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Maya color : the painted villages of Mesoamerica

Title
Maya color : the painted villages of Mesoamerica / photographs by Jeffrey Becom ; text by Jeffrey Becom and Sally Jean Aberg.
Author
Becom, Jeffrey
Publication
  • New York : Abbeville Press Publishers, [1997]
  • ©1997

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Additional Authors
Aberg, Sally Jean
Description
180 pages : color illustrations, color map; 26 cm
Summary
"This book is a photographic voyage into the living world of the Maya. The symbolic ways that the Maya of Mexico and Central America paint their homes, places of worship, and dwellings for their dead are the focus of this volume."--Amazon.
Subject
  • Mayas > Dwellings
  • Maya painting
  • Church buildings > Central America
  • Church buildings > Mexico
  • Symbolism of colors > Central America
  • Symbolism of colors > Mexico
  • Church buildings
  • Symbolism of colors
  • Central America
  • Mexico
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 174-177) and index.
Contents
Through the door of color : map of the Maya world -- Beginnings : the dawn of color -- Painted houses : burning bright as candles -- Painted churches : since before the moon appeared -- Painted cemeteries : so that the souls may sing -- Change : the fragile world of Maya color.
ISBN
  • 0789202158
  • 9780789202154
LCCN
97008347
OCLC
  • ocm36629900
  • 36629900
  • SCSB-351305
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library