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Art, nature, and religion in the central Andes [[electronic resource] ] : themes and variations from prehistory to present / / Mary Strong



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Autore: Strong Mary <1947-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Art, nature, and religion in the central Andes [[electronic resource] ] : themes and variations from prehistory to present / / Mary Strong Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Austin, : University of Texas Press, c2012
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (369 p.)
Disciplina: 980/.01
Soggetto topico: Indian art - Andes Region
Indians of South America - Andes Region - Religion
Indians of South America - Andes Region - History
Indians of South America - Andes Region - Social life and customs
Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: pt. 1. Themes -- pt. 2. Variations -- pt. 3. Andean arts today.
Sommario/riassunto: From prehistory to the present, the Indigenous peoples of the Andes have used a visual symbol system—that is, art—to express their sense of the sacred and its immanence in the natural world. Many visual motifs that originated prior to the Incas still appear in Andean art today, despite the onslaught of cultural disruption that native Andeans have endured over several centuries. Indeed, art has always been a unifying power through which Andeans maintain their spirituality, pride, and culture while resisting the oppression of the dominant society. In this book, Mary Strong takes a significantly new approach to Andean art that links prehistoric to contemporary forms through an ethnographic understanding of Indigenous Andean culture. In the first part of the book, she provides a broad historical survey of Andean art that explores how Andean religious concepts have been expressed in art and how artists have responded to cultural encounters and impositions, ranging from invasion and conquest to international labor migration and the internet. In the second part, Strong looks at eight contemporary art types—the scissors dance (danza de tijeras), home altars (retablos), carved gourds (mates), ceramics (ceramica), painted boards (tablas), weavings (textiles), tinware (hojalateria), and Huamanga stone carvings (piedra de Huamanga). She includes prehistoric and historic information about each art form, its religious meaning, the natural environment and sociopolitical processes that help to shape its expression, and how it is constructed or performed by today’s artists, many of whom are "ed in the book.
Titolo autorizzato: Art, nature, and religion in the central Andes  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-292-73572-3
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910817420803321
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