The Ancient Americas : art from sacred landscapes / Richard F. Townsend, general editor ; with essays by Anthony F. Aveni [and others].

Format Book
Publication InfoChicago : Art Institute of Chicago : Munich : Prestel Verlag ; New York, N.Y. : Distribution of the hardcover ed. by Neues Pub. Co., ©1992.
Description397 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 30 cm
Subjects
Indian art.
Indians--Antiquities.
America--Antiquities.
America--Antiquities.

Other author/creatorTownsend, Richard F.
Other author/creatorArt Institute of Chicago.
Other author/creatorMuseum of Fine Arts, Houston.
Other author/creatorLos Angeles County Museum of Art.
Contents Principles and themes -- Introduction: landscape and symbol / Richard F. Townsend -- Pre-Columbian images of time / Anthony F. Aveni -- The persistence of Maya tradition in Zinacantan / Evon Z. Vogt -- Mankind and the earth in America and Europe / Vincent Scully -- The Southwest -- Mimbres art: form and imagery / J.J. Brody -- The architecture of the ancient Southwest / Stephen H. Lekson -- Mesoamerica -- Order and nature in Olmec art / Beatriz de la Fuente -- The natural world as civic metaphor at Teotihuacan / Esther Pasztory -- The beginnings of preclassic Maya art and architecture / Juan Antonio Valdes -- The image of people and nature in classic Maya art and architecture / Mary Ellen Miller -- The renewal of nature at the temple of Tlaloc / Richard F. Townsend -- The Aztec main pyramid: ritual architecture at Tenochtitlan / Eduardo Matos Moctezuma -- Pictorial codices of ancient Mexico / Elizabeth Hill Boone -- Central America and the northern Andes -- Cosmovision of the chiefdoms of the Isthmus of Panama / Mary W. Helms -- Symbols, ideology, and the expression of power in La Tolita, Ecuador / Francisco Valdez -- The Tairona of ancient Colombia / Tom Zuidema -- Andean civilization / The sacred center of Chavin de Huantar / Richard L. Burger -- Paracas Necropolis textiles: symbolic visions of coastal Peru / Anne Paul -- Interpreting the Nazca lines / Johan Reinhard -- The world of Moche / Elizabeth P. Benson -- Tiwanaku: the city at the center / Alan Kolata, Carlos Ponce Sangines -- Camelids and chaos in Huari and Tiwanaku textiles / Rebecca Stone-Miller -- Inca architecture and the sacred landscape / Susan A. Niles -- Ancestral time and sacred space in Inca state ritual / Colin McEwan, Maarten Van de Guchte.
General notePublished in conjunction with the exhibition organized by the Art Institute of Chicago and shown at the Art Institute, Oct. 10, 1992-Jan. 3, 1993; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Feb. 4-Apr. 18, 1993; and the Los Anglees County Museum of Art, June 6-Aug. 15, 1993.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 383-392).
LCCN 92021869
ISBN0865591040 (paper)
ISBN3791311883 (hardcover)

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner General Stacks E59.A7 A42 1992 ✔ Available Place Hold