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Ancient Maya art at Dumbarton Oaks / Joanne Pillsbury, Miriam Doutriaux, Reiko Ishihara-Brito, and Alexandre Tokovinine, editors ; with additional contributions by Barbara Arroyo ... [et al.].

Title
Ancient Maya art at Dumbarton Oaks / Joanne Pillsbury, Miriam Doutriaux, Reiko Ishihara-Brito, and Alexandre Tokovinine, editors ; with additional contributions by Barbara Arroyo ... [et al.].
Author
Dumbarton Oaks
Publication
Washington, D.C. : Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, c2012.

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Additional Authors
  • Pillsbury, Joanne
  • Doutriaux, Miriam
  • Ishihara, Reiko
  • Tokovinine, Alexandre
  • Arroyo, Bárbara
Description
xxvii, 556 p. : ill. (some col.), maps; 32 cm.
Summary
This introduction to Maya art is based on study of one of the most important collections in the United States, assembled by Robert Woods Bliss between 1935 and 1962. The catalogue, written by leading Maya scholars, contains detailed analyses of specific works of art along with thematic essays situating them within the context of Maya culture.
Series Statement
Pre-Columbian art at Dumbarton Oaks ; no. 4
Uniform Title
Pre-Columbian art at Dumbarton Oaks no. 4.
Subject
  • Robert Woods Bliss Collection of Pre-Columbian Art > Catalogs
  • Dumbarton Oaks > Catalogs
  • Maya art
  • Maya art > Catalogs
Genre/Form
Catalogs
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Incidents of travel : Robert Woods Bliss and the creation of the Maya collection at Dumbarton Oaks / Joanne Pillsbury and Miriam Doutriaux -- Classic Maya culture, history, and myth / Oswaldo Chinchilla Mazariegos -- Catalogue entries for monuments -- The best of all things : beauty, materials, and society among the classic Maya / Stephen D. Houston -- Catalogue entries for stone vessels -- From stone to jewel : jade in ancient Maya religion and rulership / Karl A. Taube and Reiko Ishihara-Brito -- Catalogue entries for jade objects -- Flint effigy eccentrics / John E. Clark, Fred W. Nelson, and Gene L. Titmus -- Catalogue entries for flint effigy eccentrics -- Classic Maya painted ceramics : artisans, workshops, and distribution / Dorie Reents-Budet and Ronald L. Bishop -- Catalogue entries for ceramic vessels -- Jaina-style figurines / Megan E. O'Neil -- Catalogue entries for jaina-style figurines -- Pre-columbian Maya shell objects : an analysis of manufacturing techniques / Adrian Velazquez Castro -- Catalogue entries for shell and organic objects.
ISBN
9780884023753 (hardcover : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2011025025
OCLC
  • 731372976
  • SCSB-12030917
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library