Painting the Cosmos
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Guacamayo
Joaquin style
Macaracas
Mendoza Ware
Panama
polychrome design
Pre-Columbian art
shamanism
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- ISBN 9780826367143
- Dimensions: 229 x 305mm
- Publication Date: 31 Jan 2025
- Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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The result of decades of study, Alan Grinnell's Painting the Cosmos presents the spectacular and underappreciated art of Panama and its revealing iconography. Emphasizing brightly painted polychrome designs with complex iconography on myriad ceramic forms, the art of Central Panama (ca. 200 BCE-1400 CE) is highly distinctive compared to other pre-Columbian cultures. The book illustrates more than eight hundred vessels in full color, many of which will be unfamiliar even to pre-Columbian specialists, and proposes interpretations of the iconography informed by the archaeology, history, and ethnohistory of the region. In these animistic cultures, much of the iconography reflected interactions of humans with the natural world. The author identifies persistent design themes that reflect the myths and beliefs of these ancient peoples.
Enriched by current scholarship, this beautifully produced volume fills a major gap in the knowledge of and appreciation for the art and cultures of the ancient Americas. It serves as both an introduction to this unique and relatively unknown culture and a resource for scholars in pre-Columbian history, art, and culture.
Enriched by current scholarship, this beautifully produced volume fills a major gap in the knowledge of and appreciation for the art and cultures of the ancient Americas. It serves as both an introduction to this unique and relatively unknown culture and a resource for scholars in pre-Columbian history, art, and culture.
Alan Grinnell has been on the faculty of the University of California Los Angeles since 1964, where he is now a Distinguished Research Professor and the Associate Dean of Life Sciences emeritus. His interest in ancient American cultures led to his being named a research associate of UCLA's Fowler Museum of Cultural History in 1990.
