Visionary Art and Shamanism in Ancient South America and Amerindian Radical Epistemology

April 21–May 4, 2012

Invited speakers

Rebecca R. Stone, Art History Professor, Emory University

Lectures by Rebecca R. Stone

  • The Visionary Aesthetic in Early Andean Art: Trance Experience as Subject Matter in the Chavin and Nasca Styles
  • The Visionary Aesthetic in Later Andean Art: Trance Experience as Subject Matter in the Moche and Chancay Styles
  • How Shamanic were the Inka?: the Evidence from Friar Bernabe Cobo’s Inka Religion and Customs

Lectures by Luis Eduardo Luna

  • Art and Shamanism in the Work of Colombian Archeologist and Anthropologist Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff: Shamanic Motives in Goldwork in the Andes and Visionary Paintings i the Amazon. An Overview
  • Amerindian Art: Indications of a Radical Epistemology, Learning by Transformation
  • Indigenous and Contemporary Art Inspired by Psychointegrator Plants