HISTART 88 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Pachacuti, Chimor, Llama
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History of art 88 lecture 7 incan art (peru, bolivia, ecuador, chile, argentina) Lithomorphosis: fluid transition from stone to man and man to stone. Ceque lines: conceptual lines that do not exist in reality, but in imagination, and. Tocapu: square sign block (meaningful, but without literary connotation) portray the unfolding of time in cuzco. Sican emphasized the importance of the essence of material, notwithstanding its use (ex. 1470ce: king pachacuti defeats the chancas through divine intervention (rocks rise, morph into soldiers, win the battle, and return to stone) The disappearance of the figure (beyond the elusive image ) In chimu (and continued in incan tradtition), images of gods disappeared because rulers came to be viewed as living deities. Continued in the mythological creation-story of the inca. Woven inca crown maskaypacha , wool, 16th c. See don marcos chiguan topa, 18th c. peru.
