp. In Playing with Things, Weismantel shows that there is much to be learned from these ancient artifacts, not merely as inert objects from a long-dead past but as vibrant Indigenous things, alive in their own human temporality. From a new materialist perspective, she fills the gaps left by other analyses of the sex pots in pre-Columbian studies, where sexuality remains marginalized, and in sexuality studies, where non-Western art is largely absent. Taking a decolonial approach toward an archaeology of sexuality and breaking with long-dominant iconographic traditions, this book explores how the “pots play jokes, make babies, give power, and hold water,” considering the sex pots as actual ceramic bodies that interact with fleshly bodies, now and in the ancient past. A beautifully written study that will be welcomed by students as well as specialists, Playing with Things is a model for archaeological and art historical engagement with the liberating power of queer theory and Indigenous studies.

Author : Jeffrey Quilter
Publisher : Peabody Museum Press
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780873654067

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The Moche of Ancient Peru by Jeffrey Quilter Pdf

Quilter utilizes the Peabody's collection as a means to investigate how the Moche used various media, particularly ceramics, to convey messages about their lives and beliefs. His presentation provides a critical examination and rethinking of many of the commonly held interpretations of Moche artifacts and their imagery. It also raises important questions about art production and its role in this and other ancient and modern cultures. --

Author : Elizabeth P. Benson
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012-07-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780292742635

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The Worlds of the Moche on the North Coast of Peru by Elizabeth P. Benson Pdf

The Moche, or Mochica, created an extraordinary civilization on the north coast of Peru for most of the first millennium AD. Although they had no written language with which to record their history and beliefs, the Moche built enormous ceremonial edifices and embellished them with mural paintings depicting supernatural figures and rituals. Highly skilled Moche artisans crafted remarkable ceramic vessels, which they painted with figures and scenes or modeled like sculpture, and mastered metallurgy in gold, silver, and copper to make impressive symbolic ornaments. They also wove textiles that were complex in execution and design. A senior scholar renowned for her discoveries about the Moche, Elizabeth P. Benson published the first English-language monograph on the subject in 1972. Now in this volume, she draws on decades of knowledge, as well as the findings of other researchers, to offer a grand overview of all that is currently known about the Moche. Touching on all significant aspects of Moche culture, she covers such topics as their worldview and ritual life, ceremonial architecture and murals, art and craft, supernatural beings, government and warfare, and burial and the afterlife. She demonstrates that the Moche expressed, with symbolic language in metal and clay, what cultures in other parts of the world presented in writing. Indeed, Benson asserts that the accomplishments of the Moche are comparable to those of their Mesoamerica contemporaries, the Maya, which makes them one of the most advanced civilizations of pre-Columbian America.

Author : Christopher B. Donnan,Donald McClelland,Donna McClelland
Publisher : Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2007-12-31
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781950446025

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Moche Fineline Painting From San Jose De Moro by Christopher B. Donnan,Donald McClelland,Donna McClelland Pdf

Moche civilization flourished on the north coast of Peru from AD 200 to 800. Although the Moche had no writing system, they left a vivid artistic record of their beliefs and activities on intricately painted ceramic vessels, several thousand of which are scattered in museums and private collections throughout the world today. Unfortunately, nearly all were looted by grave robbers so their origin and context are unknown. In recent years, however, through a combination of archaeological excavation and stylistic analysis, it has been possible to identify more than 250 painted vessels from the site of San Jose de Moro. To date, this is the largest sample of Moche art from a single place and time. Thus it provides a unique opportunity to identify a distinct sub-style of Moche ceramics, and to assess its range of artistic and technological variation. Moreover, within the sample it is possible to identify multiple paintings by 18 different artists, thus elucidating the range of subject matter that an artist would paint, as well as the variation in the way he would portray the same scene. By discussing and illustrating more than 200 painted vessels from San Jose de Moro, this volume provides insights about a community of ancient Peruvian potters who shared a distinctive painting style and left a fascinating record of their achievement.

