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This art rose to its greatest heights in Peru and Mexico. In Peru it is principally found in the shape of potteries, in many cases admirably sculpted into human heads or human figures, or into animals. Many of these are sculptural; many are caricatural; some, showing the effects of disease, are pathological. These P'eruvian heads, curiously enough, often resemble European heads, and one might ascribe them to Spanish influence had not such quan tities been dug up in prehistoric graves. In Mexico, besides potteries, there are some pictures and many stone sculptures. Some of the heads are grandly done and resemble Egyptian heads. Much of the Mexican art, unfortunately, is loath some and hideous. The motives are snakes and death's heads. It is not art which has evolved in these carvings, but an attempt to bring out in stone some ghastly super stitions which must have been rampant through Central America. There is some evidence that the death's heads were related to cannibalism. At any rate, a study of their art has made me feel that Cortez did a rather good work when he wiped out old Mexican civilization, and that it is useless to waste sympathy on such a gang of toughs as Montezuma and the Aztec priests. I consider some phases of Mexican art as the lowest and most degraded ever reached by any art.
Along the Arctic we find the art of the Eskimo, a race probably allied to the North Asiatics; and along the shores of Alaska, we find an art which, while it has some Mexican traits, showing some cousinship to Mexican art, yet in themain is related closely to the art of the Brown races, the Polynesians and the Australasians generally; to the art of New Zealand, of Rapa Nui, of Papua, and of Hawaii.
The second division of my subject is the art of the intrusive white races of Europe, which its makers brought with them across the Atlantic into the New World. This is the ems, which cannot be termed correctly Colonial art, because it is really nothing-but-transplanted European art.
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This art rose to its greatest heights in Peru and Mexico. In Peru it is principally found in the shape of potteries, in many cases admirably sculpted into human heads or human figures, or into animals. Many of these are sculptural; many are caricatural; some, showing the effects of disease, are pathological. These P'eruvian heads, curiously enough, often resemble European heads, and one might ascribe them to Spanish influence had not such quan tities been dug up in prehistoric graves. In Mexico, besides potteries, there are some pictures and many stone sculptures. Some of the heads are grandly done and resemble Egyptian heads. Much of the Mexican art, unfortunately, is loath some and hideous. The motives are snakes and death's heads. It is not art which has evolved in these carvings, but an attempt to bring out in stone some ghastly super stitions which must have been rampant through Central America. There is some evidence that the death's heads were related to cannibalism. At any rate, a study of their art has made me feel that Cortez did a rather good work when he wiped out old Mexican civilization, and that it is useless to waste sympathy on such a gang of toughs as Montezuma and the Aztec priests. I consider some phases of Mexican art as the lowest and most degraded ever reached by any art.
Along the Arctic we find the art of the Eskimo, a race probably allied to the North Asiatics; and along the shores of Alaska, we find an art which, while it has some Mexican traits, showing some cousinship to Mexican art, yet in themain is related closely to the art of the Brown races, the Polynesians and the Australasians generally; to the art of New Zealand, of Rapa Nui, of Papua, and of Hawaii.
The second division of my subject is the art of the intrusive white races of Europe, which its makers brought with them across the Atlantic into the New World. This is the ems, which cannot be termed correctly Colonial art, because it is really nothing-but-transplanted European art.
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Art in America before the Revolution, as a subject for study, divides itself perforce into two divisions. The first is the native indigenous art, the art of the American Indians, or Amerinds, as some ethnologists now call them, which is prehistoric to the landing of the Northmen on the American continent, which still lingers in some places, but which is gradually dying out with its makers. This art extended all over America, from Patagonia to Canada. Except perhaps in Alaska and along the Arctic it is practically one art, the art of the Red men. It varies locally, so that one may say that there are several subdivisions of this art, but it is always sufficiently similar as to make it almost certain that it is the art of one race. It is also sufficiently distinct from the arts of the races of the Old World as to make it almost certain that it is probably mainly an autochthonous art; that is, an art which grew up on the soil and was not imported.
One wave of this art at one period flowed over the; plains of the Mississippi and the Ohio rivers, namely the cart of the Moundbuilders, among whose mounds some most interesting potteries and sculptures have been found.
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Paperback. Condición: New. Print on Demand. This book extensively explores the history of art in America before the Revolutionary War. The author takes a close look at the development of two distinct art forms: the indigenous art of the American Indians and the imported art of the intruding European white races. The author details how these art forms evolved over time, the influences that shaped them, and the techniques used by the artists. The author also provides biographical sketches of some of the most prominent artists of the period and analyzes their work within the broader context of art history. The insights provided in this book offer a deeper understanding of the role art played in shaping the cultural landscape of early America. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book. print-on-demand item. Nº de ref. del artículo: 9781331664987_0
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