The spirit of ancient Peru : treasures from the Museo Arqueologico Rafael Larco Herrera / edited by Kathleen Berrin.

Contributor(s): Berrin, Kathleen | Museo Arqueológico Rafael Larco Herrera.

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BookPublisher: London : Thames and Hudson, 1997Description: 216 p. : ill(some col.), col. maps, ports ; 29 cm. + hbk.ISBN: 0500018022.Subject(s): Larco Hoyle, Rafael

| Museo Arqueológico Rafael Larco Herrera | Indians of South America -- Peru -- Antiquities -- Exhibitions

| Mochica Indians -- Antiquities -- Exhibitions | Peru -- Antiquities -- ExhibitionsDDC classification: 709.85

Contents:

The spirit of Rafael Larco Hoyle : an introduction / Kathleen Berrin -- Rafael Larco Hoyle (1901-1966) / Clifford Evans -- Life and afterlife in pre-Hispanic Peru : contextualizing the masterworks of the Museo Arqueológico Rafael Larco Herrera / Richard L. Burger -- The coastal islands of Peru : myths and natural resources / María Rostworowski de Diez Canseco -- Moche art : myth, history and rite / Elizabeth P. Benson -- Deer hunting and combat : parallel activities in the Moche world / Christopher B. Donnan -- Andean aesthetics / Esther Pasztory -- Catalogue of objects / Elizabeth P. Benson ... [et al.]

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
General Lending	MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Lending	709.85 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		00052981

Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

A beautifully illustrated volume that presents more than a hundred and sixty works of art from Lima's famed Larco collection, the world's largest private collection of pre-Hispanic Peruvian art. Spectacular ceramics, textiles, metalwork and sculpture from the Chavin, Cupisnique, Salinar, Gallinazo, Moche, Parcas, Nasca, Lambayeque, Huari, Chimu and Inca cultures are illustrated and described, all with colour photographs. Some of the objects are remarkable for the skill of their craftmenship, such as ornate gold and silver jewellery and headresses, others intriguing for the beliefs they reveal, such as an intricate Lambayeque textile featuring elaborate divine beings, others are simply extraordinary, for example mosiac earplugs

"This book has been published in conjunction with the exhibition The spirit of ancient Peru: treasures from the Museo Arqueológico Rafael Larco Herrera [to be shown at] Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, 17 May-10 August 1997 [and] Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, Tennessee, 26 September 1997-4 January 1998"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-213) and index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Reviews provided by Syndetics

Library Journal Review

The superabundance of Middle Andean pre-Columbian treasures reposing in the Museo Arqueológico Rafael Larco Herrera, Lima, are without quantitative or qualitative equal. This handsomely illustrated catalog of an exhibition at the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco is an exquisite sampling of some 160 objects from that stellar collection. Although examples from all aspects of the artistic tradition of ancient Peru are reflected in this exhibition, the collector's preference for the northern coastal ceramics of the Moche culture is evident. Among the several prefatory essays is a succinct overview of the historical, environmental, and ideological context in which these artistic traditions flourished. The comprehensively illustrated catalog contains fully elaborated discussions of the objects' forms, techniques, iconography, and probable provenances. Although the book is wanting in stylistic analysis, the convincing elucidation of context and content make for a substantial and significant contribution to general collections.Robert Cahn, Fashion Inst. of Technology, New York (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.