Art and Vision in the Inca Empire

Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-1-107-09436-9
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 258 Seiten, Format (B × H): 183 mm x 260 mm, Gewicht: 694 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Herring, Adam

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunststile Indigene Kunst, Volkskunst

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Llamas and the logic of the gaze; 2. Under Atawallpa's gaze; 3. Chessboard landscape; 4. Qori: a place in the sun; Conclusion: fount of beauty.

Über Autor(innen)

Herring, Adam
Adam Herring is Associate Professor of Art History in the Meadows School of the Arts at Southern Methodist University. He is author of Art and Writing in the Maya Cities, AD 600–800: A Poetics of Line (Cambridge University Press, 2005).