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Book The Murals of Tepantitla  Teotihuacan

Download or read book The Murals of Tepantitla Teotihuacan written by Esther Pasztory and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Place of the High Painted Walls

Download or read book Place of the High Painted Walls written by Jennifer Kathleen Browder and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 1310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Iconography of the Teotihuacan Tlaloc

Download or read book The Iconography of the Teotihuacan Tlaloc written by Esther Pasztory and published by Dumbarton Oaks. This book was released on 1974 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Mural Painting of Teotihuac  n

Download or read book The Mural Painting of Teotihuac n written by Arthur G. Miller and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Murals of Tepantitla  Teotihuacan

Download or read book The Murals of Tepantitla Teotihuacan written by Esther Pasztory and published by Garland Publishing. This book was released on 1976 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Pre Columbian Painting

Download or read book The Pre Columbian Painting written by Beatriz de la Fuente and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique work of reference is produced by the Instituto de Investigaciones Esteticas (University of Mexico City -- UNAM), responsible for the first catalogue of the mural painting of Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica. Although few of these paintings have survived the passing of time, what remains is a priceless testimony of an extremely refined, sometimes strongly dramatic, artistic sensibility.

Book Feathered Serpents and Flowering Trees

Download or read book Feathered Serpents and Flowering Trees written by Kathleen Berrin and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the Wagner collection of ancient Mexican murals.

Book Teotihuacan

    Book Details:
  • Author : Esther Pasztory
  • Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
  • Release : 1997
  • ISBN : 9780806128474
  • Pages : 318 pages

Download or read book Teotihuacan written by Esther Pasztory and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Iconography of the art of teotihuacan

Download or read book Iconography of the art of teotihuacan written by George Kubler and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Teotihuacan Trinity

Download or read book The Teotihuacan Trinity written by Annabeth Headrick and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2013-03-15 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Art  Ideology  and the City of Teotihuacan

Download or read book Art Ideology and the City of Teotihuacan written by Janet Catherine Berlo and published by Dumbarton Oaks. This book was released on 1992 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Iconography of the Art of Teotihuac  n

Download or read book The Iconography of the Art of Teotihuac n written by George Kubler and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Masks of the Spirit

    Book Details:
  • Author : Peter T. Markman
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 1989-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780520064188
  • Pages : 304 pages

Download or read book Masks of the Spirit written by Peter T. Markman and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on secondary works in archaeology, art history, folklore, ethnohistory, ethnography, and literature, the authors maintain that the mask is the central metaphor for the Mesoamerican concept of spiritual reality. Covers the long history of the use of the ritual mask by the peoples who created and developed the mythological tradition of Mesoamerica. Chapters: (1) the metaphor of the mask in Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica: the mask as the God, in ritual, and as metaphor; (II) metaphoric reflections of the cosmic order; and (III) the metaphor of the mask after the conquest: syncretism; the Pre-Columbian survivals; the syncretic compromise; and today's masks. Over 100 color and black-&-white photos.

Book Mesoamerican Open Spaces and Mural Paintings as Statements of Cultural Identity

Download or read book Mesoamerican Open Spaces and Mural Paintings as Statements of Cultural Identity written by Celina B. Barrios de Senisterra and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2019-09-20 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sensitive perception of a society’s artistic expressions facilitates our comprehension of its ethos, enabling the meaningful communication between individuals and communities, which is the fundamental link that connects human beings. This book explores the spirit of the Mesoamerican civilization from pre-history until the 20th century, interpreting its architectural legacy, both in the planned environments of the public plazas, and in the art that is integrated into structural designs, exemplified by the Mexican mural paintings. The first part studies the open areas defined by substantially symbolic architecture, providing the spatial forum for the spiritual and consequential collective manifestations of the native population throughout the history of Mesoamerica, linking past, present, and future generations. The second part focuses on mural painting, which has been a consistent universal medium for eloquent cultural interaction among Mesoamericans.

Book Thinking with Things

    Book Details:
  • Author : Esther Pasztory
  • Publisher : University of Texas Press
  • Release : 2005-08-01
  • ISBN : 9780292706910
  • Pages : 268 pages

Download or read book Thinking with Things written by Esther Pasztory and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2005-08-01 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "At its heart, Pasztory's thesis is simple and yet profound. She asserts that humans create things (some of which modern Western society chooses to call "art") in order to work out our ideas - that is, we literally think with things. Pasztory draws on examples from many societies to argue that the art-making impulse is primarily cognitive and only secondarily aesthetic. She demonstrates that "art" always reflects the specific social context in which it is created, and that as societies become more complex, their art becomes more rarefied."--Jacket.