{"product_id":"image-encounters-lisa-trever-9781477324271","title":"Image Encounters: Moche Murals and Archaeo Art History","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2022 Mr. and Mrs. Raymond J. Horowitz Book Prize, Bard Graduate Center\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eA landmark study of ancient Peruvian Moche mural art.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Moche murals of northern Peru represent one of the great, yet still largely unknown, artistic traditions of the ancient Americas. Created in an era without written scripts, these murals are key to understandings of Moche history, society, and culture. In this first comprehensive study on the subject, Lisa Trever develops an interdisciplinary methodology of \"archaeo art history\" to examine how ancient histories of art can be written without texts, boldly inverting the typical relationship of art to archaeology. \u003cp\u003e Trever argues that early coastal artistic traditions cannot be reduced uncritically to interpretations based in much later Inca histories of the Andean highlands. Instead, the author seeks the origins of Moche mural art, and its emphasis on figuration, in the deep past of the Pacific coast of South America. \u003ci\u003eImage Encounters\u003c\/i\u003e shows how formal transformations in Moche mural art, before and after the seventh century, were part of broader changes to the work that images were made to perform at Huacas de Moche, El Brujo, Pamarca, and elsewhere in an increasingly complex social and political world. In doing so, this book reveals alternative evidentiary foundations for histories of art and visual experience. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lisa Trever\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1477324275\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781477324271\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Texas Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/08\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 344\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.90h x 8.50w x 0.70d","brand":"Lisa Trever","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44049919508735,"sku":"9781477324271","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d57d8247-43ec-4306-bda1-ecd1cff8dd08.jpg?v=1685004162","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/image-encounters-lisa-trever-9781477324271","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}