Playing with Things: Engaging the Moche Sex Pots

by Mary Weismantel

More than a thousand years ago on the north coast of Peru, Indigenous Moche artists created a large and significant corpus of sexually explicit ceramic works of art. They depicted a diversity of sex organs and sex acts, and an array of solitary and interconnected human and nonhuman bodies. To the modern eye, these Moche "sex pots," as Mary Weismantel calls them, are lively and provocative but also enigmatic creations whose import to their original...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 147732321X
• ISBN13: 9781477323212
• Release Date: August 2021
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"