Unseen art : making, vision, and power in ancient Mesoamerica /

"Claudia Brittenham is interested in understanding a puzzling phenomenon in Mesoamerican art history: why many of the objects that we now view in museums were, in their original contexts, extraordinarily difficult to see. We have become so used to seeing art, usually fully displayed when in a m...

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Tác giả chính: Brittenham, Claudia (Tác giả)
Định dạng: Licensed eBooks
Ngôn ngữ:Tiếng Anh
Được phát hành: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2023.
Phiên bản:First edition.
Loạt:Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long series in Latin American and Latino art and culture.
Truy cập trực tuyến:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7560/325964
Mục lục:
  • Introduction. Seeing and knowing
  • Making : building community at La Venta
  • Vision : seeing Maya lintels
  • Power : carving the undersides of Aztec sculpture
  • Conclusion. The language of Zuyua.