The art and architecture of ancient America : the Mexican, Maya, and Andean peoples
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The art and architecture of ancient America : the Mexican, Maya, and Andean peoples
（Yale University Press Pelican history of art）
Yale University Press, 1993, c1990
3rd ed., repr. with additional bibliography, new impression
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"First published 1962 by Penguin Books Ltd. Third edition reprinted with additional bibliography 1990. New impression 1993 by Yale University Press"--T.p. verso
Includes chronologies (p. [20]-23), bibliographical notes (p. [471]-521), bibliography (p. [525]-548), and index
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Description
This book examines the development of the principal styles of ancient American architecture, sculpture, and painting until the end of the Aztec and Inca empires in the 16th century. The book tries to explain works of art as such, rather than dwelling upon those ideas about civilization which art is often made to illustrate in books of a more archaeological character. The book is arranged by geographical regions in three main divisions: Mexico, Central America and western South America. Architecture, sculpture and painting occupy most of the volume, but town planning, pottery, textiles and jewellery are also discussed. Many of the illustrations portray little known sites, buildings and objects.
Table of Contents
- Introduction: the lands and the peoples - Mesoamerica - the Andean environment
- the chronological problem
- anthropology and American antiquity
- diffusion or polygenesis?
- the history of art
- the place of the artist - the early hunters, early villagers, the theocracies, the terminal stages. Part 1 The Mexican civilizations: early central Mexico - formative - 3000-500 BC, Teotihuacan - 100 BC - AD 750 - chronology, architecture, sculpture, painting, Xochicalco
- central Mexico after AD 800 - the Toltec revolution - architecture, sculpture, the Chichimec interlude, the Aztec confederacy - architecture, sculpture, painting
- the Gulf coast - the Olmec style - ideographic forms, colossal heads, relief sculpture, figurines of clay and jade, painting, the central coast - architecture, stone sculpture, "clay figurines and heads, the Huastec
- southern Mexico - the classic Zapotec style - architecture, stone sculpture, clay sculpture, wall painting, the Mixtecs - mitla, the marriage reliefs, murals, painted books and maps, ceramics
- Western Mexico - the stone-workers of Guerrero, the potters of Colima, Jalisco, and Nayarit, Michoacan, the northern plateaus. Part 2 The Maya and their neighbours: the Maya tradition - architecture: classic Maya - geographical divisions, temporal divisions, classic architecture - the Peten, the river cities, the dry forest - Rio Bec, the well country - Los Chenes, the hill country - the Puuc
- the Maya tradition - sculpture and painting: sculpture - commemorative monuments and figural reliefs, jades, pottery, architectural decoration
- painting - pottery painting
- from the Toltec Maya to the Spaniards - architecture - Chichen Itza, the east coast, the problem of Tula, sculpture - full-round figures, processional reliefs, painting - murals, manuscripts
- the neighbours of the Maya - the Guatemalan highlands, Eastern Central America - the Ulua marbles, Costa Rican mainland sculpture, the Pacific coast. Part 3 The Andean civilizationis: the northern Andes - Colombia and Ecuador - northern Central America, Colombia - architecture, sculpture, metalwork, the Pacific equatorial coast
- the central Andes - early northern Peru - pre-Chavin remains, Ancash art
- the upper north - Mochica and Chimu
- central Peru
- the south coast valleys - Paracas and Nazca
- the south highlands - Altiplano, Tiahuanaco, Mantaro Basin, Cuzco. (Part contents).
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