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For almost two thousand years, the pottery made by the Indians of America’s Southwest has remained a vital art. Today, more than twenty Pueblos and tribes make pottery within the tradition, each with a distinctive style. Many of those local styles have persisted for hundreds of years. In prehistory, beautiful pieces had high trade value, and the finest contemporary pieces command prices appropriate to fine art of any type. Potters like Nampeyo, Maria Martinez and Juan Quezada achieved worldwide fame. Yet despite its history and the skill of its artists, Southwestern Indian pottery remains surprisingly easy to collect. This book introduces the art from its beginnings to the present and displays examples that describe how America’s first important art form grew into one of the world’s most accessible treasures.
Pottery of the Southwest: Ancient Art and Modern Traditions
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Peru’s ancient Moche culture is represented in a magnificent collection of artifacts at Harvard’s Peabody Museum. In this richly illustrated volume, Jeffrey Quilter presents a fascinating introduction to this intriguing culture and explores current thinking about Moche politics, history, society, and religion.
Quilter utilizes the Peabody’s collection as a means to investigate how the Moche used various media, particularly ceramics, to convey messages about their lives and beliefs. His presentation provides a critical examination and rethinking of many of the commonly held interpretations of Moche artifacts and their imagery, raising important issues of art production and its role in ancient and modern societies.
The most up-to-date monograph available on the Moche—and the first extensive discussion of the Peabody Museum’s collection of Moche ceramics—this volume provides an introduction for the general reader and contributes to ongoing scholarly discussions. Quilter’s fresh reading of Moche visual imagery raises new questions about the art and culture of ancient Peru.
The Moche of Ancient Peru: Media and Messages
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This book follows the pottery-making traditions from the earliest utility wares of the Mogollon and Anasazi Indians to the artistically superb pottery made by contemporary Pueblo Indians of the Rio Grande Valley. The 175 pieces features trace the long development – over 1800 years – of Pueblo Indian pottery while highlighting some of its more remarkable moments.
From This Earth: The Ancient Art of Pueblo Pottery
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The standard work on lost New Mexico civilization’s extraordinary craft. Stunning photos.
Mimbres Pottery: Ancient Art of the American Southwest : Essays
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Formatted for Kindle.
Linked Contents, footnotes, and Index.
Illustrations.
CONTENTS
Introductory
Ceramic groups
Middle Mississippi province
Distribution
How found
Age
Use
Construction
Material
Color
Form
Finish
Ornament
Modification of shape
Relief ornament
Intaglio designs
Designs in color
Classification of forms
Origin of form
Bowls
Form
Ornament
Illustrations
Ordinary forms
Eccentric forms
Life forms
Pot-shaped vessels
Material
Form
Handles
Origin of handles
Ornament
Illustrations
Wide-mouthed bottles or jars
Form
Ornament
Illustrations
Ordinary forms
Eccentric forms
Life forms
High-necked bottles
Form
Ornament
Illustrations
Ordinary forms
Eccentric forms
Life forms
Upper Mississippi province
Gulf province
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Ancient Pottery of the Mississippi Valley
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The standard work on lost New Mexico civilization’s extraordinary craft. Stunning photos.
Mimbres Pottery: Ancient Art of the American Southwest
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