Mexico: splendors of thirty centuries. by [Mexico] Metropolitan Museum of Art; PAZ, Octavio (Intro.) - 1990

New York & Boston:: Metropolitan Museum of Art; Little, Brown, 1990., 1990. Thick 4to. xv, 712 pp. 365 cataloged items illustrated. Printed wrappers. Burndy bookplate. Fine. ISBN: 0870995952 Exhibition catalogue. 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. 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 Teotihuacan / Ruben Cabrera Castro -- Monte Alban / Marcus Winter -- The Maya of lowland Palenque / Roberto Garcia Moll -- El Tajin / S. Jeffrey K. Wilkerson -- Chichen Itza and prosperity in Yucatan / 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. Extra postage will apply.