- Hardcover: 192 pages
- Publisher: University of Nebraska Press (15 Feb 2005)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0803249217
- ISBN-13: 978-0803249219
- Product Dimensions: 32 x 25.9 x 2.5 cm
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By the shores of Lake Titicaca, the largest body of water in the South American highland, rose the city of Tiwanaku. Its megalithic structures were constructed between AD 100 and 300. By 500 Tiwanaku had become the capital of an expanding empire in the Andes that endured until approximately AD 1000, when extended drought caused water levels to fall and agriculture to fail. After European colonization many of the buildings were raided for their stone, which was used to construct churches, rail stations, and houses. Less than a day's trip from La Paz, Bolivia, Tiwanaku remains one of the most impressive archeological sites in South America. Despite its fame and its economic, political, and artistic importance to such later peoples as the Incas, the Tiwanaku civilization has never been the subject of a comprehensive international art exhibition and accompanying catalogue - until now.Tiwanaku introduces the striking artwork and fascinating rituals of this highland culture through approximately one hundred works of art and cultural treasures. The range of media is unparalleled among ancient South American civilizations: large-scale stone sculptures, spectacular works in gold and silver, masterfully crafted ceramics, monumental architecture, gold and silver jewelry, and decoratively carved wood, bone, and stone objects. Of special note are the textiles, remarkably preserved by the dry climate of Tiwanaku's outposts in Chile and Peru. These finely crafted and richly decorated objects assembled from collections around the world evoke a vivid and comprehensive picture of elite life five hundred to one thousand years before the Inca Empire.This lavishly illustrated, full-colour catalogue features insightful scholarly essays introducing the general reader to the culture and historical context of the Tiwanaku. Margaret Young-Sanchez is Frederick and Jan Mayer Curator of pre-Columbian Art at the Denver Art Museum. She is an expert on the art of ancient South America, specializing in Andean textiles.
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Margaret Young-Sanchez is Frederick and Jan Mayer Curator of pre-Columbian Art at the Denver Art Museum. She is an expert on the art of ancient South America, specializing in Andean textiles.
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One of the few books you'll find on the Tiwanaku - scholarly exhibition catalogue, 27 Dec 2005
By K. Maxwell "katmax1" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Tiwanaku: Ancestors of the Inca (Hardcover)
This is one of the few books to be found on the Tiwanaku people of Lake Titicaca. These are a people who pre-dated the Inca and for close to 800 years dominated the highlands in what is now Peru and Bolivia.
Today their most visible remains is the gate of the sun and semi sunken temple on the shore of Lake Titicaca. They left no written records and in the immediate area of Tiwanaku city itself their remains have been poorly excavated over the years. Aside from their ruins perhaps their most stunning legacy has been their textiles.
This book displays a number of gorgeous textiles that were produced by the Tiwanaku and Wari peoples - these textiles, most of them today in private collections, on display here for the first time in one place, are one of the main reasons to get this book.
The text surrounding the textiles, snuff trays and sculptures produced in Tiwanaku and Wari illustrated in this book is scholarly. It draws on what little we have been able to find out about these people to show us a culture that was both savage, tightly integrated with nature and a people with high artistic sensibilities. If you want to know more about pre-Columbian cultures that extend beyond the Inca this book is one you should get for your collection about a little discussed people. If you enjoy pre-Columbian textiles this book should not be missed, if only for its colour illustrations.
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Documentation around a museum exhibition, 29 Nov 2009
By inayat2012 youtube - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Tiwanaku: Ancestors of the Inca (Hardcover)
This book is a collection of photographs and some background text of an exhibition of the same title. The photographs are good. The information behind them is academic and dry. So beyond getting the book for some interesting photographs you would not need to including this book in things related to either Tiwanaku or the Inca. In fact the book makes a tepid case of this link between Tiwanaku and the Inca. The Inca themselves identified with this area and claimed (as the current conquerors) the divine descendency from the Tiwanaku. But the Inca also strongly inherited their culture from the Wari, Moche, Chavin, and others.
If you are interested in Tiwanaku then 'the' prime resource is Ancient Tiwanaku (Case Studies in Early Societies).
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