HISTART 88 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Chavín De Huantar, Echinopsis Pachanoi, Walter Alva
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History of art 88 lecture 5 moche art (andes): luxury arts, figural mimesis, Tumi: ritual knife of the moche (echoed in the headdresses and garments of the. Orality: tradition of narrative and oral accounts. Existed from roughly 250 to 850 ce (at least 650 years later than the thriving civilization of chavin de hunatar, though roughly the same time as the. Teotihuacan culture and the classic period of the maya) The moche were located primarily on the coast. Moche fragments display an inheritance of chavin values, especially supernatural deities and forces. Though once thought to be a centralized kingdom, it is now hypothesized that. Moche was composed of a series of interrelated polities. Art primarily inscribed on items of social use. Painted adobe relief, huaca de la luna, ca. Fanged divinity with condors, huaca cao viejo, adobe mural painting, ca.
