Abstract
Andean art encompasses aesthetic and technical masterpieces of first order. Even before the end of the 19th century the more representational art traditions of ancient Peru had become favorites of great museums as well as private collectors. Ancient sites adorned with exotic sculptures attracted travelers, scholars, and adventurers. The quality of precolumbian textiles is unsurpassed in world history. Many precolumbian ceramics are among the most lovely, whimsical, and sensual ever created. Given these appreciations, it is perplexing that Andean art has not stimulated the pervasive, rigorous, detailed, systematic, art-oriented study and analysis that is characteristic of the Old World (e.g., Classical Antiquity, Late Antiquity, Oriental, Medieval and Renaissance Europe) as well as Mesoamerica. Anthropologists and art historians dedicated to the Central Andes have some significant catching up to do.
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Silverman, H., Isbell, W.H. (2002). Introduction. In: Silverman, H., Isbell, W.H. (eds) Andean Archaeology II. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0597-6_2
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