Catalog of an exhibition held at the Jack Olson Gallery, School of Art, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL, Aug. 31-Sept. 25, 2009 and at Teatro Peon Contreras, Mérida, Yucatán, Sept.-Oct., 2010. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Foreword / Alfredo Barrera Rubio -- Preface / Jeff Karl Kowalski, with Mary Katherine Scott -- Imaging the Maya : carvings, carvers, contexts, and messages / Mary Katherine Scott and Jeff Karl Kowalski -- Other carvings in the exhibition / Jeff Karl Kowalski and Quetzil Castañeda -- Native American artistic creativity and commodity culture / Janet Catherine Berlo -- The image of Africa and its relationship to commerce / Christopher B. Steiner -- Aesthetics and ambivalence of Maya modernity : the ethnography of Maya art / Quetzil Castañeda -- "Thrice built" : Uxmal and constructions of Maya identity / Jeff Karl Kowalski -- Representing the Maya : when is it appropriate to call "appropriations" art? / Mary Katherine Scott -- Appendix : prólogo y síntesis de capitulo 1 : traducción español / traduccion por Mary Katherine Scott con Giuliana Borea -- Bibliography -- Photo credits -- Index.
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