Name: Art, Nature, and Religion in the Central Andes: Themes and Variations From Prehistory to the Present (Joe r. And Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latin art and Culture)
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Author: Mary Strong
ISBN: 9780292754256

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Art, Nature, and Religion in the Central Andes: Themes and Variations From Prehistory to the Present (Joe r. And Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latin art and Culture)

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Physical Book

Publisher

University Of Texas Press

Author

Mary Strong

Year

2013

Language

English

Pages

368

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9780292754256

Synopsis "Art, Nature, and Religion in the Central Andes: Themes and Variations From Prehistory to the Present (Joe r. And Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latin art and Culture) "

From prehistory to the present, the Indigenous peoples of the Andes have used a visual symbol system—that is, art—to express their sense of the sacred and its immanence in the natural world. Many visual motifs that originated prior to the Incas still appear in Andean art today, despite the onslaught of cultural disruption that native Andeans have endured over several centuries. Indeed, art has always been a unifying power through which Andeans maintain their spirituality, pride, and culture while resisting the oppression of the dominant society.In this book, Mary Strong takes a significantly new approach to Andean art that links prehistoric to contemporary forms through an ethnographic understanding of Indigenous Andean culture. In the first part of the book, she provides a broad historical survey of Andean art that explores how Andean religious concepts have been expressed in art and how artists have responded to cultural encounters and impositions, ranging from invasion and conquest to international labor migration and the internet. In the second part, Strong looks at eight contemporary art types—the scissors dance (danza de tijeras), home altars (retablos), carved gourds (mates), ceramics (ceramica), painted boards (tablas), weavings (textiles), tinware (hojalateria), and Huamanga stone carvings (piedra de Huamanga). She includes prehistoric and historic information about each art form, its religious meaning, the natural environment and sociopolitical processes that help to shape its expression, and how it is constructed or performed by today’s artists, many of whom are quoted in the book.

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