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PAINTED REFLECTIONS Isomeric Design in Ancestral Pueblo Pottery
By Scott G. Ortman and Joseph Traugott

New copy, hardback with slipcover, first edition, 2018. Autographed by both authors, 140 pages illustrated with color photographs of pottery and vintage photographs.

"For the past two millennia the American Southwest has been home to Pueblo peoples, whose culture is one of the most vibrant and compelling ever to have graced the earth. The vitality, distinctiveness, and resilience of Pueblo culture is apparent in its traditional pottery with intricate painted designs. These designs, based on simple geometric forms, made ancestral Pueblo pottery distinctive and easy to recognize. In this book, Scott G. Ortman and Joseph Traugott contemplate a hidden source of the pottery's appeal: a phenomenon they call isomeric design."

Chapters

1. Perceiving Isomeric Design
2. Isomeric Design Strategies
3. Relationships between Spiral and Stepped Elements
4. Isomeric Designs and Weaving
5. Isomeric Designs and Pueblo Philosophy
6. Isomers, Art, and Society