Author: George KublerPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 52
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Iconography of the art of teotihuacan
Author: George KublerArt, Ideology, and the City of Teotihuacan
Author: Janet Catherine BerloPublisher: Dumbarton Oaks
ISBN: 9780884022053
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 462
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The Iconography of the Teotihuacan Tlaloc
Author: Esther PasztoryPublisher: Dumbarton Oaks
ISBN: 9780884020592
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 28
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Teotihuacan
Author: Esther PasztoryPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806128474
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 318
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This book is the first comprehensive study and reinterpretation of the unique arts of Teotihuacan, including architecture, sculpture, mural painting, and ceramics. Comparing the arts of Teotihuacan - not previously judged "artistic" - with those of other ancient civilizations, Ester Pasztory demonstrates how they created and reflected the community’s ideals. Most people associate the pyramids of central Mexico with the Aztecs, but these colossal constructions antedate the Aztecs by more than a thousand years. The people of Teotihuacan, who built the pyramids as part of a city of unprecedented size, remain a mystery.
The Iconography of the Art of Teotihuacán
Author: George KublerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indian art
Languages : en
Pages : 40
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The Teotihuacan Trinity
Author: Annabeth HeadrickPublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292749872
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 415
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Northeast of modern-day Mexico City stand the remnants of one of the world's largest preindustrial cities, Teotihuacan. Monumental in scale, Teotihuacan is organized along a three-mile-long thoroughfare, the Avenue of the Dead, that leads up to the massive Pyramid of the Moon. Lining the avenue are numerous plazas and temples, which indicate that the city once housed a large population that engaged in complex rituals and ceremonies. Although scholars have studied Teotihuacan for over a century, the precise nature of its religious and political life has remained unclear, in part because no one has yet deciphered the glyphs that may explain much about the city's organization and belief systems. In this groundbreaking book, Annabeth Headrick analyzes Teotihuacan's art and architecture, in the light of archaeological data and Mesoamerican ethnography, to propose a new model for the city's social and political organization. Challenging the view that Teotihuacan was a peaceful city in which disparate groups united in an ideology of solidarity, Headrick instead identifies three social groups that competed for political power—rulers, kin-based groups led by influential lineage heads, and military orders that each had their own animal insignia. Her findings provide the most complete evidence to date that Teotihuacan had powerful rulers who allied with the military to maintain their authority in the face of challenges by the lineage heads. Headrick's analysis also underscores the importance of warfare in Teotihuacan society and clarifies significant aspects of its ritual life, including shamanism and an annual tree-raising ceremony that commemorated the Mesoamerican creation story.
George A. Kubler and the Shape of Art History
Author: Thomas F. ReesePublisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 1606068342
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
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.
The Art and Iconography of Late Post-Classic Central Mexico
Author: Elizabeth Hill BoonePublisher: Dumbarton Oaks
ISBN: 9780884021100
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 272
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Iconographic Method in New World Prehistory
Author: Vernon J. KnightPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107022630
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
This book offers an overview of iconographic methods and their application to archaeological analysis. It offers a truly interdisciplinary approach that draws equally from art history and anthropology. Vernon James Knight, Jr., begins with a historigraphical overview, addressing the methodologies and theories that underpin both archaeology and art history. He then demonstrates how iconographic methods can be integrated with the scientific methods that are at the core of much archaeological inquiry. Focusing on artifacts from the pre-Columbian civilizations of North and Meso-American sites, Knight shows how the use of iconographic analysis yields new insights into these objects and civilizations.
The Image in Writing
Author: Hans G. KippenbergPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9789004085473
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 220
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