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The art of urbanism : how Mesoamerican kingdoms represented themselves in architecture and imagery

Title: The art of urbanism : how Mesoamerican kingdoms represented themselves in architecture and imagery / William L. Fash and Leonardo López Luján, editors.
Author: Pre-Columbian Symposium, Dumbarton Oaks (2005 : Museo del Templo Mayor, Mexico City, Mexico)
Publication: Washington, D.C. : Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection ; [Cambridge, Mass.] : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2009.

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Description

viii, 480 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.); 27 cm.

Series Statement

Dumbarton Oaks Pre-Columbian symposia and colloquia

Uniform Title

Dumbarton Oaks Pre-Columbian symposia and colloquia.

Subject

Genre/Form

Conference proceedings.
History.

Note

Contains the results of the Dumbarton Oaks 2005 Pre-Columbian Symposium held at the Museo del Templo Mayor in Mexico City.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Early Olmec architecture and imagery / Ann Cyphers and Anna Di Castro -- People of the Cerro : landscape, settlement, and art at middle formative period Chalcatzingo / David C. Grove and Susan D. Gillespie -- How Monte Albán represented itself / Joyce Marcus -- Centering the kingdom, centering the king : Maya creation and legitimation at San Bartolo / William A. Saturno -- Cholula : art and architecture of an archetypal city / Gabriela Uruñuela y Ladrón de Guevara, Patricia Plunket Nagoda, and Amparo Robles Salmerón -- A mountain god in Teotihuacan art / Zoltán Paulinyi -- The House of New Fire at Teotihuacan and its legacy in Mesoamerica / William L. Fash, Alexandre Tokovinine, and Barbara W. Fash -- Watery places and urban foundations depicted in Maya art and architecture / Barbara W. Fash -- Social identity and cosmology at El Tajín / Rex Koontz -- Four hundred years of settlement and cultural continuity in epiclassic and early postclassic Tula / Alba Guadalupe Mastache, Dan M. Healan, and Robert H. Cobean -- The face of the Itzas / William M. Ringle and George J. Bey III -- The Mexica in Tula and Tula in Mexico-Tenochtitlan / Leonardo López Luján and Alfredo López Austin -- Configuration of the sacred precinct of Mexico-Tenochtitlan / Eduardo Matos Moctezuma -- Summary: Cities as cosmological art : the art of politics / Davíd Carrasco.

Call Number

JFF 15-1008

ISBN

9780884023449 (hbk.)
0884023443 (hbk.)

LCCN

2008051088

OCLC

277086168

Conference

Pre-Columbian Symposium, Dumbarton Oaks (2005 : Museo del Templo Mayor, Mexico City, Mexico)

Title

The art of urbanism : how Mesoamerican kingdoms represented themselves in architecture and imagery / William L. Fash and Leonardo López Luján, editors.

Imprint

Washington, D.C. : Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection ; [Cambridge, Mass.] : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2009.

Series

Dumbarton Oaks Pre-Columbian symposia and colloquia

Dumbarton Oaks Pre-Columbian symposia and colloquia.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Fash, William Leonard.

López Luján, Leonardo.

Dumbarton Oaks.

Research Call Number

JFF 15-1008

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