Papers originally presented at a symposium sponsored by the Frederick and Jan Mayer Center for pre-Columbian and Spanish Colonial Art, held Jan. 14-15, 2005 at the Denver Art Museum, in conjuction with the exhibition entitled Tiwanaku : ancestors of the Inca. "A publication of the Frederick and Jan Mayer Center for Pre-Columbian and Spanish Colonial Art at the Denver Art Museum." Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
From Tiwanaku to Machu Picchu : ushnus and the architecture of creation / John Hoopes. The power of an icon : references to the Gateway of the Sun from the 19th century to the present / Georgia de Havenon -- Descendants of the sun : calendars, myth, and the Tiwanaku state / Leonardo Benitez -- Tiwanaku iconography and the calendar / R.T. Zuidema -- New perspectives on Tiwanaku iconography / Christiane Clados -- The iconic dimension in Tiwanaku art / William J. Conklin -- Royal statues, staff gods, and the religious ideology of the prehistoric state of Tiwanaku / Krysztof Makowski Hanula -- SAIS, the origin, development, and dating of Tiahuanaco-Huari iconography / William H. Isbell and Patricia J. Knobloch -- Wari and Tiwanaku borderlands / Patrick Ryan Williams -- The bird and the camelid (or deer) : a ranked pair of Wari tapestry tunics / Susan E. Bergh -- From Tiwanaku to Machu Picchu : ushnus and the architecture of creation / John Hoopes.
Series:
Symposium series / Mayer Center for Pre-Columbian & Spanish Colonial Art at the Denver Art Museum
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