Mimbres Painted Pottery
Edition: Revised edition
Publisher: School of American Research Press
Published: March 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9781930618275
Subjects: Sociology; Mimbres pottery; Social Science; Crafts / Hobbies; Southwest, New; Pottery & Ceramics; Mimbres culture; Ethnic Studies - Native American Studies
Description: A distinguished scholar of Southwestern Native arts for over thirty years, J.J. Brody here returns to his early work on the Mimbres ceramic tradition, which established him as the leading authority on the arts of this ancient people. The Mimbres cultural florescence between A.D. 1000 and A.D. 1140 remains one of the most visually astonishing and anthropologically intriguing questions in Southwest prehistory. In this revised edition, Dr. Brody incorporates the extensive fieldwork done on Mimbres sites since the original publication in 1977, updating his discussion of village life, the larger world in which the Mimbres people lived, and how the art that they practiced illuminates these wider issues. He addresses human and animal iconography, the importance of perspective and motion in perceiving Mimbres artistry, and the technology used to produce the ceramics. Placing the study of ancient art and artifacts in the present, he notes the impact of the antiquities market on archaeological and artistic research.