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Author:
Pre-Columbian Symposium, Dumbarton Oaks (2005 : Museo del Templo Mayor, Mexico City, Mexico) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2008079180
Title:
The art of urbanism : how Mesoamerican kingdoms represented themselves in architecture and imagery / William L. Fash and Leonardo López Luján, editors.
Publisher:
Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection ;
Copyright Date:
2009
Description:
viii, 480 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm
Subject:
Indians of Central America--Antiquities--Congresses.
Indians of Mexico--Antiquities--Congresses.
Indian art--Congresses.
Indian architecture--Congresses.
City and town life--Central America--History--Congresses.
City and town life--Mexico--History--Congresses.
Excavations (Archaeology)--Central America--Congresses.
Excavations (Archaeology)--Mexico--Congresses.
Central America--Antiquities--Congresses.
Mexico--Antiquities--Congresses.
Other Authors:
Fash, William Leonard. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n86819570
López Luján, Leonardo. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n90689208
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Early Olmec architecture and imagery / Ann Cyphers and Anna Di Castro -- The people of the Cerro : landscape, settlement, and art at middle formative period Chalcatzingo / David C. Grove and Susan D. Gillespie -- How Monte Alban represented itself / Joyce Marcus -- Centering the kingdom, centering the king : creation and legitimation at the Maya site of San Bartolo / William Saturno -- Cholula : art and architecture of an archetypal city / Gabriela Uruñuela y Ladrón de Guevara, Patricia Plunket Nagoda, and Amparo Robles Salmerón -- A mountain god in Teotihuacan art / Zoltán Paulinyi -- The House of New Fire at Teotihuacan and its legacy in Mesoamerica / William L. Fash, Alexandre Tokovinine, and Barbara W. Fash -- Watery places and urban foundations depicted in Maya art and architecture / Barbara W. Fash and William L. Fash -- Self identity and cosmology at El Tajín, Veracruz / Rex Koontz -- Four hundred years of settlement and cultural continuity in epiclassic and early postclassic Tula / Alba Guadalupe Mastache, Dan Healan, and Robert H. Cobean -- The face of the Itzas / William M. Ringle and George J. Bey III -- The Mexica in Tula and Tula in Mexico-Tenochtitlan / Leonardo López Luján and Alfredo López Austin -- Configuration of the sacred precinct of Mexico-Tenochtitlan / Eduardo Matos Moctezuma -- Summary: Cities as cosmological art/The art of politics / Davíd Carrasco.
ISBN:
0884023443
9780884023449
OCLC:
(OCoLC)277086168
LCCN:
2008051088
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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