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Pueblo - Mountain, Village, Dance (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
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Pueblo - Mountain, Village, Dance (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
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The vast and beautiful landscape of the American Southwest has long
haunted artists and writers seeking to understand the mysteries of
the deep affinity between the land and the Native Americans who
have lived on it for centuries. In this pioneering study, art
historian Vincent Scully explores the inhabitants' understanding of
the natural world in an entirely original way--by observing and
analyzing the complex yet visible relationships between the
landscape of mountain and desert, the ancient ruins and the
pueblos, and the ceremonial dances that take place with them.
Scully sees these intricate dances as the most profound works of
art yet produced on the American continent--as human action
entwined with the natural world and framed by architectural forms,
in which the Pueblos express their belief in the unity of all
earthly things.
Scully's observations, presented in lively prose and exciting
photographs, are based on his own personal experiences of the
Southwest; on his exploration of the region of the Rio Grande and
the Hopi mesas; on his witnessing of the dances and ceremonies of
the Pueblos and others; and on his research into their culture and
history. He draws on the vast literature inspired by the Native
Americans--from early exploration narratives to the writing of D.
H. Lawrence to recent scholarship--to enrich and support his unique
approach to the subject.
To this second edition Scully has added a new preface that raises
issues of preservation and development. He has also written an
extensive postscript that reassesses the relationship between
nature and culture in Native American tradition and its relevance
to contemporary architecture and landscape.
Coming to Pueblo architecture as he does from a provocative study
of sacred architecture in ancient Greece, Scully has much to say
that is both striking and moving of the Pueblo attitudes toward
sacred places, the arrangement of structures in space, the lives of
men and beasts, and man's relation to rain, earth,
vegetation.--Robert M. Adams, New York Review of Books
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