This wide-ranging survey has established itself as the best singlevolume
introduction to Andean art and architecture, and is an essential guide
to pre-Columbian Peru, Ecuador, and Bolivia for the general reader,
student, traveler, and artist alike. Describing the strikingly varied
artistic achievements of the Chavín, Paracas, Moche, Nasca, Chimu, and
Inca cultures, among others, Rebecca Stone has rewritten and expanded
the text throughout, touching on many of the recent discoveries and
advances in the field. Throughout this fully revised third edition,
Stone demonstrates how the Andean peoples adapted and refined their
aesthetic response to a formidable and demanding environment and
explored the interface between the terrestrial and the otherworldly
according to the value they placed on shamanic religious experience.