Andean art : visual expression and its relation to Andean beliefs and values / edited by Penny Dransart.

By: Dransart, Penelope
Contributor(s): International Congress of Americanists (47: 1991: New Orleans)
Language: English Publisher: Aldershot : Avebury, 1995.Description: vii, 317p. : ill., maps, tables ; 22cm.ISBN: 0856287122
Contents:
Contents: I, Social contexts of Andean art. The Inkas's mask / L. Millones; From Sammarcos to Retablo: the Ayacucho Retable as a social chronicle / E.M. Sordo; II, Cultural expression in Andean art. Art in the snuff trays of San Pedro de Atacuna (northern Chile) / A. Llagostera Martínez; Exploring the San Pedro de Atacama: Tiwanaku relationship / C.M. Torres, W.J. Conklin; From Pachamama to the Virgin Mary: what the Spanish never saw / Carol Damian; III, Recontextualising Andean objects of art. The art sign and the craft sign / J. Echeverri, C. Plazas; Andean renaissance: nascent American language / K. Lizárraga; IV, Construction and meaning in Andean art. Two options for achieving a visual image in Precolumbian textile art / P.B. Bailoni, S. Hoces de la Guardia; Inner worlds and the event of a thread in Isluga, northern Chile / P. Dransart; V, The role of art in the creation and animation of Andean landscapes. Art, agriculture, warfare and the Guano Islands / Elizabeth P. Benson; The resources of art: rock art and formative settlement-subsistence systems in the Argentine southern Puna / D.E. Olivera, M.M. Podestá; Seeing God in mid-colonial Peru / Kenneth R. Mills.
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"Revised versions of papers presented at the symposium: Arte Andino: expressión visual y su relación con las creencias y valores Andinos, organised by Emma Marla Sordo and Penny Dransart, at the 46th International Congress of Americanists, Tulane University, New Orleans, July 1990" [NB. THIS SHOULD READ: 47th Congress, New Orleans, July 1991].

Includes bibl. references.

Contents: I, Social contexts of Andean art. The Inkas's mask / L. Millones; From Sammarcos to Retablo: the Ayacucho Retable as a social chronicle / E.M. Sordo; II, Cultural expression in Andean art. Art in the snuff trays of San Pedro de Atacuna (northern Chile) / A. Llagostera Martínez; Exploring the San Pedro de Atacama: Tiwanaku relationship / C.M. Torres, W.J. Conklin; From Pachamama to the Virgin Mary: what the Spanish never saw / Carol Damian; III, Recontextualising Andean objects of art. The art sign and the craft sign / J. Echeverri, C. Plazas; Andean renaissance: nascent American language / K. Lizárraga; IV, Construction and meaning in Andean art. Two options for achieving a visual image in Precolumbian textile art / P.B. Bailoni, S. Hoces de la Guardia; Inner worlds and the event of a thread in Isluga, northern Chile / P. Dransart; V, The role of art in the creation and animation of Andean landscapes. Art, agriculture, warfare and the Guano Islands / Elizabeth P. Benson; The resources of art: rock art and formative settlement-subsistence systems in the Argentine southern Puna / D.E. Olivera, M.M. Podestá; Seeing God in mid-colonial Peru / Kenneth R. Mills.