Unseen Art : : Making, Vision, and Power in Ancient Mesoamerica / / Claudia Brittenham.
In Unseen Art, Claudia Brittenham unravels one of the most puzzling phenomena in Mesoamerican art history: why many of the objects that we view in museums today were once so difficult to see. She examines the importance that ancient Mesoamerican people assigned to the process of making and enlivenin...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Arts 2023 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2023] ©2023 |
Year of Publication: | 2023 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (184 p.) :; 127 color and b&w photos, 36 color and b&w illustrations, 4 maps |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- LIST OF TABLES AND ILLUSTRATIONS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- INTRODUCTION: SEEING AND KNOWING
- CHAPTER 1 MAKING Building Community at La Venta
- CHAPTER 2 VISION Seeing Maya Lintels
- CHAPTER 3 POWER Carving the Undersides of Aztec Sculpture
- CONCLUSION: THE LANGUAGE OF ZUYUA
- NOTES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX