Olmec Art Of Ancient Mexico

Author : National Gallery of Art (U.S.)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Olmec Art of Ancient Mexico written by National Gallery of Art (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fourteen Olmec specialists discuss not only the works of art but also the many recent finds, that provide insights into Mexico's most ancient culture, as well as its cultural history, cosmology, and daily life. Colour photos. Quarto.

Author : Kathleen Berrin
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300166767
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Olmec written by Kathleen Berrin and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This catalogue was published by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art on the occasion of the exhibition Olmec: Colossal Masterworks of Ancient Mexico"--Colophon.

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ISBN 13 : 9780810962385
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Author : Michael D. Coe
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mexico written by Michael D. Coe and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Masterly....The complexities of Mexico's ancient cultures are perceptively presented and interpreted.--Library Journal

Author : Susan M. Arensberg
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Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Olmec written by Susan M. Arensberg and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : National Gallery of Art (U.S.)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 12 pages
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Download or read book Olmec written by National Gallery of Art (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Karl A. Taube
Publisher : Dumbarton Oaks
ISBN 13 : 9780884022756
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Olmec Art at Dumbarton Oaks written by Karl A. Taube and published by Dumbarton Oaks. This book was released on 2004 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
ISBN 13 : 0500771596
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mexico: From the Olmecs to the Aztecs written by Michael D. Coe and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 2013-06-14 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Masterly. . . . The complexities of Mexico’s ancient cultures are perceptively presented and interpreted.” —Library Journal Michael D. Coe’s Mexico has long been recognized as the most readable and authoritative introduction to the region’s ancient civilizations. This companion to his best-selling The Maya has now been revised by Professor Coe and Rex Koontz. The seventh edition incorporates new findings in a number of disciplines. The solution to the long-standing puzzle of the origin of maize-farming has at last been solved, and spectacular new discoveries shed light on Mexico’s earliest civilization, the Olmec culture. At the great city of Teotihuacan, recent investigations in the earliest monumental pyramid indicate the antiquity of certain sacrificial practices and the symbolism of the pyramid. Expanded information on the Huastec region of the northeastern Gulf of Mexico is included, while discoveries in the sacred precinct of the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan have led to a refined understanding of the history and symbolism of this hallowed area.

Author : Jorge Enciso
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486200841
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Design Motifs of Ancient Mexico written by Jorge Enciso and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1953-01-01 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Numerous primitive designs from early Mexican cultures are reproduced to demonstrate native decorative ingenuity and inspire modern artists and designers

Author : Mary Ellen Miller
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Total Pages : 288 pages
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Download or read book The Art of Mesoamerica written by Mary Ellen Miller and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: