A sourcebook of Nasca ceramic iconography : reading a culture through its art / Donald A. Proulx
2006, First Edition. Iowa City : University of Iowa Press. Fine paperback copy. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #401255
ISBN: 1587298295
Physical description; 236 pages, 15 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-228) and index. Contents; Overview of the Nasca culture -- Nasca pottery and its artistic canons -- The discovery of the Nasca style and its chronological placement -- Approaches to the interpretation of Nasca iconography -- A description and interpretation of the major themes in Nasca ceramic iconography -- New insights on Nasca society. Subjects; Nazca pottery Themes, motives. Nazca culture. Idols and images Peru. Antiquities. Peru Antiquities.
Price: €125.00