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Three Thousand Years Of Art And Life In Mexico As Seen In The National Museum Of Anthropology Mexico City
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Book Synopsis 3000 Years of Art and Life in Mexico by : Ignacio Bernal
Download or read book 3000 Years of Art and Life in Mexico written by Ignacio Bernal and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three thousand years of art and life are superbly displayed in the National Museum of Anthropology, in Chapultepec Park, Mexico City. Opened in 1964, it embodies entirely new concepts of museum design. Years of planning were devoted to ensuring that the collection (the richest accumulation of Mexican artifacts in the world) would be rehoused in a building specially designed for it and providing ample space for future acquisitions. Specialists in many fields participated: anthropologists photographed Mexican tribes; archaeologists excavated sites in order to fill gaps in the collection; craftsmen executed reconstructions of vanished civilizations. The outcome is a comprehensive and scientifically ordered panorama of the ancient cultures of Mesoamerica, from prehistory to the Spanish conquest, and their still continuing heritage. -- Provided by publisher
Book Synopsis Three Thousand Years of Art and Life in Mexico As Seen in the National Museum of Anthropology, Mexico City by : Ignacio Bernal
Download or read book Three Thousand Years of Art and Life in Mexico As Seen in the National Museum of Anthropology, Mexico City written by Ignacio Bernal and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Three Thousand Years of Art and Life in Mexico by : Ignacio Bernal
Download or read book Three Thousand Years of Art and Life in Mexico written by Ignacio Bernal and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis 3000 Years of Art and Life in Mexico, as Seen in the National Museum of Anthropology, Mexico City. By Ignacio Bernal with Roman Pin̄a-Chán and Fernando Cámara-Barbachano. Photos. by Irmgard Groth [Translated from the Spanish by Carolyn B. Czitrom]. by : Ignacio Bernal
Download or read book 3000 Years of Art and Life in Mexico, as Seen in the National Museum of Anthropology, Mexico City. By Ignacio Bernal with Roman Pin̄a-Chán and Fernando Cámara-Barbachano. Photos. by Irmgard Groth [Translated from the Spanish by Carolyn B. Czitrom]. written by Ignacio Bernal and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Legends of the Plumed Serpent by : Neil Baldwin
Download or read book Legends of the Plumed Serpent written by Neil Baldwin and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2012-08-28 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meticulously pieced together from personal experiences that come with years of travel, an extensive knowledge of the historic and scholarly works, and a deep appreciation of Latin American art and culture—both ancient and modern—critically-acclaimed biographer Neil Baldwin has created a mosaic of words and images retelling the myth of the Plumed Serpent (or Quetzalcóatl) as it has evolved through the millennia. He has also created an essential guidebook for the armchair traveller and passionate tourist alike. Only a few hours by air from the United States are the mysteries and hauntingly beautiful ruins of Mexico. Among the vines intertwined in the frail latticework of crumbling palaces, spiraling geometric motifs covering vast walls that sink beneath the jungle, and nearly vertical temple steps leading hundreds of feet to a dizzying view of sky and earth, images of Quetzalcóatl abound. The fanged, bug-eyed feathered serpent thrusts his malevolent, sneering head from the pyramid at Teotihuacán; he swims in a river of rock around the temple at Xochicalco; and at Chichén Itzá, serpent and jaguar dance on a trail of stone, their embrace spawning a monstrous snake with clawed forefeet. Depicted as part man, snake, and bird, the Plumed Serpent is the earliest known creation myth from Mesoamerica, the region spanning Mexico and most of Central America. He embodies good and evil, sky and earth, feast and famine—the duality of life itself. Steep, massive temples were built in his honor at Teotihuacán, the vast city of ruins near today’s Mexico City, and at Chichén Itzá in northern Yucatán, the intricate complex that includes the famed ballcourt. Moctezuma, the ruler of the Aztecs, mistook Hernán Cortéz and the invasion of the Spanish in 1519 for the return of Quetzalcóatl. The Catholic Church with its army of Franciscan monks adapted his legend to introduce the indigenous people to Catholicism. The myth enhanced Emiliano Zapata’s stature as a latter-day Quetzalcóatl during the Mexican Revolution. Diego Rivera and the modern muralists invoked his image to include indigenous themes in their state-sponsored art. And Quetzalcóatl inspired English author D. H. Lawrence to write a new “American novel.” These and many other tales are recounted in the words and images of Neil Baldwin’s Legends of the Plumed Serpent. Whether sharing a moment of reflection among the breathtaking ruins, delving into the historic role of Quetzalcóatl during the Spanish Conquest, or tracing the themes of revolution and rebirth in the art of Rivera, Orozco, and Siqueiros, Neil Baldwin’s enlightening prose captures the imagination. Accompanied by numerous illustrations—many photographs taken by the author, and others painstakingly researched and gathered over the past decade—Legends of the Plumed Serpent is a true labor of love.
Download or read book Blood and Beauty written by Rex Koontz and published by Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press. This book was released on 2009-12-31 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Olmec Art of Ancient Mexico by : National Gallery of Art (U.S.)
Download or read book Olmec Art of Ancient Mexico written by National Gallery of Art (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fourteen Olmec specialists discuss not only the works of art but also the many recent finds, that provide insights into Mexico's most ancient culture, as well as its cultural history, cosmology, and daily life. Colour photos. Quarto.
Download or read book Unseen Art written by Claudia Brittenham and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2023-01-17 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis The National Museum of Anthropology by : Pedro Ramírez Vázquez
Download or read book The National Museum of Anthropology written by Pedro Ramírez Vázquez and published by ABRAMS. This book was released on 1968 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Hispanic Foundation Bibliographical Series by : Library of Congress. Hispanic Foundation
Download or read book The Hispanic Foundation Bibliographical Series written by Library of Congress. Hispanic Foundation and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Guide to the Holdings of the Stanford University Libraries on Middle American Anthropology by : Stanford University. Libraries
Download or read book A Guide to the Holdings of the Stanford University Libraries on Middle American Anthropology written by Stanford University. Libraries and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Adult Catalog: Authors by : Los Angeles County Public Library
Download or read book Adult Catalog: Authors written by Los Angeles County Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Hispanic Foundation Bibliographical Series written by and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis From Idols to Antiquity by : Miruna Achim
Download or read book From Idols to Antiquity written by Miruna Achim and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2017-12 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Idols to Antiquity explores the origins and tumultuous development of the National Museum of Mexico and the complicated histories of Mexican antiquities during the first half of the nineteenth century. Following independence from Spain, the National Museum of Mexico was founded in 1825 by presidential decree. Nationhood meant cultural as well as political independence, and the museum was expected to become a repository of national objects whose stories would provide the nation with an identity and teach its people to become citizens. Miruna Achim reconstructs the early years of the museum as an emerging object shaped by the logic and goals of historical actors who soon found themselves debating the origin of American civilizations, the nature of the American races, and the rightful ownership of antiquities. Achim also brings to life an array of fascinating characters—antiquarians, naturalists, artists, commercial agents, bureaucrats, diplomats, priests, customs officers, local guides, and academics on both sides of the Atlantic—who make visible the rifts and tensions intrinsic to the making of the Mexican nation and its cultural politics in the country’s postcolonial era.
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Download or read book The Publishers' Trade List Annual written by and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 1734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Adult Catalog: Subjects by : Los Angeles County Public Library
Download or read book Adult Catalog: Subjects written by Los Angeles County Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Hispanic Foundation Bibliographical Series by : Library of Congress. Hispanic Foundation
Download or read book Hispanic Foundation Bibliographical Series written by Library of Congress. Hispanic Foundation and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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