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Author : Karl Herbert Mayer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Classic Maya Relief Columns written by Karl Herbert Mayer and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Merle Greene
Publisher : Museum of Primitive Art & Culture
ISBN 13 : 9780300085556
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (855 download)
Download or read book Ancient Maya Relief Sculpture written by Merle Greene and published by Museum of Primitive Art & Culture. This book was released on 1967-09-10 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A selection of rubbings taken by Merle Greene from outstanding Maya monuments, primarily of the classic period.
Author : Michael D. Coe
Publisher : Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Three Maya Relief Panels at Dumbarton Oaks written by Michael D. Coe and published by Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection. This book was released on 1966 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stephen D. Houston
Publisher : Dumbarton Oaks
ISBN 13 : 9780884022541
Total Pages : 588 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (225 download)
Download or read book Function and Meaning in Classic Maya Architecture written by Stephen D. Houston and published by Dumbarton Oaks. This book was released on 1998 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These articles mark a significant stage in the study of Maya architecture and the society that built it. They represent advances in our understandings of the past, point toward avenues for further studies, and note the distance yet to travel in fully appreciating and understanding this ancient American culture and its material remains.
Author : Merle Greene Robertson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (67 download)
Download or read book Ancient Maya Relief Sculpture: Rubbings written by Merle Greene Robertson and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Flora S. Clancy
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Sculpture in the Ancient Maya Plaza written by Flora S. Clancy and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The free-standing monuments which adorned the Early Classic plazas of the ancient Mayan cities were carved with exquisite relief sculpture. It is the latter which forms the main concern of this book. Drawing on detailed examination of the art pieces themselves, Clancy discusses their composition, carving techniques, imagery, text and attempts to reconstruct the decision-making process associated with their design, creation and unveiling. With many illustrations.
Author : Matthew G. Looper
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 029277818X
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)
Download or read book To Be Like Gods written by Matthew G. Looper and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, Association for Latin American Art Book Award, 2010 The Maya of Mexico and Central America have performed ritual dances for more than two millennia. Dance is still an essential component of religious experience today, serving as a medium for communication with the supernatural. During the Late Classic period (AD 600-900), dance assumed additional importance in Maya royal courts through an association with feasting and gift exchange. These performances allowed rulers to forge political alliances and demonstrate their control of trade in luxury goods. The aesthetic values embodied in these performances were closely tied to Maya social structure, expressing notions of gender, rank, and status. Dance was thus not simply entertainment, but was fundamental to ancient Maya notions of social, religious, and political identity. Using an innovative interdisciplinary approach, Matthew Looper examines several types of data relevant to ancient Maya dance, including hieroglyphic texts, pictorial images in diverse media, and architecture. A series of case studies illustrates the application of various analytical methodologies and offers interpretations of the form, meaning, and social significance of dance performance. Although the nuances of movement in Maya dances are impossible to recover, Looper demonstrates that a wealth of other data survives which allows a detailed consideration of many aspects of performance. To Be Like Gods thus provides the first comprehensive interpretation of the role of dance in ancient Maya society and also serves as a model for comparative research in the archaeology of performance.
Author : Merle Greene
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (491 download)
Download or read book Ancient Maya Relief Sculpture. Rubbings by Merle Greene. Introd. and Notes by J. Eric S. Thompson written by Merle Greene and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Merle Greene Robertson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (67 download)
Download or read book Ancient Maya Relief Sculpture: Rubbings by Merle Greene written by Merle Greene Robertson and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Karen Bassie-Sweet
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
ISBN 13 : 1607327422
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (73 download)
Download or read book Maya Narrative Arts written by Karen Bassie-Sweet and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Maya Narrative Arts, authors Karen Bassie-Sweet and Nicholas A. Hopkins present a comprehensive and innovative analysis of the principles of Classic Maya narrative arts and apply those principles to some of the major monuments of the site of Palenque. They demonstrate a recent methodological shift in the examination of art and inscriptions away from minute technical issues and toward the poetics and narratives of texts and the relationship between texts and images. Bassie-Sweet and Hopkins show that both visual and verbal media present carefully planned narratives, and that the two are intimately related in the composition of Classic Maya monuments. Text and image interaction is discussed through examples of stelae, wall panels, lintels, benches, and miscellaneous artifacts including ceramic vessels and codices. Bassie-Sweet and Hopkins consider the principles of contrast and complementarity that underlie narrative structures and place this study in the context of earlier work, proposing a new paradigm for Maya epigraphy. They also address the narrative organization of texts and images as manifested in selected hieroglyphic inscriptions and the accompanying illustrations, stressing the interplay between the two. Arguing for a more holistic approach to Classic Maya art and literature, Maya Narrative Arts reveals how close observation and reading can be equally if not more productive than theoretical discussions, which too often stray from the very data that they attempt to elucidate. The book will be significant for Mesoamerican art historians, epigraphers, linguists, and archaeologists.
