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Author : Elizabeth Kennedy Easby
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 0870990187
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (79 download)
Download or read book Before Cortés, Sculpture of Middle America written by Elizabeth Kennedy Easby and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 1970 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas P. F. Hoving
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (959 download)
Download or read book Before Cortés Sculpture of Middle America written by Thomas P. F. Hoving and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Roberta Payne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 12 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (243 download)
Download or read book Before Cortés written by Roberta Payne and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Susan Toby Evans
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136801863
Total Pages : 993 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (368 download)
Download or read book Archaeology of Ancient Mexico and Central America written by Susan Toby Evans and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2000-11-27 with total page 993 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first comprehensive, one-volume encyclopedia in English devoted to pre-Columbian archaeology of the Mesoamerican culture area. In more than 500 articles by the major experts in the field, this work brings the most recent scholarship to an examination of regional environments and their cultural evolution. Entries range from the familiar and world-renowned archaeological discoveries of Maya and Aztec sites to more recent excavations such as the Sayil archaeological zone in the Yucatan and Teopantecuanitlan in Guerrero. A rich historical and cultural resource on one of the world's six cradles of civilization, this reference is ideal for students, scholars, and prospective travellers.
Author : George Kubler
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300053258
Total Pages : 582 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (532 download)
Download or read book The Art and Architecture of Ancient America written by George Kubler and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a survey of the paintings and architecture of the Mexican, Mayan, and Andean peoples
Author : Mary Ellen Miller
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
ISBN 13 : 0500775036
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Art of Mesoamerica: From Olmec to Aztec (Sixth) (World of Art) written by Mary Ellen Miller and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 2019-06-11 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 0870990829
Total Pages : 65 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (79 download)
Download or read book Masterworks from the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation written by Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 1973 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catalog of an exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Oct. 18 to Dec. 31, 1973.
Author : Donatien Grau
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 1606067192
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Under Discussion written by Donatien Grau and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2021-04-13 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last two decades, the encyclopedic museum has been criticized and praised, constantly discussed, and often in the news. Encyclopedic museums are a phenomenon of Europe and the United States, and their locations and mostly Eurocentric collections have in more recent years drawn attention to what many see as bias. Debates on provenance in general, cultural origins, and restitutions of African heritage have exerted pressure on encyclopedic museums, and indeed on all matter of museums. Is there still a place for an institution dedicated to gathering, preserving, and showcasing all the world’s cultures? Donatien Grau’s conversations with international arts officials, museum leaders, artists, architects, and journalists go beyond the history of the encyclopedic format and the last decades’ issues that have burdened existing institutions. Are encyclopedic museums still relevant? What can they contribute when the Internet now seems to offer the greater encyclopedia? How important is it for us to have in-person access to objects from all over the world that can directly articulate something to us about humanity? The fresh ideas and nuances of new voices on the core principles important to museums in Dakar, Abu Dhabi, and Mumbai complement some of the world’s arts leaders from European and American institutions—resulting in some revealing and unexpected answers. Every interviewee offers differing views, making for exciting, stimulating reading. Includes interviews with George Abungu, National Museums of Kenya; Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York University; Homi K. Bhabha, Harvard University; Hamady Bocoum, Musée des Civilisations Noires, Dakar; Irina Bokova, UNESCO; Partha Chatterjee, Columbia University; Thomas Campbell, Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco; James Cuno, J. Paul Getty Trust; Bachir Souleymane Diagne, Columbia University; Kaywin Feldman, National Gallery of Art; Marc Fumaroli, Collège de France; Massimiliano Gioni, New Museum; Michael Govan, Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Camille Henrot, artist; Henri Loyrette, Musée du Louvre; Philippe de Montebello, New York University; Jean Nouvel, architect; Zaki Nusseibeh, United Arab Emirates; Mikhail Piotrovsky, State Hermitage Museum; Grayson Perry, artist; Krzysztof Pomian, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales; Mari Carmen Ramírez, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Fiammetta Rocco, The Economist; Max Hollein, Metropolitian Museum of Art; Sabyasachi Mukherjee, CSMVS Mumbai; Jean Nouvel, architect; Bénédicte Savoy; Collège de France; Kavita Singh, Jawarhlal Nehru University, New Delhi; Amit Sood, Google Arts & Culture.
