Sawyer, Alan R., "Ancient Peruvian Ceramics: The Nathan Cummings Collection"
Sawyer, Alan R., "Ancient Peruvian Ceramics: The Nathan Cummings Collection"
Metropolitan Museum of Art/NYGraphic Society | 1966 | ISBN: N/A | English | PDF | 144 pages | 25.9 Mb
Metropolitan Museum of Art/NYGraphic Society | 1966 | ISBN: N/A | English | PDF | 144 pages | 25.9 Mb
Peru occupies the central portion of the mighty Andean mountain chain that closely parallels the western edge of South America. Here the blue Pacific pounds a narrow ribbon of surf against a 1,300-mile-long coast of jagged rocks and empty beaches. The narrow coastal plain is an ashen desert crowded by parched mountain spurs, which rise in awesome crescendo to lofty snow-capped peaks. The highest, Mt. Huascaran, over 22,200 feet in altitude and only sixty miles from the sea, forms part of the continental watershed. Cool winds from offshore are heated by the sun-scorched desert and, taking rather than giving moisture, rise upward as they move inland, until at last the altitude wrings them dry. Most of the precipitation flows rapidly into tributaries of the Amazon, which reach like tentacles into the heart of the mountains, drawing off moisture to be lavished on steaming jungle and swamp. Only a fraction of the water drains toward the Pacific, through about forty steep-walled valleys, many of which are dry much of the year. The fact that this arid mountain-crowded zone between jungle and sea gave rise to some of the most splendid of ancient American civilizations is a tribute to man's extraordinary ability to cooperate with his kind to overcome the most hostile of environments.
Preface
Map of Peru
1. Introduction
Chronological Chart
The North Coast
2. The Formative Period
Cupisnique
Salinar
Gallinazo
Recuay
Viciis
3. Mochica Chronology
Mochica I
Mochica II
Mochica III
Mochica IV
Mochica V
4. Mochica Ceramic Art
Portraiture
Figure Vessels
Warriors
Runners
Modes of Representation
Religion
5. Other North Coast Styles
Highland Inca
Chancay-Inca
The South Coast
6. The Great Discovery
7. The Early Ceramic Period
8. The Formative Paracas Period
9. The Ocucaje Early Paracas Style
10. The Ocucaje Middle Paracas Style
11. A Re-examination of "Necropolis"
12. The Late Paracas Period at Ocucaje
13. The Proto-Nazca Period
14. The Juan Pablo Style
The Juan Pablo Feline Mask Motif
The Juan Pablo Feline Figure Motif
The Juan Pablo Fox Motif
The Juan Pablo Falcon Motif
The Juan Pablo Vencejo Motif
Additional Notes on the Juan Pablo Style
15. The Callango Style
The Callango Feline Motif
The Callango Falcon Motif
The Callango Fox Motif
The Callango Double-headed Serpent Motif
The Callango Human Face Motif
16. The Nazca Culture
17. The Early Nazca Style
18. The Middle Nazca Style
19. The Late Nazca Style
20. The Nazca-Wari Style
21. Late South Coast Periods
Color Keys
Notes on the Illustrations
Selected Bibliography
Index
Map of Peru
1. Introduction
Chronological Chart
The North Coast
2. The Formative Period
Cupisnique
Salinar
Gallinazo
Recuay
Viciis
3. Mochica Chronology
Mochica I
Mochica II
Mochica III
Mochica IV
Mochica V
4. Mochica Ceramic Art
Portraiture
Figure Vessels
Warriors
Runners
Modes of Representation
Religion
5. Other North Coast Styles
Highland Inca
Chancay-Inca
The South Coast
6. The Great Discovery
7. The Early Ceramic Period
8. The Formative Paracas Period
9. The Ocucaje Early Paracas Style
10. The Ocucaje Middle Paracas Style
11. A Re-examination of "Necropolis"
12. The Late Paracas Period at Ocucaje
13. The Proto-Nazca Period
14. The Juan Pablo Style
The Juan Pablo Feline Mask Motif
The Juan Pablo Feline Figure Motif
The Juan Pablo Fox Motif
The Juan Pablo Falcon Motif
The Juan Pablo Vencejo Motif
Additional Notes on the Juan Pablo Style
15. The Callango Style
The Callango Feline Motif
The Callango Falcon Motif
The Callango Fox Motif
The Callango Double-headed Serpent Motif
The Callango Human Face Motif
16. The Nazca Culture
17. The Early Nazca Style
18. The Middle Nazca Style
19. The Late Nazca Style
20. The Nazca-Wari Style
21. Late South Coast Periods
Color Keys
Notes on the Illustrations
Selected Bibliography
Index
Sawyer, Alan R., "Ancient Peruvian Ceramics: The Nathan Cummings Collection"
