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Author : Elizabeth Wilder Weismann
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780674431836
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Mexico in Sculpture, 1521-1821 written by Elizabeth Wilder Weismann and published by . This book was released on 2014-04-13 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Donna Pierce
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0914738496
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (147 download)
Download or read book Painting a New World written by Donna Pierce and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2004-05-01 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The little-known story of viceregal Mexico is told by an international team of scholars whose work was previously available only piecemeal or not at all in English. Much of their research was undertaken especially for this volume."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Kelly Donahue-Wallace
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 0826334598
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (263 download)
Download or read book Art and Architecture of Viceregal Latin America, 1521-1821 written by Kelly Donahue-Wallace and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A chronological overview of important art, sculpture, and architectural monuments of colonial Latin America within the economic and religious contexts of the era.
Author : Robert J. Mullen
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292788053
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)
Download or read book Architecture and Its Sculpture in Viceregal Mexico written by Robert J. Mullen and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-07-05 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From monumental cathedrals to simple parish churches, perhaps as many as 100,000 churches and civic buildings were constructed in Mexico during the viceregal or colonial period (1535-1821). Many of these structures remain today as witnesses to the fruitful blending of Old and New World forms and styles that created an architecture of enduring vitality. In this profusely illustrated book, Robert J. Mullen provides a much-needed overview of Mexican colonial architecture and its attendant sculpture. Writing with just the right level of detail for students and general readers, he places the architecture in its social and economic context. He shows how buildings in the larger cities remained closer to European designs, while buildings in the pueblos often included prehispanic indigenous elements. This book grew out of the author's twenty-five-year exploration of Mexico's architectural and sculptural heritage. Combining an enthusiast's love for the subject with a scholar's care for accuracy, it is the perfect introduction to the full range of Mexico's colonial architecture.
Author : Logan Wagner
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 029274983X
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)
Download or read book Ancient Origins of the Mexican Plaza written by Logan Wagner and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2013-04-04 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The plaza has been a defining feature of Mexican urban architecture and culture for at least 4,000 years. Ancient Mesoamericans conducted most of their communal life in outdoor public spaces, and today the plaza is still the public living room in every Mexican neighborhood, town, and city—the place where friends meet, news is shared, and personal and communal rituals and celebrations happen. The site of a community’s most important architecture—church, government buildings, and marketplace—the plaza is both sacred and secular space and thus the very heart of the community. This extensively illustrated book traces the evolution of the Mexican plaza from Mesoamerican sacred space to modern public gathering place. The authors led teams of volunteers who measured and documented nearly one hundred traditional Mexican town centers. The resulting plans reveal the layers of Mesoamerican and European history that underlie the contemporary plaza. The authors describe how Mesoamericans designed their ceremonial centers as embodiments of creation myths—the plaza as the primordial sea from which the earth emerged. They discuss how Europeans, even though they sought to eradicate native culture, actually preserved it as they overlaid the Mesoamerican sacred plaza with the Renaissance urban concept of an orthogonal grid with a central open space. The authors also show how the plaza’s historic, architectural, social, and economic qualities can contribute to mainstream urban design and architecture today.
Author : Lynn V. Foster
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0816074054
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (16 download)
Download or read book A Brief History of Mexico written by Lynn V. Foster and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praise for the previous editions: ..".well researched...concise...interesting..."--American Reference Books Annual
Author : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 0870995952
Total Pages : 730 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (79 download)
Download or read book Mexico written by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 1990 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Precolumbian art -- Viceregal art -- Nineteenth century art -- Twentieth century art.