Author : Lee Allen Parsons
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780936260242
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (62 download)
Download or read book The Face of Ancient America written by Lee Allen Parsons and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "For archaeologists, artists, art historians, and all lovers of art, expecially pre-Columbian art." -- Choice "... one of the better general pre-Columbian catalogues to appear in a long time." -- African Arts More than 150 examples of Olmec and Maya art are described in detail, discussed, and reproduced in magnificent full-color photographs. The collection is grouped into cultural and geographical sections to give a complete picture of the most significant civilizations of ancient Latin America.
Author : Isabel Kelly
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816505659
Total Pages : 121 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)
Download or read book Ceramic Sequence in Colima written by Isabel Kelly and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Kelly's identification of a nineteenth-century B. C. ceramic complex has far-reaching implications for the archaeology of western Mexico and its relationship with central Mexico and South America. . . . A well-illustrated monograph that covers much more than the title promises."—The Masterkey
Author : Thomas F. Reese
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 1606068326
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (6 download)
Download or read book George A. Kubler and the Shape of Art History written by Thomas F. Reese and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2023-04-04 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illuminating intellectual biography of a pioneering and singular figure in American art history. Art historian George A. Kubler (1912–1996) was a foundational scholar of ancient American art and archaeology as well as Spanish and Portuguese architecture. During over five decades at Yale University, he published seventeen books that included innovative monographs, major works of synthesis, and an influential theoretical treatise. In this biography, Thomas F. Reese analyzes the early formation, broad career, and writings of Kubler, casting nuanced light on the origins and development of his thinking. Notable in Reese’s discussion and contextualization of Kubler’s writings is a revealing history and analysis of his Shape of Time—a book so influential to students, scholars, artists, and curious readers in multiple disciplines that it has been continuously in print since 1962. Reese reveals how pivotal its ideas were in Kubler’s own thinking: rather than focusing on problems of form as an ordering principle, he increasingly came to sequence works by how they communicate meaning. The author demonstrates how Kubler, who professed to have little interest in theory, devoted himself to the craft of art history, discovering and charting the rules that guided the propagation of structure and significance through time
Author : Virginia Grady Smith
Publisher : Dumbarton Oaks
ISBN 13 : 9780884021193
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (211 download)
Download or read book Izapa Relief Carving written by Virginia Grady Smith and published by Dumbarton Oaks. This book was released on 1984 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study analyzes the visual traits of Izapa-style monuments to establish a stylistic inventory of visual elements and the rules for their use, and compares other Late Pre-Classic monuments of the Guatemala-Chiapas highlands and Pacific slopes.
Author : Ida Ely Rubin
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 0870992759
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (79 download)
Download or read book The Guennol Collection written by Ida Ely Rubin and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 1975 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Carolyn E. Tate
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292742568
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)
Download or read book Reconsidering Olmec Visual Culture written by Carolyn E. Tate and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2012-08-24 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recently, scholars of Olmec visual culture have identified symbols for umbilical cords, bundles, and cave-wombs, as well as a significant number of women portrayed on monuments and as figurines. In this groundbreaking study, Carolyn Tate demonstrates that these subjects were part of a major emphasis on gestational imagery in Formative Period Mesoamerica. In Reconsidering Olmec Visual Culture, she identifies the presence of women, human embryos, and fetuses in monuments and portable objects dating from 1400 to 400 BC and originating throughout much of Mesoamerica. This highly original study sheds new light on the prominent roles that women and gestational beings played in Early Formative societies, revealing female shamanic practices, the generative concepts that motivated caching and bundling, and the expression of feminine knowledge in the 260-day cycle and related divinatory and ritual activities. Reconsidering Olmec Visual Culture is the first study that situates the unique hollow babies of Formative Mesoamerica within the context of prominent females and the prevalent imagery of gestation and birth. It is also the first major art historical study of La Venta and the first to identify Mesoamerica's earliest creation narrative. It provides a more nuanced understanding of how later societies, including Teotihuacan and West Mexico, as well as the Maya, either rejected certain Formative Period visual forms, rituals, social roles, and concepts or adopted and transformed them into the enduring themes of Mesoamerican symbol systems.
