Image Encounters

Lisa Trever is the Lisa and Bernard Selz Associate Professor in Pre-Columbian Art and Archaeology at Columbia University. She is the author of The Archaeology of Mural Painting at Pañamarca, Peru and coeditor of El arte antes de la historia: Para una historia del arte andino antiguo.

• Preface Introduction: Image Encounters Chapter 1. Mural Origins and Coastal Corporealities Chapter 2. Formulating Traditions: Ancestral Divinities, NorcosteÑo Design, and the Aesthetics of Replication in Moche Mural Art (200–650 CE) Chapter 3. Siting Narratives: Moche Mural Painting and the Condensation of a Medium (650–850 CE) Chapter 4. Archaeo-Iconology: An Archaeology of Image Experience and Response Conclusions. On the Huaca Notes Bibliography Index

[Image Encounters] offers a vibrant and compelling study of Andean mural painting, especially for the Moche (or Mochica) culture. It revels in the complexity that the subject demands...as a highly original study of the medium in Moche culture, not to mention its innovative theoretical apparatus to consider the logic, understandings, and experience of Andean mural painting more broadly, Trever’s volume is absolutely essential and there is much to recommend...Image Encounters affords a breath-taking tour of this least studied of Andean monumental arts, and extends guidance to consider Moche imagery, image-making, and society anew. Demanding, eclectic, and thoughtful throughout. (21: Inquiries into Art, History, and the Visual) Image Encounters is an exceedingly thoughtful and carefully crafted book . . .  It will not only serve as the defining study of Moche murals for years to come but also substantially reframe scholarly understandings of the origins of wall art-and perhaps even art generally-in the ancient Andes. (Latin American and Latinx Visual Art) Trever emphasizes that which survives: what Moche artisans created and the visual and somatic effects of their sculpture, painting, and architecture. These convictions set Trever’s work apart from a significant swath of scholarship on the Moche; they also introduce an experimental air to her book, for art historians too rarely write about ancient cultures by so fully cordoning off alphabetic writing that dates from the colonial (and even modern) period. Image Encounters reshapes prevailing understandings of Moche culture on many registers. (Early American Literature)