Women Artists of the Ancient Southwest by Billy (author) Schenck, Book, copyright 2024

Women Artists of the Ancient Southwest is the most comprehensive book ever written on the ceramic artists (all of them women) of the Prehistoric Southwest. Schenck examines the greatest of the individual artists of the Anasazi, Mogollon and Hohokam cultures. Schenck looks at the impact these artists had on their own and adjacent cultures, cross cultural inspiration, appropriation and the competitiveness to reach ever greater heights in their individual works of art. At times an individual artist can be identified as having made from two to twenty ceramic objects based on their unique vision. This book is 448 pages with a total of 778 ceramic images. Schenck often compares these artists toth e artists of Western civilization from 1500 to the present.

Author: Billy Schenck
Copyright: 2024
Format: Softcover
Illustrations: Extensive full-color photography throughout
Subject: Native American Art, Southwestern Archaeology, Indigenous Women's History, Ancient Pueblo Art