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Midterm - Vocab Flashcards

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Q’ariwarmi / complementarity

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Q’ari - man
Warmi - woman
Females aren’t less, they are necessary for each other.

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Contour Rivalry

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An image may be viewed as depicting one thing when viewed in a certain way; but if the image is flipped or turned, the same lines that formed the previous image now make up an entirely new design.

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Visual Metaphoric Substitution

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  • when the object doesn’t match the function
    ex snakes for hair -
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Embroidery

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  • figures distinct from background
  • art of decorating textile fabric by means of a needle and thread
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Block Color Style

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Paracas
- distinct figures

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Linear Style

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Paracas
- repeating geometric designs
- blending of background & figures

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Pendant (eccentric) eyes

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  • Hallucinogenics (chavin de huantar)
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Sacred Geography

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mountains!

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Stele

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an upright stone slab or column typically bearing a commemorative inscription or relief design.

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Frieze

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a broad horizontal band of sculpted or painted decoration, especially on a wall near the ceiling.

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Tapestry

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When the horizontal threads of a weave are more dominant

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Post-firing pigmentation

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  • When a ceramic is pigmented after it is fired (not durable)
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Subtractive Process

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Removal of the earth to make the shapes visible

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Niched Halls

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Pikillacta - WARI
- lineage halls where everyone came to formally worship their ancestors

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Mummy Bundles

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  • Paracas
  • shows status
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Qumpi

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High quality textile - high thread count

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Akllakuna

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Inka women who were conscripted to weave for the state (often relocated)

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Unku

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inka checkerboard tapestry

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Tukapu / Tokapu

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Textile style: grid-like, geometric
- Division of space
- Complex but ordered
- Shows multiple identities

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Art by Intention

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Art by Appropriation

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Horizon

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The spread of cultural values within an area / majority

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Geoglyph

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A geoglyph is a large design or motif produced on the ground by durable elements of the landscape, such as stones, stone fragments, gravel, or earth.

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Integrated Rock Outcrops

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Transparency

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(in textiles) merging fore/background - deliberate

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Perceptual Confusion

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  • Hard to understand (lot of parts)
  • Distinguishes social class
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Vertical Archipelago

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Exchange of resources that allowed realities of one region to enter into the symbolic system of other regions

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Form

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Aspects that determine the configuration of an object/image (lines, shape, color, material)

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Style

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Distinguishing characteristics of an artifact

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Iconography

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Subject matter (vs form) identification of subject matter via broader pictorial tradition

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