The Art And Archaeology Of The Moche
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The Art And Archaeology Of The Moche
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Author : Steve Bourget
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2009-06-03
The Art And Archaeology Of The Moche written by Steve Bourget and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-06-03 with Social Science categories.
Renowned for their monumental architecture and rich visual culture, the Moche inhabited the north coast of Peru during the Early Intermediate Period (AD 100-800). Archaeological discoveries over the past century and the dissemination of Moche artifacts to museums around the world have given rise to a widespread and continually increasing fascination with this complex culture, which expressed its beliefs about the human and supernatural worlds through finely crafted ceramic and metal objects of striking realism and visual sophistication. In this standard-setting work, an international, multidisciplinary team of scholars who are at the forefront of Moche research present a state-of-the-art overview of Moche culture. The contributors address various issues of Moche society, religion, and material culture based on multiple lines of evidence and methodologies, including iconographic studies, archaeological investigations, and forensic analyses. Some of the articles present the results of long-term studies of major issues in Moche iconography, while others focus on more specifically defined topics such as site studies, the influence of El Niño/Southern Oscillation on Moche society, the nature of Moche warfare and sacrifice, and the role of Moche visual culture in decoding social and political frameworks.
Moche Art And Archaeology In Ancient Peru
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Author : Joanne Pillsbury
language : en
Publisher: Ngw-Stud Hist Art
Release Date : 2005
Moche Art And Archaeology In Ancient Peru written by Joanne Pillsbury and has been published by Ngw-Stud Hist Art this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Architecture categories.
This volume explores the art and archaeology of the Moche, who created impressive monuments and metal objects centuries before the rise of the Inca. A major theme of the volume is how the visual arts and political representation are connected.
Moche Art And Visual Culture In Ancient Peru
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Author : Margaret Ann Jackson
language : en
Publisher: UNM Press
Release Date : 2008
Moche Art And Visual Culture In Ancient Peru written by Margaret Ann Jackson and has been published by UNM Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Art categories.
This multidisciplinary study analyzes the visual, linguistic, and cultural significance of the imagery used by the Moche in their ceramics and murals.
Image Encounters
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Author : Lisa Trever
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2022-02-08
Image Encounters written by Lisa Trever and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-02-08 with Art categories.
Moche murals of northern Peru represent one of the great, yet still largely unknown, artistic traditions of the ancient Americas. Created in an era without written scripts, these murals are key to understandings of Moche history, society, and culture. In this first comprehensive study on the subject, Lisa Trever develops an interdisciplinary methodology of “archaeo art history” to examine how ancient histories of art can be written without texts, boldly inverting the typical relationship of art to archaeology. Trever argues that early coastal artistic traditions cannot be reduced uncritically to interpretations based in much later Inca histories of the Andean highlands. Instead, the author seeks the origins of Moche mural art, and its emphasis on figuration, in the deep past of the Pacific coast of South America. Image Encounters shows how formal transformations in Moche mural art, before and after the seventh century, were part of broader changes to the work that images were made to perform at Huacas de Moche, El Brujo, Pañamarca, and elsewhere in an increasingly complex social and political world. In doing so, this book reveals alternative evidentiary foundations for histories of art and visual experience.
Sacrifice Violence And Ideology Among The Moche
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Author : Steve Bourget
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2016-05-03
Sacrifice Violence And Ideology Among The Moche written by Steve Bourget and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-03 with Social Science categories.
In a special precinct dedicated to ritual sacrifice at Huaca de la Luna on the north coast of Peru, about seventy-five men were killed and dismembered, their remains and body parts then carefully rearranged and left on the ground with numerous offerings. The discovery of this large sacrificial site—one of the most important sites of this type in the Americas—raises fundamental questions. Why was human sacrifice so central to Moche ideology and religion? And why is sacrifice so intimately related to the notions of warfare and capture? In this pioneering book, Steve Bourget marshals all the currently available information from the archaeology and visual culture of Huaca de la Luna as he seeks to understand the centrality of human sacrifice in Moche ideology and, more broadly, the role(s) of violence in the development of social complexity. He begins by providing a fully documented account of the archaeological contexts, demonstrating how closely interrelated these contexts are to the rest of Moche material culture, including its iconography, the regalia of its elite, and its monumental architecture. Bourget then probes the possible meanings of ritual violence and human sacrifice and their intimate connections with concepts of divinity, ancestry, and foreignness. He builds a convincing case that the iconography of ritual violence and the practice of human sacrifice at all the principal Moche ceremonial centers were the main devices used in the establishment and development of the Moche state.
