Ancient Maya Art At Dumbarton Oaks

Author : Dumbarton Oaks
Publisher : Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Maya art
ISBN : 0884023753

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Ancient Maya Art at Dumbarton Oaks by Dumbarton Oaks Pdf

This introduction to Maya art is based on study of one of the most important collections in the United States, assembled by Robert Woods Bliss between 1935 and 1962. The catalogue, written by leading Maya scholars, contains detailed analyses of specific works of art along with thematic essays situating them within the context of Maya culture.

Author : David Stuart,Stephen D. Houston
Publisher : Dumbarton Oaks
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 0884022099

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Classic Maya Place Names by David Stuart,Stephen D. Houston Pdf

The authors present evidence that specific place names do exist in Maya inscriptions, and show that identifying these names sheds considerable light on both past and present questions about the Maya.

Author : Karl A. Taube,Dumbarton Oaks
Publisher : Dumbarton Oaks
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Art
ISBN : 0884022757

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Olmec Art at Dumbarton Oaks by Karl A. Taube,Dumbarton Oaks Pdf

Olmec Art at Dumbarton Oaks presents the Olmec portion of the Robert Woods Bliss Collection of Pre-Columbian Art. It illustrates all thirty-nine Olmec art objects in color plates and includes many complementary and comparative black-and-white illustrations and drawings. The body of Pre-Columbian art that Robert Bliss carefully assembled over a half-century between 1912 and 1963, amplified only slightly since his death, is a remarkably significant collection. In addition to their aesthetic quality and artistic significance, the objects hold much information regarding the social worlds and religious and symbolic views of the people who made and used them before the arrival of Europeans in the New World. This volume is the second in a series of catalogues that will treat objects in the Bliss Pre-Columbian Collection. The majority of the Olmec objects in the collection are made of jade, the most precious material for the peoples of ancient Mesoamerica from early times through the sixteenth century. Various items such as masks, statuettes, jewelry, and replicas of weapons and tools were used for ceremonial purposes and served as offerings. Karl Taube brings his expertise on the lifeways and beliefs of ancient Mesoamerican peoples to his study of the Olmec objects in teh Bliss collection. His understanding of jade covers a broad range of knowledge from chemical compositions to geological sources to craft technology to the symbolic power of the green stone. Throughout the book the author emphasizes the role of jade as a powerful symbol of water, fertility, and particularly, of the maize plant which was the fundamental source of life and sustenance for the Olmec. The shiny green of the stone was analogous to the green growth of maize. This fundamental concept was elaborated in specific religious beliefs, many of which were continued and elaborated by later Mesoamerican peoples, such as the Maya. Karl Taube employs his substantial knowledge of Pre-Columbian cultures to explore and explicate Olmec symbolism in this catalogue.

Author : Michael D. Coe,Elizabeth P. Benson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Art maya
ISBN : OCLC:1037021586

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Three Maya Relief Panels at Dumbarton Oaks by Michael D. Coe,Elizabeth P. Benson Pdf

Author : Julia Guernsey,John E. Clark,Bárbara Arroyo
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Indian sculpture
ISBN : 0884023648

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The Place of Stone Monuments by Julia Guernsey,John E. Clark,Bárbara Arroyo Pdf

This volume considers the significance of stone monuments in Preclassic Mesoamerica. By placing sculptures in their cultural, historical, social, political, religious, and cognitive contexts, the seventeen contributors utilize archaeological and art historical methods to understand the origins, growth, and spread of civilization in Middle America.

Author : Elizabeth Hill Boone,Gordon Randolph Willey
Publisher : Dumbarton Oaks
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : 088402170X

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The Southeast Classic Maya Zone by Elizabeth Hill Boone,Gordon Randolph Willey Pdf

Author : William Leonard Fash,Leonardo López Luján
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0884023443

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The Art of Urbanism by William Leonard Fash,Leonardo López Luján Pdf

The Art of Urbanism explores how the royal courts of powerful Mesoamerican centers represented their kingdoms in architectural, iconographic, and cosmological terms. Through an investigation of the ecological contexts and environmental opportunities of urban centers, the contributors consider how ancient Mesoamerican cities defined themselves and reflected upon their physicalâe"and metaphysicalâe"place via their built environment. Themes in the volume include the ways in which a kingdomâe(tm)s public monuments were fashioned to reflect geographic space, patron gods, and mythology, and how the Olmec, Maya, Mexica, Zapotecs, and others sought to center their world through architectural monuments and public art. This collection of papers addresses how communities leveraged their environment and built upon their cultural and historical roots as well as the ways that the performance of calendrical rituals and other public events tied individuals and communities to both urban centers and hinterlands. Twenty-three scholars from archaeology, anthropology, art history, and religious studies contribute new data and new perspectives to the understanding of ancient Mesoamericansâe(tm) own view of their spectacular urban and ritual centers.

