9781683400547-1683400542-Pre-Columbian Art of the Caribbean (Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series)

Pre-Columbian Art of the Caribbean (Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series)

ISBN-13: 9781683400547
ISBN-10: 1683400542
Author: Lawrence Waldron
Publication date: 2019
Publisher: University of Florida Press
Format: Hardcover 448 pages
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ISBN-13: 9781683400547
ISBN-10: 1683400542
Author: Lawrence Waldron
Publication date: 2019
Publisher: University of Florida Press
Format: Hardcover 448 pages

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Pre-Columbian Art of the Caribbean (Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series) (ISBN-13: 9781683400547 and ISBN-10: 1683400542), written by authors Lawrence Waldron, was published by University of Florida Press in 2019. With an overall rating of 4.3 stars, it's a notable title among other Criticism (Arts History & Criticism) books. You can easily purchase or rent Pre-Columbian Art of the Caribbean (Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series) (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Criticism books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $41.3.

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Abundantly illustrated, this volume is a pioneering survey of the ancient art of the entire Caribbean region. While previous studies have focused on the Greater Antilles―Cuba, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, and Jamaica―this is the first book also to include the islands of the eastern Caribbean and their ties to pre-Columbian Venezuela.



Unlike prior art historical research that overwhelmingly emphasized the colonial period onward, this ambitious overview traces 4,000 years of the region’s early Indigenous heritage before the Spanish conquest.



Lawrence Waldron examines ceramics, ritual spaces, sculpture, and personal adornment from the ancient Saladoid era to the later, better-known Taíno period. Analyzing the symbolism, aesthetics, and cultural contexts of objects including ceremonial pots, rock art, stone effigy belts, and jewelry, he illuminates continuities and innovations in imagery and ideology across time and space. He draws attention to the legacies of Amerindian visual and material culture in the architecture and furniture of the present-day Caribbean, arguing that the region’s ancient art history is rich and worthy of attention.





A volume in the Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series

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