The Burial Theme In Moche Iconography
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Author : Christopher B. Donnan
language : en
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Company
Release Date : 1979
The Burial Theme In Moche Iconography written by Christopher B. Donnan and has been published by Genealogical Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979 with Art categories.
The Worlds Of The Moche On The North Coast Of Peru
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Author : Elizabeth P. Benson
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2012-07-15
The Worlds Of The Moche On The North Coast Of Peru written by Elizabeth P. Benson and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-07-15 with Social Science categories.
The Moche, or Mochica, created an extraordinary civilization on the north coast of Peru for most of the first millennium AD. Although they had no written language with which to record their history and beliefs, the Moche built enormous ceremonial edifices and embellished them with mural paintings depicting supernatural figures and rituals. Highly skilled Moche artisans crafted remarkable ceramic vessels, which they painted with figures and scenes or modeled like sculpture, and mastered metallurgy in gold, silver, and copper to make impressive symbolic ornaments. They also wove textiles that were complex in execution and design. A senior scholar renowned for her discoveries about the Moche, Elizabeth P. Benson published the first English-language monograph on the subject in 1972. Now in this volume, she draws on decades of knowledge, as well as the findings of other researchers, to offer a grand overview of all that is currently known about the Moche. Touching on all significant aspects of Moche culture, she covers such topics as their worldview and ritual life, ceremonial architecture and murals, art and craft, supernatural beings, government and warfare, and burial and the afterlife. She demonstrates that the Moche expressed, with symbolic language in metal and clay, what cultures in other parts of the world presented in writing. Indeed, Benson asserts that the accomplishments of the Moche are comparable to those of their Mesoamerica contemporaries, the Maya, which makes them one of the most advanced civilizations of pre-Columbian America.
The Moche Of Ancient Peru
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Author : Jeffrey Quilter
language : en
Publisher: Peabody Museum Press
Release Date : 2010
The Moche Of Ancient Peru written by Jeffrey Quilter and has been published by Peabody Museum Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Architecture categories.
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. It also raises important questions about art production and its role in this and other ancient and modern cultures. --
Enemy Stranger Neighbour The Image Of The Other In Moche Culture
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Author : Janusz Z. Wołoszyn
language : en
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Release Date : 2021-06-17
Enemy Stranger Neighbour The Image Of The Other In Moche Culture written by Janusz Z. Wołoszyn and has been published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-17 with History categories.
'Enemy – Stranger – Neighbour: The Image of the Other in Moche Culture' is dedicated to artistic renderings of the Recuay people in Moche art, in all available and preserved media. This study offers an analysis of several dozen complex, painted and bas-relief scenes and several hundred mould-pressed, sculpted depictions of foreigners in Moche art.
Archaeological Heritage In A Modern Urban Landscape
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Author : Jorge Gamboa
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2015-03-06
Archaeological Heritage In A Modern Urban Landscape written by Jorge Gamboa and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-06 with Social Science categories.
Archaeological Heritage in a Modern Urban Landscape evaluates issues about the preservation, social role and management of archaeological sites in the Trujillo area, north coast of Peru, specifically those of the Moche culture (100-800 AD). Moche was one of the great civilizations of ancient Peru, with spectacular ceremonial adobe architecture and settlements distributed across a landscape formed by coastal valleys and one of the largest deserts of South America. In the last decades political and economic changes have brought rural migrations to the city of Trujillo and nearby zones, causing the emergence of extensive new communities in the margins of the metropolis. And although Trujillo’s Moche heritage has become a symbol of regional identity, most local Moche sites are under siege because of urban development. This book offers a new perspective on the development of modern communities settled beside archaeological sites and contributes to improving best practices in the management of archaeological sites and preservation in an urban setting.