Nordic Private Collections of Chinese Objects - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Nordic Private Collections of Chinese Objects write by Minna Törmä. This book was released on 2020-05-27. Nordic Private Collections of Chinese Objects available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores the ways in which Nordic private collectors displayed their collections of Chinese objects in their homes. This leads to a reconsideration of how to define collecting and display by analysing the difference between objects serving as decorative or collectible items, while tracing collecting and display trends of the twentieth century. Minna Törmä examines four Scandinavian collections as case studies: Kustaa Hiekka, Sophus Black, Osvald Sirén and Marie-Louise and Gunnar Didrichsen, all of whom had professional backgrounds (a jeweler, two businessmen and a scholar) and for whom collecting became a passion and an educational endeavour. This book will be of interest to scholars in art history, museum studies, Chinese studies and design history.
From the Parts to the Whole
From the Parts to the Whole - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook From the Parts to the Whole write by Carol C. Mattusch. This book was released on 2000. From the Parts to the Whole available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Settlement and Subsistence in Early Formative Soconusco
Settlement and Subsistence in Early Formative Soconusco - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Settlement and Subsistence in Early Formative Soconusco write by Richard G. Lesure. This book was released on 2010-12-31. Settlement and Subsistence in Early Formative Soconusco available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Soconusco region, a narrow strip of the Pacific coast of Mexico and Guatemala, is the location of some of the earliest pottery-using villages of ancient Mesoamerica. Mobile early inhabitants of the area harvested marsh clams in the estuaries, leaving behind vast mounds of shell. With the introduction of pottery and the establishment of permanent villages (from 1900 B.C.), use of the resource-rich estuary changed. The archaeological manifestation of that new estuary adaptation is a dramatic pattern of inter-site variability in pottery vessel forms. Vessels at sites within the estuary were about seventy percent neckless jars -- "tecomates" -- while vessels at contemporaneous sites a few kilometers inland were seventy percent open dishes. The pattern is well-known, but the the settlement arrangements or subsistence practices that produced it have remained unclear. Archaeological investigations at El Varal, a special-purpose estuary site of the later Early Formative (1250-1000 B.C.) expand possibilities for an anthropological understanding of the archaeological patterns. The goal of this volume is to describe excavations and finds at the site and to propose, based on a variety of analyses, a new understanding of Early Formative assemblage variability.
Testing the Canon of Ancient Near Eastern Art and Archaeology
Testing the Canon of Ancient Near Eastern Art and Archaeology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Testing the Canon of Ancient Near Eastern Art and Archaeology write by Amy Gansell. This book was released on 2020-01-06. Testing the Canon of Ancient Near Eastern Art and Archaeology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Testing the Canon of Ancient Near Eastern Art and Archaeology invites readers to reconsider the contents and agendas of the art historical and world-culture canons by looking at one of their most historically enduring components: the art and archaeology of the ancient Near East. Ann Shafer, Amy Rebecca Gansell, and other top researchers in the field examine and critique the formation and historical transformation of the ancient Near Eastern canon of art, architecture, and material culture. Contributors flesh out the current boundaries of regional and typological sub-canons, analyze the technologies of canon production (such as museum practices and classroom pedagogies), and voice first-hand heritage perspectives. Each chapter, thereby, critically engages with the historiography behind our approach to the Near East and proposes alternative constructs. Collectively, the essays confront and critique the ancient Near Eastern canon's present configuration and re-imagine its future role in the canon of world art as a whole. This expansive collection of essays covers the Near East's many regions, eras, and types of visual and archaeological materials, offering specific and actionable proposals for its study. Testing the Canon of Ancient Near Eastern Art and Archaeology stands as a vital benchmark and offers a collective path forward for the study and appreciation of Near Eastern cultural heritage. This book acts as a model for similar inquiries across global art historical and archaeological fields and disciplines.
Paso de la Amada
Paso de la Amada - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Paso de la Amada write by Richard G Lesure. This book was released on 2021-08-29. Paso de la Amada available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Paso de la Amada, an archaeological site in the Soconusco region of the Pacific coast of Mexico, was among the earliest sedentary, ceramic-using villages of Mesoamerica. With an occupation that extended across 140 ha in 1600 BC, it was also one of the largest communities of its era. First settled around 1900 BC, the site was abandoned 600 years later during what appears to have been a period of local political turmoil. The decline of Paso de la Amada corresponded with a rupture in local traditions of material culture and local adoption of the Early Olmec style. Stylistically, the material culture of Paso de la Amada corresponds predominantly to the pre-Olmec Mokaya tradition. Excavations at the site have revealed significant earthen constructions from as early as 1700 BC. Those include the earliest known Mesoamerican ball court and traces of a series of high-status residences. This monograph reports on large-scale excavations in Mounds 1, 12, and 32, as well as soundings in other locations. The volume covers all aspects of excavations and artifacts and includes three lengthy interpretive chapters dealing with the main research questions, which concern subsistence, social inequality, and the organizational history of the site.
