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Author : Ann Kendall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (835 download)
Download or read book Aspects of Inca Architecture written by Ann Kendall and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Graziano Gasparini
Publisher : Bloomington : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Inca Architecture written by Graziano Gasparini and published by Bloomington : Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stella Nair
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1477302506
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (773 download)
Download or read book At Home with the Sapa Inca written by Stella Nair and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2015-07-01 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By examining the stunning stone buildings and dynamic spaces of the royal estate of Chinchero, Nair brings to light the rich complexity of Inca architecture. This investigation ranges from the paradigms of Inca scholarship and a summary of Inca cultural practices to the key events of Topa Inca's reign and the many individual elements of Chinchero's extraordinary built environment. What emerges are the subtle, often sophisticated ways in which the Inca manipulated space and architecture in order to impose their authority, identity, and agenda. The remains of grand buildings, as well as a series of deft architectural gestures in the landscape, reveal the unique places that were created within the royal estate and how one space deeply informed the other. These dynamic settings created private places for an aging ruler to spend time with a preferred wife and son, while also providing impressive spaces for imperial theatrics that reiterated the power of Topa Inca, the choice of his preferred heir, and the ruler's close relationship with sacred forces. This careful study of architectural details also exposes several false paradigms that have profoundly misguided how we understand Inca architecture, including the belief that it ended with the arrival of Spaniards in the Andes. Instead, Nair reveals how, amidst the entanglement and violence of the European encounter, an indigenous town emerged that was rooted in Inca ways of understanding space, place, and architecture and that paid homage to a landscape that defined home for Topa Inca.
Author : Jean-Pierre Protzen
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Inca Architecture and Construction at Ollantaytambo written by Jean-Pierre Protzen and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1993 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This architectural study attempts to explain how the Incas, who did not have iron tools or a knowledge of the wheel, were able to mine and transport extremely heavy stone and rock, following which these materials were converted into remarkably large structures.
Author : Johanna Dehlinger
Publisher : kassel university press GmbH
ISBN 13 : 3899586697
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (995 download)
Download or read book Architecture - Design Methods - Inca Structures. Festschrift for Jean-Pierre Protzen written by Johanna Dehlinger and published by kassel university press GmbH. This book was released on 2009 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Festschrift is a collection of essays in honor of Jean-Pierre Protzen on the occasion of his 75th birthday.
Author : Ann Kendall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Aspects of Inca Architecture written by Ann Kendall and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ann Kendall
Publisher : BAR International Series
ISBN 13 : 9781407391182
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (911 download)
Download or read book Aspects of Inca Architecture, Part Ii written by Ann Kendall and published by BAR International Series. This book was released on 1985-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Susan A. Niles
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 9781587292941
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (929 download)
Download or read book The Shape of Inca History written by Susan A. Niles and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Shape of Inca History, Susan Niles considers the ways in which the Inca concept of history informed their narratives, rituals, and architecture. Using sixteenth-century chronicles of Inca culture, legal documents from the first generation of conquest, and field investigation of architectural remains, she strategically explores the interplay of oral and written histories with the architectural record and provides a new and exciting understanding of the lives of the royal families on the eve of conquest.Niles focuses on the life of Huayna Capac, the Inca king who ruled at the time of the first European incursions on the Andean coast. Because he died just a few years before the Spaniards overturned the Inca world, eyewitness accounts of his deeds as recorded by the invaders can be used to separate fact from propaganda. The rich documentary sources telling of his life include extraordinarily detailed legal records that inventory lands on his estate in the Yucay Valley. These sources provide a basis—unique in the Andes—for reconstructing the social and physical plan of the estate and for dating its construction exactly.Huayna Capac's country palace shows a design different from that devised by his ancestors. Niles argues that the radical stylistic and technical innovations documented in the buildings themselves can be understood by referring to the turbulent political atmosphere prevalent at the time of his accession. Illustrated with numerous photographs and reconstruction drawings, The Shape of Inca History breaks new ground by proposing that Inca royal style was dynamic and that the design of an Inca building can best be interpreted by its historical context. In this way it is possible to recreate the development of Inca architectural style over time.
