Art and Vision in the Inca Empire - Andeans and Europeans At Cajamarca

This book offers a new, art-historical interpretation of pre-contact Inca culture and power and includes over sixty color images.

List of contents

1. Llamas and the logic of the gaze; 2. Under Atawallpa's gaze; 3. Chessboard landscape; 4. Qori: a place in the sun; Conclusion: fount of beauty.

About the author

Adam Herring is Associate Professor of Art History in the Meadows School of the Arts at Southern Methodist University. He is author of Art and Writing in the Maya Cities, AD 600–800: A Poetics of Line (Cambridge University Press, 2005).

Summary

This book offers a new, art-historical interpretation of pre-contact Inca culture and power. Adam Herring 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.

Product details

• Authors: Adam Herring, Adam (Southern Methodist University Herring, Herring Adam
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.05.2015
• EAN: 9781107094369
• ISBN: 978-1-107-09436-9
• No. of pages: 258
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Pre and early history; South America, Art of indigenous peoples, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, History of art / art & design styles, History of Art, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, History of the Americas, c 1500 to c 1600, Mexico and Central America