Author : Elizabeth A. Newsome
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292788029
Total Pages : 533 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)
Download or read book Trees of Paradise and Pillars of the World written by Elizabeth A. Newsome and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-07-05 with total page 533 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Assemblies of rectangular stone pillars, or stelae, fill the plazas and courts of ancient Maya cities throughout the lowlands of southern Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, and western Honduras. Mute testimony to state rituals that linked the king's power to rule with the rhythms and renewal of time, the stelae document the ritual acts of rulers who sacrificed, danced, and experienced visionary ecstasy in connection with celebrations marking the end of major calendrical cycles. The kings' portraits are carved in relief on the main surfaces of the stones, deifying them as incarnations of the mythical trees of life. Based on a thorough analysis of the imagery and inscriptions of seven stelae erected in the Great Plaza at Copan, Honduras, by the Classic Period ruler "18-Rabbit-God K," this ambitious study argues that stelae were erected not only to support a ruler's temporal claims to power but more importantly to express the fundamental connection in Maya worldview between rulership and the cosmology inherent in their vision of cyclical time. After an overview of the archaeology and history of Copan and the reign and monuments of "18-Rabbit-God K," Elizabeth Newsome interprets the iconography and inscriptions on the stelae, illustrating the way they fulfilled a coordinated vision of the king's ceremonial role in Copan's period-ending rites. She also links their imagery to key Maya concepts about the origin of the universe, expressed in the cosmologies and mythic lore of ancient and living Maya peoples.
Author : Elizabeth P. Benson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691264945
Total Pages : 485 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)
Download or read book Maya Iconography written by Elizabeth P. Benson and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2024-01-09 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A landmark work on the iconography of one of the world’s great civilizations This book presents foundational work on Maya iconography from leading practitioners in fields ranging from archaeology, anthropology, and art history to linguistics, astronomy, photography, and medicine. The period discussed runs from the last centuries B.C. through the great Maya Classic period, with some discussion of later eras and of regions outside the Maya area. Featuring an incisive introduction by Elizabeth Benson and Gillett Griffin, Maya Iconography demonstrates how Maya beliefs developed over time and makes important connections between Preclassic and Classic iconography. The contributors are John Carlson, Michael Coe, David Freidel, Donald Hales, Norman Hammond, Nicholas Hellmuth, John Justeson, Barbara Kerr, Justin Kerr, Mary Ellen Miller, William Norman, Lee Parsons, Francis Robicsek, Linda Schele, David Stuart, and Karl Taube.
Author : Karl Herbert Mayer
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Maya Monuments written by Karl Herbert Mayer and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stephan Merk
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3739228636
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (392 download)
Download or read book The Long Silence written by Stephan Merk and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2016-01-12 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Long Silence is a short series about architectural surveys in the Maya Puuc region. Two volumes are available: The Long Silence and The Long Silence (2). In The Long Silence Stephan Merk describes the outcome of his Chunhuaymil project, an architectural survey of standing Maya Puuc ruins in a mostly untouched 100 square kilometer sector in Northeastern Campeche, México. Nineteen ancient settlements were recorded, many of them for the first time. Their remaining architecture is presented here together with important hieroglyphic inscriptions from the sites. With additional contributions by Antonio Benavides Castillo, Daniel Graña-Behrens, Nikolai Grube, Carlos Pallan Gayol, and Julie Patrois.
Author : T. Patrick Culbert
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521564458
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (644 download)
Download or read book Classic Maya Political History written by T. Patrick Culbert and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-03-29 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is concerned with the historical reality recorded on Classic Maya monuments of the first millennium AD, its interpretation in terms of social and political interaction within and between states, and the better understanding of Maya civilization that is emerging from a more accurate perception of the role of its ruling elites.
Author : C. Bruce Hunter
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806119922
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (199 download)
Download or read book A Guide to Ancient Maya Ruins written by C. Bruce Hunter and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1986-05-01 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrated descriptions, explanations, and appraisals of accessible Mayan ceremonial centers in Guatemala, Mexico, and Honduras, setting each of the twenty-four sites in its historical, cultural, and architectural context
Author : Stephan Merk
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3739226277
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (392 download)
Download or read book The Long Silence (2) written by Stephan Merk and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Long Silence, first published 2011, Stephan Merk described the standing Maya Puuc architecture of a 100 square kilometer wide area in Northern Campeche, México. The Long Silence (2) presents the results of the architectural survey of an equally large and almost untouched region immediately south, and compares the results of both projects. With additional contributions by Nicholas Dunning and Eric Weaver, Daniel Graña-Behrens, Guido Krempel, and Karl Herbert Mayer.
