This up-to-date account of the art and architecture of ancient Mesoamerica evocatively summarizes the artistic achievements of the high pre-Columbian civilizations--Olmec, Maya, Teotihuacan, Toltec, and Aztec--as well as of their less-famous contemporaries.
For Non-Western Art, Humanities, or Culture and Religion courses. This one-volume survey provides students with detailed and systematic coverage of Non-Western art via coverage of the cultural and ideological contexts in which art was created. Michael Kampen-O'Riley created this text to serve as the market's first dedicated survey of Non-Western ...
A comprehensive source for identifying the marks of the American Southwest Indian artists working in metal, clay, wood, textiles, and paint-an important record of the work of these talented people. The information is alphabetically arranged and includes important personal data, tribal affiliations, working dates, materials used, and facsimiles of ...
An innovative survey of Native North American art history which fully incorporates substantive new research and scholarship, and examines such issues as gender, representation, the colonial encounter, and contemporary arts. By encompassing both the sacred and secular, political and domestic, the ceremonial and commercial, it shows the importance ...
This text comprises eleven chapters, each focusing on a discrete area of non-Western or Native American art. With nearly 180 illustrations (many in full color) and an accessible 8 1/2 x 11 format, students are introduced to important subjects and artworks outside of the Western tradition.
Organized by El Museo del Barrio in New York to coincide with a major exhibition, this is the first comprehensive English-language publication on the fascinating legacy of Taino art and culture. Showcasing over one hundred rare and beautiful ceremonial and domestic artworks and individual masterpieces of this ancient culture -- produced in Puerto ...
"NORTHWEST COAST INDIAN ART is a very beautiful book and it is also an important contribution to the fields of art and anthropology, Its most distinguished feature is the author's sensitive yet scientific approach in coming firmly to grips with elements of art which often have been considered intangible".--THE BEAVER.
Along the Ohio, Tennessee, and Mississippi Rivers, the archaeological remains of earthen pyramids, plazas, large communities, and works of art and artefacts testify to Native American civilizations that thrived there between 3000 B.C. and A.D. 1500. This fascinating book presents exciting new information on the art and cultures of these ancient ...
An evocative collection of Native American-inspired cross stitch designs by leading designer and best-selling author, Joan Elliott. The distinctive imagery of America's indigenous culture is a powerful reminder of the values that the native people lived by. Now you can bring these sentiments to your stitching with this beautiful collection of ...
Artistic traditions of indigenous North America are explored in a study that draws on the testimonies of oral tradition, Native American history, and North American archaeology, focusing on the artists themselves and their cultural identities. Original.
This comprehensive view of carvings and paintings on stone by Native Americans from 200 B.C. through the nineteenth century surveys the rock art of Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, northern Mexico, and west Texas, providing an incomparable visual record of Southwest Indian culture, religion, and society. Rock carvings and paintings are important sources ...
Collectors and historians alike will love this dynamic and extensive guide to the historic and highly collectible world of American Indian artifacts. This reference illustrates the beauty and significance of distinct utensils, tools, weapons and ornaments through more than 1,000 stunning colour photos and current market values. Collectors will ...
Humans have inhabited the Southwest since ancient times, before the existence of deserts, when the climate was wet and cooler. As the landscape changed, people and cultures evolved, and as they developed in the Rio Grande Valley, they left traces of their presence, signs of life, in their rock art. Ancient images on stone offer intriguing glimpses ...
This catalog of ancient motifs contains over 760 vigorous, powerful, stark designs from pre-Columbian clay stamps made by Aztecs, Maya, Zapotecs, Toltec, Olmec, Mixtec. Depictions of serpents, gods, priests, dancers, florals, geometrics, more.
Beautiful primitive art in nearly 300 royalty-free examples. Includes designs from pottery, basketry, beadwork, masks, dolls, sand paintings and blankets.
Art of the American Indian Frontier examines an incomparable collection of nineteenth-century Native American art from the North American Woodlands, Prairie, and Plains. The collection resulted from the efforts of Milford G. Chandler and Richard A. Pohrt, whose early childhood fascination with the Indian frontier past evolved into a deep and ...
This reference shows where to find the trading posts, galleries, auctions, artists, and museums of the Four Corners Region. "Whether you're an experienced collector looking for new art sources or a beginner looking to buy your first Navajo rug, the "Trading Post Guidebook" will get you out of the galleries and into the Four Corners backcountry".-- ...
Fifteen hundred years ago, Teotihuacan was one of the world's greatest cities. Some 200,000 people lived in this Mexican metropolis, with its massive public buildings, grid plan of streets and imposing murals and sculpture. Its trading empire dominated much of ancient Mexico. Then, in the 8th century, came a mysterious collapse. Even knowledge of ...
The mysterious world of the Aztecs is re-created in this book, which gives a view of the culture. Photographs, maps and diagrams reveal temple architecture, majestic stone sculptures carved without metal tools, lost techniques of featherwork and turquoise mosaic, painted books and more.
Over 360 authentic royalty-free designs adapted from Navajo blankets, Hopi pottery, Sioux buffalo hides, more. Geometrics, symbolic figures, plant and animal motifs, much more.
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