Research Catalog

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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Additional Authors

• Fash, William Leonard.
• López Luján, Leonardo.
• López Luján, Leonardo.
• Dumbarton Oaks.

Description

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

Summary

The Art of Urbanism explores how the royal courts of powerful Mesoamerican centers represented their kingdoms in architectural, iconographic, and cosmological terms. Through an investigation of the ecological contexts and environmental opportunities of urban centers, the contributors consider how ancient Mesoamerican cities defined themselves and reflected upon their physicalâe"and metaphysicalâe"place via their built environment. Themes in the volume include the ways in which a kingdomâe(tm)s public monuments were fashioned to reflect geographic space, patron gods, and mythology, and how the Olmec, Maya, Mexica, Zapotecs, and others sought to center their world through architectural monuments and public art. This collection of papers addresses how communities leveraged their environment and built upon their cultural and historical roots as well as the ways that the performance of calendrical rituals and other public events tied individuals and communities to both urban centers and hinterlands. Twenty-three scholars from archaeology, anthropology, art history, and religious studies contribute new data and new perspectives to the understanding of ancient Mesoamericansâe(tm) own view of their spectacular urban and ritual centers--Publisher's description.

Series Statement

Dumbarton Oaks Pre-Columbian symposia and colloquia

Uniform Title

Dumbarton Oaks Pre-Columbian symposia and colloquia.

Alternative Title

How Mesoamerican kingdoms represented themselves in architecture and imagery

Subject

• Indians of Central America > Antiquities > Congresses
• Indians of Mexico > Antiquities > Congresses
• Indian art > Central America > Congresses
• Indian art > Mexico > Congresses
• Indian architecture > Central America > Congresses
• Indian architecture > Mexico > Congresses
• City and town life > Central America > History > Congresses
• City and town life > Mexico > History > Congresses
• Urban archaeology > Central America > Congresses
• Urban archaeology > Mexico > Congresses
• Excavations (Archaeology) > Central America > Congresses
• Excavations (Archaeology) > Mexico > Congresses
• Central America > Antiquities > Congresses
• Mexico > Antiquities > Congresses

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and 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.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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.

ISBN

• 9780884023449 (hbk.)
• 0884023443 (hbk.)
• 9780884023784 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2008051088

OCLC

• 277086168
• SCSB-12018738

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library