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In 1500 CE, the Inca empire covered most of South America's Andean
region. The empire's leaders first met Europeans on November 15,
1532, when a large Inca army confronted Francisco Pizarro's band of
adventurers in the highland Andean valley of Cajamarca, Peru. At
few other times in its history would the Inca royal leadership so
aggressively showcase its moral authority and political power.
Glittering and truculent, what Europeans witnessed at Inca
Cajamarca compels revised understandings of pre-contact Inca visual
art, spatial practice, and bodily expression. This book takes a
fresh look at the encounter at Cajamarca, using the episode to
offer a new, art-historical interpretation of pre-contact Inca
culture and power. Adam Herring's study offers close readings of
Inca and Andean art in a variety of media: architecture and
landscape, geoglyphs, sculpture, textiles, ceramics, featherwork
and metalwork. The volume is richly illustrated with over sixty
color images.
Art and Writing in the Maya Cities, AD 600-800 examines an
important aspect of the visual cultures of the ancient Maya in
southern Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, and Honduras. During a critical
period of cultural evolution, artistic production changed
significantly, as calligraphy became an increasingly important
formal element in Maya aesthetics and was used extensively in
monumental building, sculptural programs and small-scale
utilitarian objects. Adam Herring's study analyzes art works,
visual programs, and cultural sites of memory, providing an
anthropologically-informed description of ancient Maya culture,
vision, and artistic practice. An inquiry into the contexts and
perceptions of the ancient Maya city, his book melds epigraphic and
iconographic methodologies with the critical tradition of
art-historical interpretation.
"Highways And Hedges," a new book of Christian poetry and art by
author Adam Herring. This collection will inspire, challenge, and
entertain any reader.
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