Ancient West Mexico : art and archaeology of the unknown past
by Townsend, Richard F. (ed.)
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- ISBN 10
- 0500050929
- ISBN 13
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New York ; Chicago : Thames and Hudson ; Art Institute of Chicago, 1998. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in a very good, slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 308 pages : 415 illustrations (some color), maps. Notes: This book was published in conjunction with the exhibition 'Ancient West Mexico: Art of the Unknown Past,' organized by the Art Institute of Chicago and presented in the museum's Regenstein Hall from September 5 to November 22, 1998. The exhibition was also presented at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art from December 20 to March 29, 1999. Includes bibliographical references. Contents: The Teuchitlan tradition : rise of a statelike society / Phil C. Weigand, Christopher S. Beekman -- Excavating the tomb at Huitzilapa / Lorenza Lpez Mestas Camberos, Jorge Ramos de la Vega -- Mortuary practices in the shaft-tomb region / Robert B. Pickering, Maria Teresa Cabrero -- Food for the dead : the West Mexican art of feasting / Kristi Butterwick -- Before gods, before kings / Richard F. Townsend -- Sacred sun centers / Christopher L. Witmore -- The West Mexican ballgame / Jane Stevenson Day -- Shamanistic symbolism, transformation, and deities in West Mexican funerary art / Peter T. Furst -- The iconography of rulership in ancient West Mexico / Mark Miller Graham -- Natural resources and human settlements in ancient West Mexico / Otto Schndube -- The Sayula Basin : ancient settlements and resources / Francisco Valdez -- They came to trade exquisite things : ancient West Mexican-Ecuadorian contacts / Patricia Rieff Anawalt -- The evolution of complex societies in West Mexico : a comparative perspective / Joseph B. Mountjoy -- West Mexican art and modernist artists / Barbara Braun. Subjects: Art Institute of Chicago; Exhibitions; Art, Ancient Mexico; Indian art Mexico; Indians of Mexico Antiquities; Art, Ancient; Sculpture, Ancient Mexico; Indigenous art.
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- MW Books Ltd. (IE)
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- Title
- Ancient West Mexico : art and archaeology of the unknown past
- Author
- Townsend, Richard F. (ed.)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st edition
- ISBN 10
- 0500050929
- ISBN 13
- 9780500050927
- Publisher
- New York ; Chicago : Thames and Hudson ; Art Institute of Chicago
- Place of Publication
- United Kingdom
- Date Published
- 1998
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