Author : James A. Doyle
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 1588397076
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)
Download or read book Arte del mar written by James A. Doyle and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2020-02-03 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arte del Mar explores the diverse, interconnected history of the indigenous peoples of the Caribbean, where the sea was a vital source of cultural exchange. Before the arrival of Europeans, Caribbean societies formed a vast, multilingual network characterized by complex relationships among neighbors and distant contacts alike. Colonization and the subsequent forced mass migration of enslaved peoples from Africa later contributed to the heterogeneous culture of the region. Providing the first holistic look at Caribbean art, this Bulletin features masterworks from the early first millennium to the present, including works by celebrated Taíno artists from the Greater Antilles, as well as fascinating objects from lesser-known societies such as the Tairona from Colombia; the diverse kingdoms in Veraguas, Panama; and the communities in the Ulúa Valley, Honduras. A brief exploration of more contemporary artistic practice yields further insight into this unique ancestral legacy. Whether ancient or modern, the artworks presented here share a formal grammar linking politics, mythology, and ritual performance, revealing a distinctly Caribbean approach to creativity.
Author : Karl A. Taube
Publisher : Dumbarton Oaks
ISBN 13 : 9780884022756
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (227 download)
Download or read book Olmec Art at Dumbarton Oaks written by Karl A. Taube and published by Dumbarton Oaks. This book was released on 2004 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Olmec Art at Dumbarton Oaks presents the Olmec portion of the Robert Woods Bliss Collection of Pre-Columbian Art. It illustrates all thirty-nine Olmec art objects in color plates and includes many complementary and comparative black-and-white illustrations and drawings. The body of Pre-Columbian art that Robert Bliss carefully assembled over a half-century between 1912 and 1963, amplified only slightly since his death, is a remarkably significant collection. In addition to their aesthetic quality and artistic significance, the objects hold much information regarding the social worlds and religious and symbolic views of the people who made and used them before the arrival of Europeans in the New World. This volume is the second in a series of catalogues that will treat objects in the Bliss Pre-Columbian Collection. The majority of the Olmec objects in the collection are made of jade, the most precious material for the peoples of ancient Mesoamerica from early times through the sixteenth century. Various items such as masks, statuettes, jewelry, and replicas of weapons and tools were used for ceremonial purposes and served as offerings. Karl Taube brings his expertise on the lifeways and beliefs of ancient Mesoamerican peoples to his study of the Olmec objects in teh Bliss collection. His understanding of jade covers a broad range of knowledge from chemical compositions to geological sources to craft technology to the symbolic power of the green stone. Throughout the book the author emphasizes the role of jade as a powerful symbol of water, fertility, and particularly, of the maize plant which was the fundamental source of life and sustenance for the Olmec. The shiny green of the stone was analogous to the green growth of maize. This fundamental concept was elaborated in specific religious beliefs, many of which were continued and elaborated by later Mesoamerican peoples, such as the Maya. Karl Taube employs his substantial knowledge of Pre-Columbian cultures to explore and explicate Olmec symbolism in this catalogue.
Author : Edwin M. Shook
Publisher : American Philosophical Society
ISBN 13 : 9780871692177
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (921 download)
Download or read book Secrets in Stone written by Edwin M. Shook and published by American Philosophical Society. This book was released on 1996 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yokes, hachas, and palmas are three pre-Columbian art forms that occur in a specific region of Mexico and Central America and apparently have no exact counterparts anywhere else. This volume focuses on these carved stone objects which have puzzled art historians and archaeologists since the mid-19th century. The corpus of data presented here, consisting of photo documentation, identification, and interpretation of 661 sculptures, was assembled by the two authors over many years, beginning in the early 1940s. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