Author : Justino Fernández
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226244211
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (442 download)
Download or read book A Guide to Mexican Art written by Justino Fernández and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1969-08-15 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Guide to Mexican Art, a survey of more than twenty centuries of art, has a double purpose. It provides an ample version of one of the great national arts by a leading art historian, and it serves simultaneously as a practical guide to the art's outstanding masterpieces. The Guide will thus be of value to specialists and students of Latin American art and to sightseers as an introduction and guide to the art and architecture of Mexico. To facilitate its use for the latter purpose, Professor Fernández has based his exposition on the sensitive analysis of works to be found almost exclusive in museums and public buildings accessible to the tourist. The book was originally published in Spanish in 1958 and revised in 1961. This English translation, from the second edition has been brought up to date by the author and translator.
Author : Jennifer Scheper Hughes
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199710392
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)
Download or read book Biography of a Mexican Crucifix written by Jennifer Scheper Hughes and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-01-27 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1543, in a small village in Mexico, a group of missionary friars received from a mysterious Indian messenger an unusual carved image of Christ crucified. The friars declared it the most poignantly beautiful depiction of Christ's suffering they had ever seen. Known as the Cristo Aparecido (the "Christ Appeared"), it quickly became one of the most celebrated religious images in colonial Mexico. Today, the Cristo Aparecido is among the oldest New World crucifixes and is the beloved patron saint of the Indians of Totolapan. In Biography of a Mexican Crucifix, Jennifer Scheper Hughes traces popular devotion to the Cristo Aparecido over five centuries of Mexican history. Each chapter investigates a single incident in the encounter between believers and the image. Through these historical vignettes, Hughes explores and reinterprets the conquest of and mission to the Indians; the birth of an indigenous, syncretic Christianity; the violent processes of independence and nationalization; and the utopian vision of liberation theology. Hughes reads all of these through the popular devotion to a crucifix that over the centuries becomes a key protagonist in shaping local history and social identity. This book will be welcomed by scholars and students of religion, Latin American history, anthropology, and theology.
Author : Luke Syson
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 1588396444
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)
Download or read book Like Life written by Luke Syson and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2018-03-19 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since before the myth of Pygmalion bringing a statue to life through desire, artists have used sculpture to explore the physical materiality of the body. This groundbreaking volume examines key sculptural works from thirteenth-century Europe to the global present, revealing new insights into the strategies artists deploy to blur the distinction between art and life. Three-dimensional renderings of the human figure are presented here in numerous manifestations, created by artists ranging from Donatello and Edgar Degas to Kiki Smith and Jeff Koons. Featuring works created in media both traditional and unexpected—such as glass, leather, and blood—Like Life presents sculpture by turns conventional and shocking, including effigies, dolls, mannequins, automata, waxworks, and anatomical models. Texts by curators and cultural historians as well as contemporary artists complete this provocative exploration of realistic representations of the human body. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Verdana}
Author : William H. Beezley
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1444340581
Total Pages : 701 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (443 download)
Download or read book A Companion to Mexican History and Culture written by William H. Beezley and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-03-16 with total page 701 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to Mexican History and Culture features 40 essays contributed by international scholars that incorporate ethnic, gender, environmental, and cultural studies to reveal a richer portrait of the Mexican experience, from the earliest peoples to the present. Features the latest scholarship on Mexican history and culture by an array of international scholars Essays are separated into sections on the four major chronological eras Discusses recent historical interpretations with critical historiographical sources, and is enriched by cultural analysis, ethnic and gender studies, and visual evidence The first volume to incorporate a discussion of popular music in political analysis This book is the receipient of the 2013 Michael C. Meyer Special Recognition Award from the Rocky Mountain Conference on Latin American Studies.
Author : Orlando O. Espn
Publisher : Orbis Books
ISBN 13 : 160833161X
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (83 download)
Download or read book The Faith of the People written by Orlando O. Espn and published by Orbis Books. This book was released on 1997 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shows how popular Catholicism represents, for the Latino community, a font of living revelation and the source of a vital theological insight into such areas as the nature of God, the Trinity, Christology, and salvation.
Author : Inga Clendinnen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110769356X
Total Pages : 575 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (76 download)
Download or read book Aztecs written by Inga Clendinnen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-05-15 with total page 575 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recreates the culture of the city of Tenochtitlan in its last unthreatened years before it fell to the Spaniards.
