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Title:

The Ancient Americas : Art from sacred landscapes / Richard F. Townsend, general editor ; with essays by Anthony F. Aveni ... [et al.].

Publisher:

Prestel Verlag,
Prestel Verlag,

Copyright Date:

1992

Description:

397 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 31 cm.

Subject:

Indians--Antiquities
Indians--Art.
America--Antiquities.

Other Authors:

Townsend, Richard F.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 383-392).

Contents:

Principles and themes -- Introduction: landscape and symbol / Richard F. Townsend -- Pre-Columbian images of time / Anthony F. Aveni -- The persistence of Maya tradition in Zinacantan / Evon Z. Vogt -- Mankind and the earth in America and Europe / Vincent Scully -- The Southwest -- Mimbres art: form and imagery / J.J. Brody -- The architecture of the ancient Southwest / Stephen H. Lekson -- Mesoamerica -- Order and nature in Olmec art / Beatriz de la Fuente -- The natural world as civic metaphor at Teotihuacan / Esther Pasztory -- The beginnings of preclassic Maya art and architecture / Juan Antonio Valdes -- The image of people and nature in classic Maya art and architecture / Mary Ellen Miller -- The renewal of nature at the temple of Tlaloc / Richard F. Townsend -- The Aztec main pyramid: ritual architecture at Tenochtitlan / Eduardo Matos Moctezuma -- Pictorial codices of ancient Mexico / Elizabeth Hill Boone -- Central America and the northern Andes -- Cosmovision of the chiefdoms of the Isthmus of Panama / Mary W. Helms -- Symbols, ideology, and the expression of power in La Tolita, Ecuador / Francisco Valdez -- The Tairona of ancient Colombia / Tom Zuidema -- Andean civilization / The sacred center of Chavin de Huantar / Richard L. Burger -- Paracas Necropolis textiles: symbolic visions of coastal Peru / Anne Paul -- Interpreting the Nazca lines / Johan Reinhard -- The world of Moche / Elizabeth P. Benson -- Tiwanaku: the city at the center / Alan Kolata, Carlos Ponce Sangines -- Camelids and chaos in Huari and Tiwanaku textiles / Rebecca Stone-Miller -- Inca architecture and the sacred landscape / Susan A. Niles -- Ancestral time and sacred space in Inca state ritual / Colin McEwan, Maarten Van de Guchte.

ISBN:

9780865591042
0865591040

OCLC:

(OCoLC)26095624

LCCN:

92021869

Locations:

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

URAX314 -- Clarke University - Nicholas J. Schrup Library (Dubuque)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella)

UTAX115 -- Buena Vista University Library (Storm Lake)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)