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Art and vision at Inca Cajamarca, Adam Herring, Southern Methodist University

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Art and vision at Inca Cajamarca, Adam Herring, Southern Methodist University

Language

eng

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index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Art and vision at Inca Cajamarca

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electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

1103567496

Responsibility statement

Adam Herring, Southern Methodist University

Series statement

Cambridge Social Sciences eBooks

Summary

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.--, Provided by publisher

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Art & Vision in the Inca Empire

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