Author : Tilo Schabert
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110672200
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Wherefrom Does History Emerge? written by Tilo Schabert and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-10-26 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Powers of chaos accompany any order of the human world, being the force against which this order is set. Human experience of history is two-fold. There is history ruled by chaos and history ruled by order. "History" occurs in a continuous flow of both histories. The dialectics of life unto nothingness/creation, struggles for order/order achieved is unceasingly actual. In exploring it, within a wide interdisciplinary and transcultural range, this book reaches beyond a conventional "philosophy of history". It deals with the chaotic as well as the cosmic part of the human historical experience. It stages this drama through the tales that religious, mythical, literary, philosophical, folkloristic, and historiographical sources tell and which are retold and interpreted here. From early on humans wished to know where, why, and wherefore all started and took place. Couldn’t the dialectics between chaos and order be meaningful? Couldn’t they assume a productive role as to the world’s precarious event? Power, strife, guilt, divine grace and revelation, literary symbolization, as well as storytelling are discussed in this book. Philosophy, political theory, theology, religious studies, and literary studies will greatly benefit from its width and density.
Author : Deborah L. Nichols
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190634162
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of the Aztecs written by Deborah L. Nichols and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-11-03 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of the Aztecs, the first of its kind, provides a current overview of recent research on the Aztec empire, the best documented prehispanic society in the Americas. Chapters span from the establishment of Aztec city-states to the encounter with the Spanish empire and the Colonial period that shaped the modern world. Articles in the Handbook take up new research trends and methodologies and current debates. The Handbook articles are divided into seven parts. Part I, Archaeology of the Aztecs, introduces the Aztecs, as well as Aztec studies today, including the recent practice of archaeology, ethnohistory, museum studies, and conservation. The articles in Part II, Historical Change, provide a long-term view of the Aztecs starting with important predecessors, the development of Aztec city-states and imperialism, and ending with a discussion of the encounter of the Aztec and Spanish empires. Articles also discuss Aztec notions of history, writing, and time. Part III, Landscapes and Places, describes the Aztec world in terms of its geography, ecology, and demography at varying scales from households to cities. Part IV, Economic and Social Relations in the Aztec Empire, discusses the ethnic complexity of the Aztec world and social and economic relations that have been a major focus of archaeology. Articles in Part V, Aztec Provinces, Friends, and Foes, focuses on the Aztec's dynamic relations with distant provinces, and empires and groups that resisted conquest, and even allied with the Spanish to overthrow the Aztec king. This is followed by Part VI, Ritual, Belief, and Religion, which examines the different beliefs and rituals that formed Aztec religion and their worldview, as well as the material culture of religious practice. The final section of the volume, Aztecs after the Conquest, carries the Aztecs through the post-conquest period, an increasingly important area of archaeological work, and considers the place of the Aztecs in the modern world.
Author : Steven W. Hackel
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520295390
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)
Download or read book The Worlds of Junipero Serra written by Steven W. Hackel and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2018-02-23 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In September 2015, Junâipero Serra was canonized by Pope Francis in Washington DC against the protest of many Californian Native Americans who criticized his brutal treatment of their ancestors and destruction of their culture. Like most complex historical figures, Junâipero Serra has been interpreted in countless ways, often contextualized mainly in California. This book situates Serra in the context of the three major places that he lived, learned, and proselytized: Mallorca, Mexico, and Alta California. Scholars from all three countries contribute to a rare glimpse into the life of the saint by considering his use of music and art, his representation in popular culture; his education, ideology, and Franciscan influence; the plans and building of the missions; and his relation to native peoples."--Provided by publisher.
Author : William B. Taylor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107102677
Total Pages : 681 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Theater of a Thousand Wonders written by William B. Taylor and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-10-03 with total page 681 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive historical study of the images and shrines of New Spain, rich in stories and patterns of change over time.
