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Decoding Mimbres painting : ancient ceramics of the American Southwest /

"This generously illustrated book explores the pottery of the Mimbres people and offers new insight into its imagery. Named after a valley in what is now Southwestern New Mexico, the Mimbres culture flourished between the 9th and 12th centuries. Through the exploration of paintings on Mimbres b...

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Corporate Authors: Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Group Author: Berlant, Anthony (Curator); Maurer, Evan M. (Curator); Burtenshaw, Julia (Curator); Wynn, Thomas (Curator); Thomas, Nancy
Published: DelMonico Books/Prestel,
Publisher Address: Munich :
Publication Dates: 2018.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Subjects:
Mimbres culture > Exhibitions.
Mimbres pottery > Exhibitions.
Nature in art > Exhibitions.
Visions in art > Exhibitions.
Summary: "This generously illustrated book explores the pottery of the Mimbres people and offers new insight into its imagery. Named after a valley in what is now Southwestern New Mexico, the Mimbres culture flourished between the 9th and 12th centuries. Through the exploration of paintings on Mimbres bowls, this book offers revelations about the culture's worldview based on the patterns and shapes depicted in their pottery. Drawing on extensive research as well as photography of the flora and fauna that still thrive in the Mimbres valley, the authors make the case that the pottery's beautiful black-and-white paintings and highly intricate designs are abstractions of visual experiences--some seen in the natural world and others generated by trance-like states brought on by ingesting the datura plant. Presenting a distinctive new interpretation of the iconography of ancient Mimbres painted ceramics, this volume addresses Mimbres culture and how this past civilization lived and communicated with the spirit world"--
Item Description: Published in conjunction with the exhibition Decoding Mimbres Painting: Ancient Ceramics of the American Southwest at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, May 20, 2018-September 16, 2018.
Carrier Form: 111 pages : color illustrations, map ; 28 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 104-107).
ISBN: 9783791357430 (hardcover) :
3791357433 (hardcover)
Index Number: E99
CLC: K887.126.3-28
Call Number: K887.126.3-28/D296
Contents: Decoding Mimbres painting /
The Datura plant --
Datura pollinators --
Other plants --
The trance state experience --
Story bowls --
A lexicon of forms in the Mimbres Valley and beyond --
Identifying Mimbres artists.

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