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Art and Vision in the Inca Empire: Andeans and Europeans at Cajamarca

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In 1500 CE, the Inca empire covered so much of South The usa’s Andean region. The empire’s leaders first met Europeans on November 15, 1532, when a big Inca army confronted Francisco Pizarro’s band of adventurers within the highland Andean valley of Cajamarca, Peru. At few other times in its history would the Inca royal leadership so aggressively showcase its moral authority and political power. Glittering and truculent, what Europeans witnessed at Inca Cajamarca compels revised understandings of pre-contact Inca visual art, spatial practice, and bodily expression. This book takes a fresh have a look at the encounter at Cajamarca, the usage of the episode to supply a new, art-historical interpretation of pre-contact Inca culture and power. Adam Herring’s observe offers close readings of Inca and Andean art in plenty of media: architecture and landscape, geoglyphs, sculpture, textiles, ceramics, featherwork, and metalwork. The amount is richly illustrated with over sixty color images.

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