Playing with Things: Engaging the Moche Sex Pots

by Mary Weismantel

Winner, Association for Latin American Art-Arvey Foundation Book Award, 2022

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1477323201
• ISBN13: 9781477323205
• Release Date: August 2021
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"