Painted by a Distant Hand - 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 Painted by a Distant Hand write by Steven A. LeBlanc. This book was released on 2004. Painted by a Distant Hand available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Highlighting one of the Peabody Museum's most important archaeological expeditions—the excavation of the Swarts Ranch Ruin in southwestern New Mexico by Harriet and Burton Cosgrove in the mid-1920s—Steven LeBlanc's book features rare, never-before-published examples of Mimbres painted pottery, considered by many scholars to be the most unique of all the ancient art traditions of North America. Made between A.D. 1000 and 1150, these pottery bowls and jars depict birds, fish, insects, and mammals that the Mimbres encountered in their daily lives, portray mythical beings, and show humans participating in both ritual and everyday activities. LeBlanc traces the origins of the Mimbres people and what became of them, and he explores our present understanding of what the images mean and what scholars have learned about the Mimbres people in the 75 years since the Cosgroves' expedition.
Mimbres Painted Pottery
Mimbres Painted Pottery - 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 Mimbres Painted Pottery write by J. J. Brody. This book was released on 2004. Mimbres Painted Pottery available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A distinguished scholar of Southwestern Native arts for over thirty years, J.J. Brody here returns to his early work on the Mimbres ceramic tradition, which established him as the leading authority on the arts of this ancient people. The Mimbres cultural florescence between A.D. 1000 and A.D. 1140 remains one of the most visually astonishing and anthropologically intriguing questions in Southwest prehistory. In this revised edition, Dr. Brody incorporates the extensive fieldwork done on Mimbres sites since the original publication in 1977, updating his discussion of village life, the larger world in which the Mimbres people lived, and how the art that they practiced illuminates these wider issues. He addresses human and animal iconography, the importance of perspective and motion in perceiving Mimbres artistry, and the technology used to produce the ceramics. Placing the study of ancient art and artifacts in the present, he notes the impact of the antiquities market on archaeological and artistic research.
Distant Shores
Distant Shores - 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 Distant Shores write by Constance Martin. This book was released on 2000-01-01. Distant Shores available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. his admiration for the heroic virtues of their inhabitants, and the mystical strain in his nature, his sense of wonder before the elemental and infinite. These early Monhegan paintings, with their uncompromising clarity, their concentration on the stark forms of the island, and their romantic delight in great expanses of sea, cold northern sky, and brilliant light, were among his most moving works."--Lloyd Goodrich "[We see] Kent's fascination with the wild and remote places of the earth, his admiration for the heroic virtues of their inhabitants, and the mystical strain in his nature, his sense of wonder before the elemental and infinite. These early Monhegan paintings, with their uncompromising clarity, their concentration on the stark forms of the island, and their romantic delight in great expanses of sea, cold northern sky, and brilliant light, were among his most moving works."--Lloyd Goodrich
To Touch the Past
To Touch the Past - 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 To Touch the Past write by J. J. Brody. This book was released on 1996. To Touch the Past available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Color-packed volume brings to stunning life 1,000-year-old Native American ceramic pottery. 163 illustrations.
The Swarts Ruin
The Swarts Ruin - 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 The Swarts Ruin write by Harriet S. Cosgrove. This book was released on 2012-01-16. The Swarts Ruin available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This classic volume on the evocative and enigmatic pottery of the Mimbres people has become an irreplaceable design catalogue for contemporary Native American artists. The Peabody’s reissue of The Swarts Ruin once again makes available a rich resource for scholars, artists, and admirers of Native American art.
