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Re-creating the Word: Painted Ceramics of the Prehistoric Southwest
by Barbara L. Moulard (Introduction: Bill Schenck)
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Schenck Southwest Publishing (2006-09-01)
ISBN: 0971915008
EAN: 9780971915008
Hardcover: 240 pages
Edition: 1st
SKU: 81408000240
Condition: Fine
Comments: 0971915008 New, never read, may have minor wear on cover.
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Product Description
Re-Creating the Word: Painted Ceramics of the Prehistoric Southwest is a survey of prehistoric ceramic art created by anonymous artists of the Southwest. Through an analysis of the ceramic artworks, author Barbara L. Moulard examines the cultural and mythological traditions and worldviews of the Hohokam, Mogollon, and Pueblo (Anasazi) societies. This book introduces fresh discussion and interpretation of prehistoric Southwest ceramics, and new insight and appreciation of the artisans and societies that created them.The 130 artworks presented here have been culled from thousands of examples for more than thirty years. They are some of the most exquisite prehistoric ceramics known to exist, and span a time period of nine hundred years from roughly A.D. 750 to 1680. In Re-Creating the Word, you will see twenty-eight Mimbres bowls, the finest group of Sikyatki Polychromes ever assembled in a private collection, and beautiful and rare Salado, Hohokam, and White Mountain Red Wares.
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Specialty college-level art holdings will find it indispensable.
Rating  (5)
Date: 2006-10-16
Prehistoric ceramic art created by anonymous artists of the Southwest rarely receives its own focus and usually receives passing mention in larger studies of Southwest archaeology or art, so it's satisfying to see a study devoted entirely to the topic in RE-CREATING THE WORD: PAINTED CERAMICS OF THE PREHISTORIC SOUTHWEST. Full-page color photo displays of surviving ceramics accompany commentary by the author, a freelance exhibit curator and adjunct faculty associate of the Art Department at Arizona State University. Specialty college-level art holdings will find it indispensable.
Diane C. Donovan
California Bookwatch
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