Decoding Mimbres Painting: Ancient Ceramics of the American Southwest
ISBN-13:
9783791357430
ISBN-10:
3791357433
Edition:
First Edition
Author:
Evan Maurer, Tony Berlant
Publication date:
2018
Publisher:
Prestel
Format:
Hardcover
112 pages
Category:
Arts Collections
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ISBN-13:
9783791357430
ISBN-10:
3791357433
Edition:
First Edition
Author:
Evan Maurer, Tony Berlant
Publication date:
2018
Publisher:
Prestel
Format:
Hardcover
112 pages
Category:
Arts Collections
Summary
Decoding Mimbres Painting: Ancient Ceramics of the American Southwest (ISBN-13: 9783791357430 and ISBN-10: 3791357433), written by authors
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A New York Times Best Art Book of 2018
This generously illustrated book explores the pottery of the Mimbres people and offers new insight into its imagery.
Named after a valley in what is now Southwestern New Mexico, the Mimbres culture flourished between the 9th and 12th centuries. 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.
Published in association with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
This generously illustrated book explores the pottery of the Mimbres people and offers new insight into its imagery.
Named after a valley in what is now Southwestern New Mexico, the Mimbres culture flourished between the 9th and 12th centuries. 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.
Published in association with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
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