Author : Janusz Z. Wołoszyn
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789698831

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Enemy – Stranger – Neighbour: The Image of the Other in Moche Culture by Janusz Z. Wołoszyn Pdf

'Enemy – Stranger – Neighbour: The Image of the Other in Moche Culture' is dedicated to artistic renderings of the Recuay people in Moche art, in all available and preserved media. This study offers an analysis of several dozen complex, painted and bas-relief scenes and several hundred mould-pressed, sculpted depictions of foreigners in Moche art.

Author : Christopher B. Donnan,Donna McClelland
Publisher : Genealogical Publishing Company
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Art
ISBN : STANFORD:36105035465371

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The Burial Theme in Moche Iconography by Christopher B. Donnan,Donna McClelland Pdf

Author : Steve Bourget
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781477310496

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Sacrifice, Violence, and Ideology Among the Moche by Steve Bourget Pdf

In a special precinct dedicated to ritual sacrifice at Huaca de la Luna on the north coast of Peru, about seventy-five men were killed and dismembered, their remains and body parts then carefully rearranged and left on the ground with numerous offerings. The discovery of this large sacrificial site—one of the most important sites of this type in the Americas—raises fundamental questions. Why was human sacrifice so central to Moche ideology and religion? And why is sacrifice so intimately related to the notions of warfare and capture? In this pioneering book, Steve Bourget marshals all the currently available information from the archaeology and visual culture of Huaca de la Luna as he seeks to understand the centrality of human sacrifice in Moche ideology and, more broadly, the role(s) of violence in the development of social complexity. He begins by providing a fully documented account of the archaeological contexts, demonstrating how closely interrelated these contexts are to the rest of Moche material culture, including its iconography, the regalia of its elite, and its monumental architecture. Bourget then probes the possible meanings of ritual violence and human sacrifice and their intimate connections with concepts of divinity, ancestry, and foreignness. He builds a convincing case that the iconography of ritual violence and the practice of human sacrifice at all the principal Moche ceremonial centers were the main devices used in the establishment and development of the Moche state.

Author : Jean-Francois Millaire,Magali Morlion
Publisher : Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2009-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781938770555

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Gallinazo by Jean-Francois Millaire,Magali Morlion Pdf

Over the last decades, considerable effort has been directed towards the study of early complex societies of northern Peru, and in recent years archaeologists have expressed a strong interest in the art and archaeology of the Moche, Lambayeque and Chimu societies. Yet, comparatively little attention has been paid to the earlier cultural foundations of north coast civilization: the Gallinazo. In the recent years, however, the work of a number of north coast specialists brought about a large quantity of data on the Gallinazo occupation of the coast, but a coherent framework for studying this culture had yet to be defined. The present volume is the result of a round table, which gathered some thirty scholars from Europe and North and South America to discuss the Gallinazo phenomenon. In fourteen chapters, authors with different perspectives and backgrounds reconsider the nature of the Gallinazo culture and its position within north coast cultural history, while addressing wider issues about the development of complex societies in this area and within the Andean region in general. The contributions reveal a diversity of perspectives on north coast archaeology, something that is likely to stimulate methodological and theoretical debates among Andeanists, pre-Columbian specialists and New World archaeologists in general.

Author : Andrew David Turner
Publisher : BAR International Series
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : UCSD:31822041454554

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Sex, Metaphor, and Ideology in Moche Pottery of Ancient Peru by Andrew David Turner Pdf

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Author : Christopher B. Donnan,University of California, Los Angeles. Museum of Cultural History,Heard Museum of Anthropology and Primitive Art,Denver Art Museum
Publisher : Los Angeles : Museum of Cultural History, University of California
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Indian art
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173017978391

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Moche Art of Peru by Christopher B. Donnan,University of California, Los Angeles. Museum of Cultural History,Heard Museum of Anthropology and Primitive Art,Denver Art Museum Pdf