Proulx, Donald A.,  1939- <br/><br/>
A sourcebook of Nasca ceramic iconography :  reading a culture through its art / 
Donald A. Proulx. 
 - xii, 236 pages, 15 unnumbered pages of plates :  illustrations (some colour), maps ;  29 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-228) and index. 
<br/><br/>Overview of the Nasca culture -- Nasca pottery and its artistic canons -- The discovery of the Nasca style and its chronological placement -- Approaches to the interpretation of Nasca iconography -- A description and interpretation of the major themes in Nasca ceramic iconography -- New insights on Nasca society. 
<br/><br/> For almost eight hundred years Nasca artists modeled and painted the plants and animals of their homeland on Peru's south coast, as well as numerous abstract anthropomorphic creatures whose form and meaning are often incomprehensible today. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0877459797 9780877459798 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2006044599 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Idols and images--Peru<br/>Nazca culture<br/>Nazca pottery--Themes, motives
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Peru--Antiquities
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>F3429.3.P8  / P76 2006 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>985