Lightning Gods and Feathered Serpents : : The Public Sculpture of El Tajín / / Rex Koontz.
El Tajín, an ancient Mesoamerican capital in Veracruz, Mexico, has long been admired for its stunning pyramids and ballcourts decorated with extensive sculptural programs. Yet the city's singularity as the only center in the region with such a wealth of sculpture and fine architecture has hinde...
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Koontz, Rex, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Lightning Gods and Feathered Serpents : The Public Sculpture of El Tajín / Rex Koontz. Austin : University of Texas Press, [2021] ©2009 1 online resource (151 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda The Linda Schele Series in Maya and Pre-Columbian Studies Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1 Approaching El Tajín -- Chapter 2 The Pyramid of the Niches -- Chapter 3 The Divine Ballcourt -- Chapter 4 The Tajín Court -- Chapter 5 Audiences and Deities at El Tajín -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star El Tajín, an ancient Mesoamerican capital in Veracruz, Mexico, has long been admired for its stunning pyramids and ballcourts decorated with extensive sculptural programs. Yet the city's singularity as the only center in the region with such a wealth of sculpture and fine architecture has hindered attempts to place it more firmly in the context of Mesoamerican history. In Lightning Gods and Feathered Serpents, Rex Koontz undertakes the first extensive treatment of El Tajín's iconography in over thirty years, allowing us to view its imagery in the broader Mesoamerican context of rising capitals and new elites during a period of fundamental historical transformations. Koontz focuses on three major architectural features—the Pyramid of the Niches/Central Plaza ensemble, the South Ballcourt, and the Mound of the Building Columns complex—and investigates the meanings of their sculpture and how these meanings would have been experienced by specific audiences. Koontz finds that the iconography of El Tajín reveals much about how motifs and elite rites growing out of the Classic period were transmitted to later Mesoamerican peoples as the cultures centered on Teotihuacan and the Maya became the myriad city-states of the Early Postclassic period. By reexamining the iconography of sculptures long in the record, as well as introducing important new monuments and contexts, Lightning Gods and Feathered Serpents clearly demonstrates El Tajín's numerous iconographic connections with other areas of Mesoamerica, while also exploring its roots in an indigenous Gulf lowlands culture whose outlines are only now emerging. At the same time, it begins to uncover a largely ignored regional artistic culture of which Tajín is the crowning achievement. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2022) Totonac architecture Mexico Veracruz-Llave (State). Totonac art Mexico Veracruz-Llave (State). Totonac sculpture Mexico Veracruz-Llave (State). SOCIAL SCIENCE / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110745344 https://doi.org/10.7560/718999 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780292793613 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780292793613/original |
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