FIRST U.S. EDITION. 1996 Thames Hudson trade paperback, Rebecca Stone-Miller (To Weave for the Sun: Ancient Andean Textiles in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston). This is a study of the art and architecture created by the various cultures of the ancient Andes. The book examines the goldwork, intricate textiles, vast cities and tall pyramids that constitute one of the oldest artistic traditions in history which, although the Incas are famous as the masters of the largest empire in the Renaissance world, remains relatively little-known. - Amazon

Art of the Andes (World of Art)

Arts & Photography

Stone-Miller, Rebecca

History & Criticism

Thames&Hudson

271 pp. with 324 illus. &amp; 80 color plates, oblong 4to.

To Weave for the Sun: Ancient Andean Textiles in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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To Weave for the Sun: Ancient Andean Textiles

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

The arts of the ancient Americas are diverse, visually arresting, and sometimes enigmatic. In this wide-ranging catalogue, nearly six hundred works of art from Mesoamerica southward are presented, with particular emphasis on the lesser-known area of ancient Costa Rica. Included are works from Mexico, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru, created in clay, stone, metal, wood, fiber, bone, and shell. Important pieces receive in-depth treatment -- a two-thousand-year-old Costa Rican female shaman effigy, the earliest known sculptural rendition of the Maya hieroglyph for the animal spirit, and gold earspools probably worn by a high official in the ChimÖ Empire of Peru. A major emphasis is placed on the shamanic experience of transformation into animal selves, since this subject preoccupied artists throughout the ancient Americas. New and exciting research, including ground-breaking geological analyses of greenstones (ìjadesî) by William B. Size, makes this catalogue an act of discovery.

Seeing With New Eyes: Highlights of the Michael C. Carlos Museum Collection of Art of the Ancient Americas

Michael C. Carlos Museum

L'art des Andes

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