Author : Maline D. Werness-Rude,Kaylee R. Spencer
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Maya architecture
ISBN : 9780826355799

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Maya Imagery, Architecture, and Activity by Maline D. Werness-Rude,Kaylee R. Spencer Pdf

Maya Imagery, Architecture, and Activity privileges art historical perspectives in addressing the ways the ancient Maya organized, manipulated, created, interacted with, and conceived of the world around them. The Maya provide a particularly strong example of the ways in which the built and imaged environment are intentionally oriented relative to political, religious, economic, and other spatial constructs. In examining space, the contributors of this volume demonstrate the core interrelationships inherent in a wide variety of places and spaces, both concrete and abstract. They explore the links between spatial order and cosmic order and the possibility that such connections have sociopolitical consequences. This book will prove useful not just to Mayanists but to art historians in other fields and scholars from a variety of disciplines, including anthropology, archaeology, geography, and landscape architecture.

Author : Stephen Houston
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-25
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780300196023

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The Life Within by Stephen Houston Pdf

Beautifully written and illustrated, The Life Within is the first full study of the vitality and materiality of Classic Maya art and writing and the quest for transcendence and immortality.

Author : Michael D. Coe
Publisher : Dumbarton Oaks
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : History
ISBN : 0884020134

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An Early Stone Pectoral from Southeastern Mexico by Michael D. Coe Pdf

Author : Stephen D. Houston
Publisher : Dumbarton Oaks
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0884022544

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Function and Meaning in Classic Maya Architecture by Stephen D. Houston Pdf

These articles mark a significant stage in the study of Maya architecture and the society that built it. They represent advances in our understandings of the past, point toward avenues for further studies, and note the distance yet to travel in fully appreciating and understanding this ancient American culture and its material remains.

Author : Sylvanus Griswold Morley
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Maya calendar
ISBN : 9781465582430

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An Introduction to the Study of the Maya Hieroglyphs by Sylvanus Griswold Morley Pdf

Author : Elizabeth P. Benson,Gillett G. Griffin
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 485 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2024-01-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780691264943

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Maya Iconography by Elizabeth P. Benson,Gillett G. Griffin Pdf

A landmark work on the iconography of one of the world’s great civilizations This book presents foundational work on Maya iconography from leading practitioners in fields ranging from archaeology, anthropology, and art history to linguistics, astronomy, photography, and medicine. The period discussed runs from the last centuries B.C. through the great Maya Classic period, with some discussion of later eras and of regions outside the Maya area. Featuring an incisive introduction by Elizabeth Benson and Gillett Griffin, Maya Iconography demonstrates how Maya beliefs developed over time and makes important connections between Preclassic and Classic iconography. The contributors are John Carlson, Michael Coe, David Freidel, Donald Hales, Norman Hammond, Nicholas Hellmuth, John Justeson, Barbara Kerr, Justin Kerr, Mary Ellen Miller, William Norman, Lee Parsons, Francis Robicsek, Linda Schele, David Stuart, and Karl Taube.

Author : Dumbarton Oaks,Michael D. Coe
Publisher : Dumbarton Oaks Pub Service
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Indian pottery
ISBN : 0884020630

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Classic Maya Pottery at Dumbarton Oaks by Dumbarton Oaks,Michael D. Coe Pdf

Author : Dumbarton Oaks
Publisher : Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Art, Mexican
ISBN : 0884023451

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Ancient Mexican Art at Dumbarton Oaks by Dumbarton Oaks Pdf

This volume presents the collection of Aztec, Mixtec, Zapotec, Teotihuacan, and Classic Veracruz sculpture, jewelry, and painting. Four leading scholars present essays on the ancient art and archaeology of Mexico's Central Highlands, Southwestern Highlands, and Gulf Lowlands as well as extensive catalogue entries of over one hundred objects.