Main entry:

Castedo, Leopoldo, author.

Title & Author:

A history of Latin American art and architecture from pre-Columbian times to the present / Leopoldo Castedo : translated and edited by Phyllis Freeman.

Publication:

London : Pall Mall Press, 1969.

Description:

320 pages : illustrations (black and white, and color), maps, portraits ; 22 cm

Series:

Praeger world of art.

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-299).
Pt. I. In the beginning -- 1. Constraints and variants -- 2. The cultures of Western and Central Mexico and the Gulf Coast -- The western cultures -- Teotihuacán -- The Toltecs -- Monte Albán -- The Gulf cultures -- The Mixtec-Puebla culture -- The Aztecs -- 3. The Maya -- Tikal, Copán, Palenque -- The Río Bec, Chenes, and Puuc styles -- Maya-Toltec art -- Bonampak -- 4. The intermediate cultures and the jungle peoples -- Colombian goldwork -- The San Agustín culture -- Pre-Hispanic Ecuador, Amazonia, and Venezuela -- 5. The pre-Inca cultures -- The Chavín horizon -- The Paracas culture -- The Mochica culture -- Nazca art -- The Tiahuanaco horizon -- The Chimú and Chancay cultures -- The Incas -- Machu Picchu -- pt. II. The encounter with Europe -- 7. Constants and variants -- 8. American plateresque and the late renaissance -- Early architecture -- The great cathedrals -- Sculpture and painting -- 9. The baroque in Mexico -- Architecture -- Sculpture and painting -- 10. The baroque in Central America and the Caribbean -- Central America -- Cuba -- Venezuela and Colombia -- Military architecture -- Popular imagery -- 11. The baroque in Quito and the viceroyalty of New Granada -- Architecture -- Sculpture and painting -- 12. Peruvian baroque and the colonial period in Argentina and Chile -- Architecture in Cuzco -- Architecture in Arequipa -- Sculpture and painting -- Chile -- Argentina -- 13. Brazilian baroque -- Architecture -- Sculpture and painting -- Aleijadinho -- pt. III. The modern synthesis -- 14. Constraints and variants -- 15. The nineteenth century: from neoclassicism to impressionism -- Neoclassical architecture -- Romantic painting and sculpture -- Impressionism -- 16. "Primitive" painting -- 17. The twentieth century: the coming of age -- Mexican muralism -- Indigenism: a national or a pseudo-national art? -- 18. After muralism -- Painting in Mexico -- Painting in Central America and the Caribbean -- Painting in the south -- Totemic sculpture -- 19. The new architecture -- Mexico -- Central America and the Caribbean -- Venezuela -- Peru and Chile -- The Río de la Plata region -- Brazil.

ISBN:

0269025243
9780269025242

Subject:

Lateinamerika
Art, Latin American.
Architecture Latin America History.
Art latino-américain.
Architecture Amérique latine Histoire.
Architecture.
Architektur
Geschichte
Kunst
Arte Incomum.
Latin America.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Praeger world of art.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 100800
Call No.: W5575; ID:85-B15617
Status: Available