Author : Terence N. D'Altroy
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1444331159
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (443 download)
Download or read book The Incas written by Terence N. D'Altroy and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-05-27 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Incas is a captivating exploration of one of the greatest civilizations ever seen. Seamlessly drawing on history, archaeology, and ethnography, this thoroughly updated new edition integrates advances made in hundreds of new studies conducted over the last decade. • Written by one of the world’s leading experts on Inca civilization • Covers Inca history, politics, economy, ideology, society, and military organization • Explores advances in research that include pre-imperial Inca society; the royal capital of Cuzco; the sacred landscape; royal estates; Machu Picchu; provincial relations; the khipu information-recording technology; languages, time frames, gender relations, effects on human biology, and daily life • Explicitly examines how the Inca world view and philosophy affected the character of the empire • Illustrated with over 90 maps, figures, and photographs
Author : Carolyn J Dean
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822393174
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)
Download or read book A Culture of Stone written by Carolyn J Dean and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2010-10-21 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major contribution to both art history and Latin American studies, A Culture of Stone offers sophisticated new insights into Inka culture and the interpretation of non-Western art. Carolyn Dean focuses on rock outcrops masterfully integrated into Inka architecture, exquisitely worked masonry, and freestanding sacred rocks, explaining how certain stones took on lives of their own and played a vital role in the unfolding of Inka history. Examining the multiple uses of stone, she argues that the Inka understood building in stone as a way of ordering the chaos of unordered nature, converting untamed spaces into domesticated places, and laying claim to new territories. Dean contends that understanding what the rocks signified requires seeing them as the Inka saw them: as potentially animate, sentient, and sacred. Through careful analysis of Inka stonework, colonial-period accounts of the Inka, and contemporary ethnographic and folkloric studies of indigenous Andean culture, Dean reconstructs the relationships between stonework and other aspects of Inka life, including imperial expansion, worship, and agriculture. She also scrutinizes meanings imposed on Inka stone by the colonial Spanish and, later, by tourism and the tourist industry. A Culture of Stone is a compelling multidisciplinary argument for rethinking how we see and comprehend the Inka past.
Author : Ann Kendall
Publisher : BAR International Series
ISBN 13 : 9781407391175
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (911 download)
Download or read book Aspects of Inca Architecture, Part i written by Ann Kendall and published by BAR International Series. This book was released on 1985-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Laura Laurencich Minelli
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806132211
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (322 download)
Download or read book The Inca World written by Laura Laurencich Minelli and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lavishly illustrated volume, based on extensive archeological research and Spanish colonial documentation, provides important insights into many questions and contradictions regarding the Inca Empire. 337 illustrations, 106 in color. 12 maps.
Author : Andrew James Hamilton
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691172730
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)
Download or read book Scale and the Incas written by Andrew James Hamilton and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking work on how the topic of scale provides an entirely new understanding of Inca material culture Although questions of form and style are fundamental to art history, the issue of scale has been surprisingly neglected. Yet, scale and scaled relationships are essential to the visual cultures of many societies from around the world, especially in the Andes. In Scale and the Incas, Andrew Hamilton presents a groundbreaking theoretical framework for analyzing scale, and then applies this approach to Inca art, architecture, and belief systems. The Incas were one of humanity's great civilizations, but their lack of a written language has prevented widespread appreciation of their sophisticated intellectual tradition. Expansive in scope, this book examines many famous works of Inca art including Machu Picchu and the Dumbarton Oaks tunic, more enigmatic artifacts like the Sayhuite Stone and Capacocha offerings, and a range of relatively unknown objects in diverse media including fiber, wood, feathers, stone, and metalwork. Ultimately, Hamilton demonstrates how the Incas used scale as an effective mode of expression in their vast multilingual and multiethnic empire. Lavishly illustrated with stunning color plates created by the author, the book's pages depict artifacts alongside scale markers and silhouettes of hands and bodies, allowing readers to gauge scale in multiple ways. The pioneering visual and theoretical arguments of Scale and the Incas not only rewrite understandings of Inca art, but also provide a benchmark for future studies of scale in art from other cultures.
