Andean art at Dumbarton Oaks
By: Elizabeth Hill Boone, editor.
Contributors: Boone, Elizabeth Hill.
Series: Pre-Columbian art at Dumbarton Oaks ;; no. 1
Publisher: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 497
Subjects: Robert Woods Bliss Collection of Pre-Columbian Art.; Indian art -- Andes Region.; Art, Andean.; Indians of South America -- Andes Region -- Antiquities.; Indians -- Museums -- Washington (D.C.); Andes Region -- Antiquities.
Description: "The first of four catalogs documenting each piece in the Bliss Collection, work includes topical essays on the collector's perspective (E.H. Boone), the Andean world and technology of metal and cloth (H. Lechtman), textile structure and meaning (W.J. Conklin), and Peruvian textile art (A.P. Rowe). Object descriptions grouped by cultural affiliation include technological data, iconography, cultural significance, and reference to similar objects elsewhere"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 471-489) and index.