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Title Mexico : splendors of thirty centuries / introduction by Octavio Paz ; [translations by Edith Grossman and others].

Imprint New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art ; Boston : Little, Brown, ©1990.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe Kansas Collection J Schick  709.72 M574 1990    ---  Lib Use Only
Description xv, 712 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 31 cm
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Note "Issued in conjunction with the exhibition ... held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 10, 1990-January 13, 1991; the San Antonio Museum of Art, April 6-August 4, 1991; and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, October 6-December 29, 1991."
"A Bulfinch Press book."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 699-700) and index.
Contents Will for form / Octavio Paz -- Ancient Mexican art / Beatriz de la Fuente -- The Olmec at La Venta / Richard A. Diehl -- Izapa / Gareth W. Lowe -- The metropolis of Teotihuacán / Rubén Cabrera Castro -- Monte Alban / Marcus Winter -- The Maya of lowland Palenque / Roberto García Moll -- El Tajín / S. Jeffrey K. Wilkerson -- Chichén Itzá and prosperity in Yucatán / Peter J. Schmidt -- Imperial Tenochtitlan / Eduardo Matos Moctezuma -- The progress of art in New Spain / Jorge Alberto Manrique -- The mission / Donna Pierce. Painted manuscripts / Elizabeth Hill Boone -- Mexican architecture and sculpture in Renaissance modes / Johanna Hecht -- Mexican painting of the Renaissance and counter-Reformation / Marcus Burke -- Creole identity and the transmutation of European forms / Joahnna Hecht -- A Mexican artistic consciousness / Marcus Burke -- The liberation of viceregal architecture and design / Johanna Hecht -- Painting: the eighteenth-century Mexican school / Marcus Burke -- Decorative arts and furniture / Donna Pierce -- Ceramics / Donna Pierce -- The Academy, neoclassicism, and independence / Marcus Burke.
Summary Precolumbian art -- Viceregal art -- Nineteenth century art -- Twentieth century art.
Subject Art, Mexican -- Exhibitions.
Indian art -- Mexico -- Exhibitions.
Art, Mexican. (OCoLC)fst00816601
Indian art. (OCoLC)fst00969029
Mexico. (OCoLC)fst01211700
Genre/Form Exhibition catalogs. (OCoLC)fst01424028
Exhibition catalogs.
Added Author Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
San Antonio Museum of Art.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
ISBN 0870995952
9780870995958
0870995960 (pbk.)
9780870995965 (pbk.)
0821217976 (Bulfinch Press)
9780821217979 (Bulfinch Press)

 
    
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