Exile Space
Encountering Ancient and Modern America in Memoir with Essay and Fiction
Exile Space: Encountering Ancient and Modern America in Memoir with Essay and Fiction has three main sections:1. Multiple Horizons: Tales From the Life of a Refugee is the often humorous account of a Hungarian refugee trying to assimilate into American life and in the process discovering the Ancient American cultures of the Aztec, Maya, and Inca.2. Stone Age Civilization in the New World is a controversial memoir about Ancient America as it compares to Europe, as an overview written in the freedom of retirement. It is written as advice to the BBC, which had recently interviewed her for a program called Civilizations.3. The Maya Vase is a n…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-882190-82-9
- EAN: 9781882190829
- Produktnummer: 28980396
- Verlag: Polar Bear & Company
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Seitenangabe: 366 S.
- Masse: H21.6 cm x B14.0 cm x D2.1 cm 488 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 488
Über den Autor
Esther Pasztory is Lisa and Bernard Selz Professor emerita of pre-Columbian Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University. She has published extensively in the field of pre-Columbian art, including the first art historical manuscripts on Teotihuacán and the Aztecs. Born in Hungary, she emigrated to the United States in 1956, after the anti-Communist revolution. She attended Vassar College and Barnard Collage where she received a BA in art history. With her dissertation at Columbia, entitled The Murals of Tepantitla, Teotihuacán, she received her PhD in 1971. Esther now lives in San Francisco, California.
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