A sourcebook of nasca ceramic iconography reading a culture through its art he ends with a thorough and accessible examination of this ancient culture viewed through the lens of ceramic iconography although these static images can never be fully understood by animating their themes and meanings proulx reconstructs the lifeways of this . Download citation a sourcebook of nasca ceramic iconography reading a culture through its art for almost eight hundred years 100 bca ad 650 nasca artists modeled and painted the plants . For almost eight hundred years 100 bc ad 650 nasca artists modeled and painted the plants animals birds and fish of their homeland on perus south coast as well as numerous abstract anthropomorphic creatures whose form and meaning are sometimes incomprehensible today in this first book length treatment of nasca ceramic iconography to appear in english drawing upon an archive of more . For almost eight hundred years 100 bc ad 650 nasca artists modeled and painted the plants animals birds and fish of their homeland on perus south coast as well as numerous abstract anthropomorphic creatures whose form and meaning are sometimes incomprehensible today in this first book length treatment of nasca ceramic iconography to appear in english drawing upon an archive of more . Title a sourcebook of nasca ceramic iconography reading a culture through its art published by original publisher iowa city iowa university of iowa press 2006 xii 236 p 15 p of plates ill maps by line authors name as appearing in the actual publication donald a proulx