The Art Of Mesoamerica
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The Art Of Mesoamerica
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Author : Mary Ellen Miller
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
The Art Of Mesoamerica written by Mary Ellen Miller and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Architecture categories.
This edition includes new discoveries from Palenque, Mexico, where architecture and sculpture reveal a dramatic eighth century to San Bartolo, Guatemala, where Maya murals of this unprecedented complexity have been uncovered.
Art Of Mesoamerica From Olmec To Aztec Sixth World Of Art
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Author : Mary Ellen Miller
language : en
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Release Date : 2019-06-11
Art Of Mesoamerica From Olmec To Aztec Sixth World Of Art written by Mary Ellen Miller and has been published by Thames & Hudson this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-11 with Art categories.
Mary Ellen Miller’s rich visual and scholarly survey of pre-Hispanic art and architecture, including the most recent archaeological finds. Expanded and revised in its sixth edition, The Art of Mesoamerica surveys the artistic achievements of the high pre-Hispanic civilizations of Central America—Olmec, Maya, Teotihuacan, Toltec, and Aztec—as well as those of their lesser-known contemporaries. Providing an in-depth examination of central works, this book guides readers through the most iconic palaces, pyramids, sculptures, and paintings. From the Olmec colossal head 5 recovered from San Lorenzo to the Aztec calendar stone found in Mexico City’s Zocalo in 1790, this book reveals the complexity and innovation behind the art and architecture produced in pre-Hispanic civilizations. This new edition incorporates fifty new lavish color images and extensive updates based on the latest research and dozens of recent discoveries, particularly in Maya art, where excavations at Teotihuacan, the largest city of Mesoamerica, and Tenochtitlan, the capital of the Aztecs, have yielded new sculptures.
Blood And Beauty
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Author : Rex Koontz
language : en
Publisher: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
Release Date : 2009-12-31
Blood And Beauty written by Rex Koontz and has been published by Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-12-31 with History categories.
Warfare, ritual human sacrifice, and the rubber ballgame have been the traditional categories through which scholars have examined organized violence in the artistic and material records of ancient Mesoamerica and Central America. This volume expands those traditional categories to include such concerns as gladiatorial-like boxing combats, investiture rites, trophy-head taking and display, dark shamanism, and the subjective pain inherent in acts of violence. Each author examines organized violence as a set of practices grounded in cultural understandings, even when the violence threatens the limits of those understandings. The authors scrutinize the representation of, and relationships between, different types of organized violence, as well as the implications of those activities, which can include the unexpected, such as violence as a means of determining and curing illness, and the use of violence in negotiation strategies.
The Art Of Urbanism
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Author : William Leonard Fash
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2009
The Art Of Urbanism written by William Leonard Fash and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Architecture categories.
The Art of Urbanism explores how the royal courts of powerful Mesoamerican centers represented their kingdoms in architectural, iconographic, and cosmological terms. Through an investigation of the ecological contexts and environmental opportunities of urban centers, the contributors consider how ancient Mesoamerican cities defined themselves and reflected upon their physicalâe"and metaphysicalâe"place via their built environment. Themes in the volume include the ways in which a kingdomâe(tm)s public monuments were fashioned to reflect geographic space, patron gods, and mythology, and how the Olmec, Maya, Mexica, Zapotecs, and others sought to center their world through architectural monuments and public art. This collection of papers addresses how communities leveraged their environment and built upon their cultural and historical roots as well as the ways that the performance of calendrical rituals and other public events tied individuals and communities to both urban centers and hinterlands. Twenty-three scholars from archaeology, anthropology, art history, and religious studies contribute new data and new perspectives to the understanding of ancient Mesoamericansâe(tm) own view of their spectacular urban and ritual centers.
The Art Of Mesoamerica
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Author : Mary Ellen Miller
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
The Art Of Mesoamerica written by Mary Ellen Miller and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Indian architecture categories.
Unseen Art
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Author : Claudia Brittenham
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2023-01-17
Unseen Art written by Claudia Brittenham and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-01-17 with Art categories.
