List of illustrations -- Preface -- 1. Esther and Columbia in 1966 : the early years of pre-Columbian art history in U.S. academe / Cecelia F. Klein -- 2. Aesthetics of a line, entangled in a network : a tribute to Esther Pasztory's vision of Andean art / Gary Urton -- 3. Humboldt and the Inca ruin of Cañar / Georgia de Havenon -- 4. From a republic of letters to an empire of images : archaeological illustration and the Andes, 1850-1890 / Joanne Pillsbury -- 5. Life after death in Teotihuacan : the Moon Plaza's monoliths in colonial and modern Mexico / Leonardo López Luján -- 6. National icons and political interests : memories of Teotihuacan : city of the gods / Kathleen Berrin -- 7. Figures in action : contextualizing the butterfly personage at Teotihuacan, Mexico / Cynthia Conides -- 8. An "artistic discovery" of antiquity : Alfonso Caso, the archaeologist as curator at the New York World's Fair and MoMA's Twenty centuries of Mexican art, 1939-1940 / Ellen Hoobler -- 9. Objects and identities : ten important artifacts in the history of the ancient arts of Honduras / Jennifer von Schwerin with Franziska Fecher -- 10. Myth, ritual, history, and the built environment : Maya radial temples and ballcourts from the preclassic to postclassic periods / Jeff Karl Kowalski -- 11. Seasonal images in the ancient art of central Mexico / Susan Milbrath -- 12. Decolonizing Aztec picture-writing / Janice Lynn Robertson -- 13. The axochiatl pattern : Aztec science, legitimacy, and cross-dressing / Lois Martin -- 14. The goldsmith emerges : Aztec gold ornaments in the provinces / Timothy B. King -- 15. Atlatls and the metaphysics of violence in central Mexico / Andrew Finegold -- Afterword: From primitivism to multiple modernities and beyond / Esther Pasztory.
Summary:
"A contributed volume featuring studies on Latin American art and archaeology by former students and current colleagues of Esther Pasztory, an influential art historian who is now professor emerita at Columbia University"--Provided by publisher.
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