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xxii, 282 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 26 cm |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-272) and index. |
| Summary |
This book is the first comprehensive study and reinterpretation of the unique arts of Teotihuacan, including architecture, sculpture, mural painting, and ceramics. Comparing the arts of Teotihuacan - not previously judged "artistic"--With those of other ancient civilizations, Esther Pasztory demonstrates how they created and reflected the community's ideals. Pasztory argues that, unlike the art of other Mesoamerican groups, the art of Teotihuacan refrains from glorifying rulers because its people wished to create the image of an integrated community. Instead their art glorifies nature and the supernatural and emphasizes egalitarian rather than aristocratic values. Pasztory identifies a great goddess who presided over this construction of civic harmony. Teotihuacan: An Experiment in Living is a portrait of a culture that made no portraits, a reinterpretation of a culture that left no texts interpreting itself. Nineteen color and seventy-seven black-and-white illustrations accompany the text. |
| Contents |
Foreword / Enrique Florescano -- I. Personal Discovery -- II. The Paradise of Tlaloc: The Aztec Hypothesis -- III. The New Archaeology and the State -- IV. The View from the Apartment Compound -- V. Mixed Messages: The Challenge of Interpretation -- VI. The Pyramid of the Sun and the Goddess -- VII. The Pyramid of the Moon and the Storm God -- VIII. The Ciudadela and Rulership -- IX. Minimalist Aesthetics: Plain and Simple Things -- X. Assemblage: Organization Made Explicit -- XI. The Net-Jaguar and Other Two-Dimensional Puzzles -- XII. The Human Body in Parts: Hearts and Footprints -- XIII. Divine Intervention -- XIV. The Human Element -- XV. An Experiment in Living. |
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Teotihuacán Site (San Juan Teotihuacán, Mexico)
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Indian art -- Mexico -- San Juan Teotihuacán.
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Indian art. (OCoLC)fst00969029
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Mexico -- San Juan Teotihuacán.
(OCoLC)fst01223239
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Mexico -- San Juan Teotihuacán -- Teotihuacán Site.
(OCoLC)fst01316215
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Kultur (DE-588)4125698-0
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Teotihuacán (DE-588)4314185-7
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Cultuurgeschiedenis.
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Beeldende kunsten.
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Indian art -- Mexico -- Teotihuacan Site (San Juan Teotihuacan).
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Ethnoarchaeology -- Mexico -- Teotihuacan Site (San Juan Teotihuacan).
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Teotihu`acn Site (San Juan Teotihu`acn, Mexico)
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Teotihuacán.
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Aufsatzsammlung
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| ISBN |
080612847X (alk. paper) |
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9780806128474 (alk. paper) |
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