Within the Underworld Sky: Mimbres Ceramic Art in Context [SOLD]

Within the Underworld Sky—Mimbres Ceramic Art in Context

Barbara L. Moulard

Twelvetrees Press, Pasadena

Hardback with slip cover, first edition, 1984, printing limited to 3000 copies, 159 pages, 100 full page photographs of Prehistoric pottery, oversize book (12” x 12”), excellent condition.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Lee Anne Wilson

Acknowledgments

Mimbres Ceramics in Context: An Introduction

Mimbres Painted Pottery: An Iconographic Interpretation

Map/Graphs

The Plates

Plate descriptions

Notes

Selected Bibliography

From the Book

There are many theoretical approaches to the study of art history, but the two main elements of an art historical investigation are stylistic analysis and iconographic interpretation.  Stylistic analysis describes works of art in terms of such formal characteristics as line, shape, color, volume, mass, light and texture. Iconographic interpretation attempts to understand the intrinsic meanings of objects or designs. It is these two levels of interpretation that Moulard’s study is concerned.