书名：The Royal Inca Tunic: A Biography of an Andean Masterpiece / 皇家印加束腰外衣：安第斯杰作的传记
定价：398.0
ISBN：9780691256955
作者：Andrew James Hamilton
版次：1
出版时间：2024-05

内容提要：

题 目：The Royal Inca Tunic: A Biography of an Andean Masterpiece / 皇家印加束腰外衣：安第斯杰作的传记

作 者：Andrew James Hamilton

出 版：Princeton University Press ，2021

装 帧：精装，344页

尺 寸：21.5*27.9 cm

 

 

隐匿于世的印加艺术最伟大的幸存之作

 

世界上最著名的安第斯艺术品是一件有着五百年历史的印加束腰外衣，其复杂设计的含义引发了诸多猜测而声名大噪，其中包括将其解读为一种早已失传的书写系统的尝试。然而，关于它的真实情况，人们知之甚少。《皇家印加束腰外衣》一书重构了这件神秘物品的历史，并呈现了关于其制作工艺和在印加视觉文化中的象征意义的重大新发现。

 

安德鲁·詹姆斯·汉密尔顿基于十多年来对这件衣物的细致实物检查、对殖民时期秘鲁手稿的广泛研究，以及对束腰外衣来源的开创性研究，有条不紊地构建了这样一个论点：这件纺织品是由两位属于印加帝国最高阶层艺术家行列的女性，在1532年西班牙入侵前夕，为印加帝国的最后一位皇帝编织的。汉密尔顿首次揭示，这件皇室服饰其实并未完成，且经历了严重的染料褪色，从而改变了其现今的外观，他还提出了一种大胆的新构想，描绘了这件曾经光彩夺目的杰作最初的模样。

 

《皇家印加束腰外衣》一书展示了这件束腰外衣的惊艳照片以及汉密尔顿本人绘制的精美插图，证明了这件作品为何在艺术史经典中占有重要地位：它是土著女性艺术家灵巧创作的结晶，是对殖民主义暴行的提醒，也是当代安第斯身份的象征。

 

The hidden life of the greatest surviving work of Inca art

 

The most celebrated Andean artwork in the world is a five-hundred-year-old Inca tunic made famous through theories about the meanings of its intricate designs, including attempts to read them as a long-lost writing system. But very little is really known about it. The Royal Inca Tunic reconstructs the history of this enigmatic object, presenting significant new findings about its manufacture and symbolism in Inca visual culture.

 

Andrew James Hamilton draws on meticulous physical examinations of the garment conducted over a decade, wide-ranging studies of colonial Peruvian manuscripts, and groundbreaking research into the tunic’s provenance. He methodically builds a case for the textile having been woven by two women who belonged to the very highest echelon of Inca artists for the last emperor of the Inca Empire on the eve of the Spanish invasion in 1532. Hamilton reveals for the first time that this imperial vestment remains unfinished and has suffered massive dye fading that transforms its appearance today, and he proposes a bold new conception of what this radiant masterpiece originally looked like.

 

Featuring stunning photography of the tunic and Hamilton’s own beautiful illustrations, The Royal Inca Tunic demonstrates why this object holds an important place in the canon of art history as a deft creation by Indigenous women artists, a reminder of the horrors of colonialism, and an emblem of contemporary Andean identity.