Casas Grandes and the Ceramic Art of the Ancient Southwest (Published in Association with The Art Institute of Chicago)
Contributors: Ken Kokrda (Contributor); Barbara Moulard (Contributor); Richard F. Townsend (Editor)
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: November 11, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780300111484
Subjects: Ceramic arts, pottery, glass; Crafts & Hobbies; Art & Art Instruction; Hobbies/Crafts; Western & Pacific Coast states; American - Hispanic American; American - Hispanic-American; Ceramics; History - Ancient & Classical; Art / General; Pottery & Ceramics; Indian pottery; Mexico; Southwest, New
Description: "This illustrated catalogue focuses on the ceramic works of the Casas Grandes region of northwest Mexico, which flourished at the ancient site of Paquime, around A.D. 1280-1450." "In the accompanying essays, expert art historians and an artist-teacher discuss the complex imagery of approximately 80 Casas Grandes vessels with 60 pieces representing other major styles of the Greater Southwest. Superb examples show polychromatic designs of real and mythological animals, together with abstract human figures and remarkably varied geometries, demonstrating the imaginative complexity and exceptional achievement of the Casas Grandes potters. Certain motifs reflect affinities with distant Mesoamerica, yet the authors show that these forms were absorbed into a visual vocabulary that reflected the unique artistic and cosmological outlook of Casas Grandes, within the native Southwestern cultural tradition."--BOOK JACKET.