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Art and vision in the Inca empire : Andeans and Europeans at Cajamarca

Title
Art and vision in the Inca empire : Andeans and Europeans at Cajamarca / Adam Herring, Southern Methodist University.
Author
Herring, Adam, 1967-
Publication
New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
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Description
xii, 249 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps; 27 cm
Summary
"In 1500 CE, the Inca empire covered most of South America's Andean region. The empire's leaders first met Europeans on November 15, 1532, when a large Inca army confronted Francisco Pizarro's band of adventurers in the highland Andean valley of Cajamarca, Peru. At few other times in its history would the Inca royal leadership so aggressively showcase its moral authority and political power. Glittering and truculent, what Europeans witnessed at Inca Cajamarca compels revised understandings of pre-contact Inca visual art, spatial practice, and bodily expression. This book takes a fresh look at the encounter at Cajamarca, using the episode to offer a new, art-historical interpretation of pre-contact Inca culture and power. Adam Herring's study offers close readings of Inca and Andean art in a variety of media: architecture and landscape, geoglyphs, sculpture, textiles, ceramics, featherwork, and metalwork. The volume is richly illustrated with over sixty color images"--
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-246) and index.
Contents
Introduction -- 1. Llamas and the logic of the gaze -- 2. Under Atawallpa's eyes -- 3. Chessboard landscape -- 4. Quri: a place in the sun -- Conclusion: fount of beauty.
Call Number
JQF 15-791
ISBN
  • 9781107094369
  • 1107094364
LCCN
  • 2014048689
  • 40025045014
OCLC
907189774
Author
Herring, Adam, 1967- author.
Title
Art and vision in the Inca empire : Andeans and Europeans at Cajamarca / Adam Herring, Southern Methodist University.
Publisher
New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Type of Content
text
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Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-246) and index.
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40025045014
Research Call Number
JQF 15-791
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