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