Author : Norah Romney
Publisher : DTTV PUBLICATIONS
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Ancient Advanced Technology in South America written by Norah Romney and published by DTTV PUBLICATIONS. This book was released on 2021-02-13 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are a host of ancient ruins in South America, claimed by the Inca, inherited by the Inca, conquered by the Inca and built by the Inca. Although one label has stuck on each monument or ancient site, it is clear there are many layers of construction, physically and conceptually. Academics and Scholars still debate who built these, monuments, did they inherit them? Was there a Pre-Inca culture, but everyone can appreciate how advanced the ‘Inca Ancient Ruins’ found in the highlands of South America. The Inca were largest empire ever seen in the Americas and the largest in the world at that time, yet doubt is cast on their monuments and origins. Tiahuanaco, a region of Bolivia that holds many remnants of ancient civilizations, demonstrates some of the most unique and amazingly precise examples of stonework in the world. The ancient people who created these walls and buildings used such a high degree of mathematical expertise that the workmanship is astounding even to modern day people. They marvel at how the stone-cutters from long ago created all of it with simple hand tools.The high plains of Peru and Bolivia in the Andes Mountains holds a wealth of historical sites, each one more amazing than the next. Scholars and archaeologists had only seen the same type of masonry in ancient Egypt before this. Although some historians call this Inca architecture, this later time period civilization had little to do with creating these fantastic structures. The Incas dominated this area from approximately the 13th to 14th centuries AD up until the time of the Spanish explorers' conquest of the region. Indeed, they built some magnificent structures, but the ones most interesting for their precision and longevity came from even older groups. Some of these empires were called the Wari and the Tiahuanaco. They existed hundreds or even thousands of years before the Inca came to power.Multiple historians who specialize in architectural studies have dedicated a lot of their time and knowledge to figuring out how ancient groups of people who did not use advanced tools or even the wheel could create such structures. The most advanced chisels and hammers of the time would have been created from copper, stone, and wood. With these simple hand tools, people dug granite, andesite, and porphyry out of quarries. After transporting them to the final locations, they then carved them with smooth precision so they would fit together almost seamlessly.What techniques could these ancient experts use to make such flat and smooth surfaces, exact angles, and joints that would not allow a single blade of grass to squeeze between? Historians can only guess about some of the methods that allowed for such unique stone cutting and building styles.
Author : Adam Herring
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107094364
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Art and Vision in the Inca Empire written by Adam Herring and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-05-22 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a new, art-historical interpretation of pre-contact Inca culture and power and includes over sixty color images.
Author : David M. Jones
Publisher : Southwater
ISBN 13 : 9781780191386
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (913 download)
Download or read book The Art and Architecture of the Incas written by David M. Jones and published by Southwater. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated history of arts, crafts and design of the first peoples of South America. ,
Author : Susan A. Niles
Publisher : Iowa University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Callachaca written by Susan A. Niles and published by Iowa University Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inca constructions, designed to conform to a state aesthetic, reveal the worldview of these masters of social and architectural engineering. In her meticulous analysis of CallachacaOCothe fifteenth-century estate of the royal Amaro Topa Inca and his retainers near the ancient capital of CuzcoOCoSusan Niles shows us that the physical order seen in this planned community reflects the Inca vision of an appropriate social order. "Callachaca: Style and Status in an Inca Community" will be valuable reading for archaeologists, art historians, geographers, architects with an interest in pre-Columbian cultures, landscape architects, anthropologists, folklorists, and historians with a special interest in the Andes. Since she focuses on all the varied architectural remains at one site in the Inca heartland, Niles provides a unique model for examining royal Inca architecture and society."