In Unseen Art, Claudia Brittenham unravels one of the most puzzling phenomena in Mesoamerican art history: why many of the objects that we view in museums today were once so difficult to see. She examines the importance that ancient Mesoamerican people assigned to the process of making and enlivening the things we now call art, as well as Mesoamerican understandings of sight as an especially godlike and elite power, in order to trace a gradual evolution in the uses of secrecy and concealment, from a communal practice that fostered social memory to a tool of imperial power. Addressing some of the most charismatic of all Mesoamerican sculptures, such as Olmec buried offerings, Maya lintels, and carvings on the undersides of Aztec sculptures, Brittenham shows that the creation of unseen art has important implications both for understanding status in ancient Mesoamerica and for analyzing art in the present. Spanning nearly three thousand years of the Indigenous art of Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, and Belize, Unseen Art connects the dots between vision, power, and inequality, providing a critical perspective on our own way of looking.
The Art And Architecture Of The Aztec And Maya
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Author : Charles Phillips
language : en
Publisher: Southwater Publishing
Release Date : 2008-01-31
The Art And Architecture Of The Aztec And Maya written by Charles Phillips and has been published by Southwater Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-01-31 with Aztec architecture categories.
"Explore the architecture of ancient Mexico and Central America, and discover the fabulous arts and crafts, sculptures, metalwork and textiles of these great pre-industrial civilizations"--Cover.
Pre Columbian Art
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Author : Hildegard Delgado Pang
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992-01-01
Pre Columbian Art written by Hildegard Delgado Pang and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992-01-01 with Art categories.
This profusely illustrated, up-to-date introduction to the pre-columbian art of Mesoamerica and Andean South America examines our conceptions of the ancient high cultures, the art they produced, and how our modern-day interpretations were achieved. The book is unique in that it draws on a great variety of scholarly disciplines to interpret the art forms. Since the 1960s our understanding of the Aztec, Maya, Inca, and Andean civilizations has increased dramatically through coordinated interdisciplinary research. In this summary of new and past investigations, Hilda Delgado Pang describes previously unknown historical figures and dynasties. In a clear and entertaining style, she tells how the pre-columbian artists validated their rulers, recorded rituals, portrayed the supernatural and astronomical cosmos, and commemorated transitions from life into death. As she describes the Mesoamerican and Andean high cultures, she also explains the special role that art plays in all societies, ancient and modern. Pre-columbian artists expressed themselves in sculpture and monumental architecture, glyphic notations, weavings, and painted ceramics--beginning about 2000 B.C. and, in some areas, continuing after the Spanish conquest. This new introductory text explores the contributions of epigraphy, formal and iconographic analyses, chemical and botanical identifications, and ethnographic and ethnohistorical sources to our knowledge of the major art styles: Olmec, Toltec, Maya, Aztec, Chavin, Paracas, Nasca, Moche, Tiahuanaco-Huari, Chimu, and Inca. From this book students and general readers will gain challenging insights into both the ancient art forms described and the fast-moving disciplines thatenergize research in the field today.
The Market For Mesoamerica
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Author : Cara G. Tremain
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Release Date : 2019-07-15
The Market For Mesoamerica written by Cara G. Tremain and has been published by University Press of Florida this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-15 with Social Science categories.
Pre-Columbian artifacts are among the most popular items on the international antiquities market, yet it is becoming increasingly difficult to monitor these items as public, private, and digital sales proliferate. This timely volume explores past, current, and future policies and trends concerning the sales and illicit movement of artifacts from Mesoamerica to museums and private collections. Informed by the fields of anthropology, economics, law, and criminology, contributors critically analyze practices of research and collecting in Central American countries. They assess the circulation of looted and forged artifacts on the art market and in museums and examine government and institutional policies aimed at fighting trafficking. They also ask if and how scholars can use materials removed from their context to interpret the past. The theft of cultural heritage items from their places of origin is a topic of intense contemporary discussion, and The Market for Mesoamerica updates our knowledge of this issue by presenting undocumented and illicit antiquities within a regional and global context. Through discussion of transparency, accountability, and ethical practice, this volume ultimately considers how antiquities can be protected and studied through effective policy and professional practice. A volume in the series Maya Studies, edited by Diane Z. Chase and Arlen F. Chase
The Art Of Pre Hispanic Mesoamerica
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Author : Janet Catherine Berlo
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA
Release Date : 1985
The Art Of Pre Hispanic Mesoamerica written by Janet Catherine Berlo and has been published by Macmillan Reference USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with Art categories.