Description: Adding an important new chapter to pre-Columbian art history, this volume is the first to assemble and analyze a comprehensive body of ancient Andean architectural representations, as well as the first that explores their connections to full-scale pre-Hispanic ritual architecture.
Brief description: Julie B. Wiersema is Assistant Professor of Pre-Hispanic and Spanish Colonial Art the University of Texas at San Antonio. She has also taught at Santa Clara University and the University of Maryland. Wiersema served as Assistant Curator of the Art of the Americas at the Brooklyn Museum of Art; conducted World War II provenance research for the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; developed content for the Visionary Art Museums’ Off the Map, an interactive guide to global visionary art; and has undertaken radiography and acoustical studies of ceramic whistling vessels with conservators and ethnomusicologists at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of the American Indian and the Museo Nacional de Antropología, Arquelogía, e Historia del Peru. She has been awarded research fellowships through U.S. Fulbright, the Smithsonian Institution, the Library of Congress, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.