Indigenous visual culture in Latin America : seeing, being, and meaning /
"The study of Indigenous visual culture has historically been dominated by iconographic approaches focused on the appearance of things, attempting to interpret what is being represented. (Is that a peccary? A serpent?) The goal of this volume is to consider what might lie beyond representationa...
| Other Authors: | , |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Austin :
University of Texas Press,
[2026]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | "The study of Indigenous visual culture has historically been dominated by iconographic approaches focused on the appearance of things, attempting to interpret what is being represented. (Is that a peccary? A serpent?) The goal of this volume is to consider what might lie beyond representationalist interpretations by exploring other ways that objects and images may have functioned within ancient Latin America. (This is why the book does not have chapters about perhaps the two most prominent traditions of Latin American Indigenous art, that of the Maya or Moche.) Contributors to this edited volume emphasize materiality, in which meaning inheres, at least partially, in the physical substance of a work; process, in which the interaction between maker and material are co-constitutive; relationality, in which materials and viewers are understood to co-construct meaning; and intersubjectivity, in which artworks are viewed as sentient, agentic, and/or efficacious by the people who made, viewed, used, and interacted with them"-- |
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| Physical Description: | pages cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781477333082 1477333088 |