ISBN: 9783791357430 - decoding mimbres painting: ancient ceramics of the american southwest (5 résultats)

Etat : Good. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Ex-library, so some stamps and wear, but in good overall condition. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions.…

hardcover. Etat : Used; Like New. First Edition; First Printing. Brand New book sealed in the publisher's original shrinkwrap. Flawless and in perfect condition. ; Illustrated in color throughout. Published in conjunction with the exhibition Decoding Mimbres Painting: Ancient Ceramics of the American Southwest at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, May 20, 2018 - September 16, 2018. ; This generously illustrated book explores the pottery of the Mimbres people and offers new insight into its imagery. Through the exploration of paintings on Mimbres bowls, this book offers revelations about the culture's worldview based on the patterns and shapes depicted in their pottery. Drawing on extensive research as well as photography of the flora and fauna that still thrive in the Mimbres valley, the authors make the case that the pottery's beautiful black-and-white paintings and highly intricate designs are abstractions of visual experiences--some seen in the natural world and others generated by trance-like states brought on by ingesting the datura plant. Presenting a distinctive new interpretation of the iconography of ancient Mimbres painted ceramics, this volume addresses Mimbres culture and how this past civilization lived and communicated with the spirit world.…

4°, hardcover. 110 pp Like new. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1000.

Etat : gut. 2018. Decoding Mimbres Painting. Ancient Ceramics of the American Southwest. In deutscher Sprache. pages.

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