Andean art
Subtitle: visual expression and its relation to Andean beliefs and values
By: edited by Penny Dransart.
Contributors: Dransart, Penny.
Series: Worldwide archaeology series ;; 13
Publisher: Avebury
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Aldershot; Brookfield, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 317
Subjects: Indian art -- Andes Region -- Congresses.; Art, Andean -- Congresses.; Indians of South America -- Andes Region -- Antiquities -- Congresses.; Andes Region -- Antiquities -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Description: The aim of the book is to explore various facets of artistic expression (ranging temporally from four thousand years ago to the present day) in the Andean regions of South America, based on themes: social contexts, cultural expressions, recontextualisation, construction and meaning, and the role of art in the creation and animation of Andean landscapes.

The various authors also move towards an archaeology, anthropology, or art history of visual expression that allows for an assessment of self-critical and reflexive developments on the part of the people who produced the artistic works under consideration. These visual worlds they created and continue to create make art in the Andes a fruitful and exciting field of study.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
"... revised versions of papers presented at the symposium 'Arte andino - expresión visual y su relación con las creencias y valores andinos', organised ... under the auspices of the forty sixth [or rather, forty seventh] International Congress of Americanists at Tulane University, New Orleans, USA, in July 1990" - editor's note.