Inca Designs

Inca Designs
Title Inca Designs PDF eBook
Author Carol Belanger Grafton
Publisher Courier Corporation
Pages 68
Release 2014-05-21
Genre History
ISBN 0486498492

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A treasury of hard-to-find Inca artwork, this compilation features hundreds of striking designs. The images are drawn from the collections of a 19th-century anthropologist whose expeditions to Peru yielded a remarkable store of artifacts that reside today in museums throughout Germany. Designs, paintings, and relief representations depict ancient people, animals, and rituals. Reprint of selections from Ancient Peruvian Art, Dodd, Mead & Co., New York, 1902–03.

Art and Vision in the Inca Empire

Art and Vision in the Inca Empire
Title Art and Vision in the Inca Empire PDF eBook
Author Adam Herring
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 263
Release 2015-05-22
Genre Art
ISBN 1107094364

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

Art of the Andes

Art of the Andes
Title Art of the Andes PDF eBook
Author Rebecca Stone
Publisher
Pages 0
Release 2012
Genre Andes Region
ISBN 9780500204153

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"Fills a void in the genre. . . . Excellent descriptions and interpretations." --Latin American Antiquity

Art and Vision in the Inca Empire

Art and Vision in the Inca Empire
Title Art and Vision in the Inca Empire PDF eBook
Author Adam Herring
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 263
Release 2015-05-22
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1316300420

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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.

Scale and the Incas

Scale and the Incas
Title Scale and the Incas PDF eBook
Author Andrew James Hamilton
Publisher Princeton University Press
Pages 298
Release 2018-06-05
Genre Art
ISBN 0691172730

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A groundbreaking work on how the topic of scale provides an entirely new understanding of Inca material culture Although questions of form and style are fundamental to art history, the issue of scale has been surprisingly neglected. Yet, scale and scaled relationships are essential to the visual cultures of many societies from around the world, especially in the Andes. In Scale and the Incas, Andrew Hamilton presents a groundbreaking theoretical framework for analyzing scale, and then applies this approach to Inca art, architecture, and belief systems. The Incas were one of humanity's great civilizations, but their lack of a written language has prevented widespread appreciation of their sophisticated intellectual tradition. Expansive in scope, this book examines many famous works of Inca art including Machu Picchu and the Dumbarton Oaks tunic, more enigmatic artifacts like the Sayhuite Stone and Capacocha offerings, and a range of relatively unknown objects in diverse media including fiber, wood, feathers, stone, and metalwork. Ultimately, Hamilton demonstrates how the Incas used scale as an effective mode of expression in their vast multilingual and multiethnic empire. Lavishly illustrated with stunning color plates created by the author, the book's pages depict artifacts alongside scale markers and silhouettes of hands and bodies, allowing readers to gauge scale in multiple ways. The pioneering visual and theoretical arguments of Scale and the Incas not only rewrite understandings of Inca art, but also provide a benchmark for future studies of scale in art from other cultures.

The Incas

The Incas
Title The Incas PDF eBook
Author Terence N. D'Altroy
Publisher John Wiley & Sons
Pages 578
Release 2014-05-27
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1444331159

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The Incas is a captivating exploration of one of the greatest civilizations ever seen. Seamlessly drawing on history, archaeology, and ethnography, this thoroughly updated new edition integrates advances made in hundreds of new studies conducted over the last decade. • Written by one of the world’s leading experts on Inca civilization • Covers Inca history, politics, economy, ideology, society, and military organization • Explores advances in research that include pre-imperial Inca society; the royal capital of Cuzco; the sacred landscape; royal estates; Machu Picchu; provincial relations; the khipu information-recording technology; languages, time frames, gender relations, effects on human biology, and daily life • Explicitly examines how the Inca world view and philosophy affected the character of the empire • Illustrated with over 90 maps, figures, and photographs

The Inca World

The Inca World
Title The Inca World PDF eBook
Author David Jones
Publisher Lorenz Books
Pages 0
Release 2010
Genre History
ISBN 9780754817260

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This fascinating visual history tells the story of the ancient peoples of Peru and the Andes. Explores economics and the world of work, religious beliefs and life at home, crime and punishment, and death and sacrifice.