Mary Ellen Miller

The Art of Mesoamerica

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This expanded and fully revised fifth edition of Mary Ellen Miller's classic book features a completely new chapter on Teotihuacan discussing the rulership and ethnicity of that powerful yet enigmatic city. Exciting new discoveries and ongoing research help clarify the links between the Olmecs and the Maya, while newly revealed paintings at Calakmul show Maya artists to have been both masters of convention and ready innovators. Vital new finds at the heart of the Aztec capital are still astounding students of Mexico, even as the meaning of works from the Early Colonial period continue to reveal the complexity of the first decades under Spanis… Mehr

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ISBN: 978-0-500-20414-6
EAN: 9780500204146
Produktnummer: 16326740
Verlag: Thames & Hudson
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
Seitenangabe: 288 S.
Masse: H20.8 cm x B14.9 cm x D2.2 cm 611 g
Auflage: 5. A.
Gewicht: 611

Über den Autor

Mary Ellen Miller is an American art historian and Dean of Yale College. In 2008, she was appointed as Sterling Professor at Yale. She has served as the Chair of the History of Art, Latin American Studies, and Archaeological Studies Departments at Yale, as well as Director of Undergraduate Studies of the History of Art. She has written many articles on Mesoamerican art, and her book with Linda Schele, The Blood of Kings, is considered a landmark in Maya studies. She is also the author, with Karl Taube, of The Gods and Symbols of Ancient Mexico and the Maya.