| Pre-Columbian Art of the Caribbean Contributor(s): Waldron, Lawrence (Author) |
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ISBN: 1683400542 ISBN-13: 9781683400547 Publisher: University of Florida Press OUR PRICE: $123.75 Product Type: Hardcover Published: April 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Caribbean & West Indies - General - Art | Caribbean & Latin American - Social Science | Archaeology |
| Dewey: 972.901 |
| LCCN: 2018010073 |
| Series: Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen |
| Physical Information: 1.2" H x 6.2" W x 9.3" (1.70 lbs) 448 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Abundantly illustrated, this volume is a pioneering survey of the ancient art of the entire Caribbean region. While previous studies have focused on the Greater Antilles--Cuba, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, and Jamaica--this is the first book also to include the islands of the eastern Caribbean and their ties to pre-Columbian Venezuela. Unlike prior art historical research that overwhelmingly emphasized the colonial period onward, this ambitious overview traces 4,000 years of the region's early Indigenous heritage before the Spanish conquest. Lawrence Waldron examines ceramics, ritual spaces, sculpture, and personal adornment from the ancient Saladoid era to the later, better-known Ta no period. Analyzing the symbolism, aesthetics, and cultural contexts of objects including ceremonial pots, rock art, stone effigy belts, and jewelry, he illuminates continuities and innovations in imagery and ideology across time and space. He draws attention to the legacies of Amerindian visual and material culture in the architecture and furniture of the present-day Caribbean, arguing that the region's ancient art history is rich and worthy of attention. A volume in the Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series |
Contributor Bio(s): Waldron, Lawrence: - Lawrence Waldron, assistant professor of art history at Queens College of the City University of New York, is the author of Handbook of Ceramic Animal Symbols in the Ancient Lesser Antilles. |