TY  - BOOK
AU  - Proulx,Donald A.
TI  - A sourcebook of Nasca ceramic iconography: reading a culture through its art 
SN  - 9781587297533
AV  - F3429.3.P8 P76 2006eb
U1  - 985 22
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Iowa City
PB  - University of Iowa Press
KW  - Nazca pottery
KW  - Themes, motives
KW  - Nazca culture
KW  - Idols and images
KW  - Peru
KW  - Céramique de Nazca
KW  - Thèmes, motifs
KW  - Culture de Nazca
KW  - Idoles et images
KW  - Pérou
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - General
KW  - Antiquities
KW  - fast
KW  - Antiquités
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-228) and index; Overview of the Nasca culture -- Nasca pottery and its artistic canons -- The discovery of the Nasca style and its chronological placement -- Approaches to the interpretation of Nasca iconography -- A description and interpretation of the major themes in Nasca ceramic iconography -- New insights on Nasca society
N2  - For almost eight hundred years (100 BC-AD 650) Nasca artists modeled and painted the plants, animals, birds, and fish of their homeland on Peru's south coast as well as numerous abstract anthropomorphic creatures whose form and meaning are sometimes incomprehensible today. In this first book-length treatment of Nasca ceramic iconography to appear in English, drawing upon an archive of more than eight thousand Nasca vessels from over 150 public and private collections, Donald Proulx systematically describes the major artistic motifs of this stunning polychrome pottery, interprets the major them
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