La sierra de Ancash y los inicios del estudio del arte precolombino
- Submitting institution
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The University of East Anglia
- Unit of assessment
- 25 - Area Studies
- Output identifier
- 186059369
- Type
- C - Chapter in book
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- Book title
- El arte antes de la historia. Para una historia del arte andino antiguo
- Publisher
- Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Fondo Editorial
- ISBN
- 9786123176259
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2020
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- Yes
- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
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- Non-English
- Yes
- English abstract
- This critical essay examines early theorization of Pre-Columbian art. Early antiquarians and traveller-writers saw Ancash Department of northern Peru, particularly, as a crucial laboratory to help define ‘art’ and ‘civilization’ as concepts. Artworks acted as measures of cultural achievement, chronological markers and expressions of religious cosmology. By the 1920s, JC Tello integrated pioneering art historical discussion into archaeological models about ancient cultural systems, corporate styles and autochthonous Andean civilization. This essay concludes that the record of ancient objects and monuments from Ancash, considered Pre-Columbian ‘art,’ were instrumental for the beginnings of scholarly appreciation of ancient Peru and ‘art before history’.
