Author: Janet Catherine BerloPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
This volume is part of a two volume set: ISBN 9781407391076 (Volume I); ISBN 9781407391083 (Volume II); ISBN 9780860542551 (Volume set).
Teotihuacan Art Abroad
Author: Janet Catherine BerloPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
This volume is part of a two volume set: ISBN 9781407391076 (Volume I); ISBN 9781407391083 (Volume II); ISBN 9780860542551 (Volume set).
Art, Ideology, and the City of Teotihuacan
Author: Janet Catherine BerloPublisher: Dumbarton Oaks
ISBN: 9780884022053
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
Teotihuacan Art Abroad
Author: Janet Catherine BerloPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
This volume is part of a two volume set: ISBN 9781407391076 (Volume I); ISBN 9781407391083 (Volume II); ISBN 9780860542551 (Volume set).
Teotihuacan
Author: Esther PasztoryPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806128474
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
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 Art of Urbanism
Author: William Leonard FashPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780884023449
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
The Art of Urbanism explores how the royal courts of powerful Mesoamerican centers represented their kingdoms in architectural, iconographic, and cosmological terms. Through an investigation of the ecological contexts and environmental opportunities of urban centers, the contributors consider how ancient Mesoamerican cities defined themselves and reflected upon their physicalâe"and metaphysicalâe"place via their built environment. Themes in the volume include the ways in which a kingdomâe(tm)s public monuments were fashioned to reflect geographic space, patron gods, and mythology, and how the Olmec, Maya, Mexica, Zapotecs, and others sought to center their world through architectural monuments and public art. This collection of papers addresses how communities leveraged their environment and built upon their cultural and historical roots as well as the ways that the performance of calendrical rituals and other public events tied individuals and communities to both urban centers and hinterlands. Twenty-three scholars from archaeology, anthropology, art history, and religious studies contribute new data and new perspectives to the understanding of ancient Mesoamericansâe(tm) own view of their spectacular urban and ritual centers.
Mesoamerica After the Decline of Teotihuacan, A.D. 700-900
Author: Richard A. DiehlPublisher: Dumbarton Oaks
ISBN: 9780884021759
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
The Teotihuacan Trinity
Author: Annabeth HeadrickPublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292749872
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 415
Book Description
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.
Teotihuacan Art Abroad
Author: Janet Catherine BerloExhibiting the Foreign on U.S. Soil
Author: Kathleen BerrinPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1538134098
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 389
Book Description
The uneasy relationship between the arts, US art museums, and the federal government has not been thoroughly explored by scholars. This book focuses on the development of “national diplomacy exhibitions” during World War II and the early Cold War and explains how the War provided the government with an impetus to create a national arts policy. It discusses how national diplomacy exhibitions on US soil were deployed as persuasive tools to influence public opinion, to reconcile discrepancies between high art and democracy, and to resolve America’s lagging art status and difficulties with “the foreign.” The type of soft diplomacy that art museums provide by initiating national diplomacy exhibitions has not received emphasis in the scholarly community and art museums have essentially been ignored in cultural studies of the early Cold War. Scholarly analysis of museum exhibitions in the last quarter of the 20th century is now a popular topic, but investigations of exhibitions between 1939-1960 have been thin. By scrutinizing major exhibitions during those formative years this book takes a new perspective and examines the foundational development of the so-called “blockbuster” exhibition stimulated by World War II. The book will interest readers in visual studies, history, museums, cultural affairs, government, and international diplomacy.
Ancient Teotihuacan
Author: George L. CowgillPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 052187033X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
Long before the Aztecs and 800 miles from Classic Maya centers, Teotihuacan was part of a broad Mesoamerican tradition but had a distinctive personality. This book synthesizes a century of research, including recent finds, and covers the lives of commoners as well as elites.