Main entry:

Kubler, George, 1912-1996, author.

Title & Author:

The art and architecture of ancient America : the Mexican, Maya, and Andean peoples / George Kubler.

Edition:

Second edition

Publication:

Harmondsworth [England] ; Baltimore : Penguin, 1975.
©1975

Description:

xliii, 420 pages, 97 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 27 cm.

Series:

The Pelican history of art

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 385-402) and index.
Introduction -- The lands and the peoples -- Mesoamerica -- the Andean environment -- The chronological problem -- Anthropology and American antiquity -- Diffusion or polygenesis? -- The history of art -- The place of the artist -- The Mexican civilizations -- The early valley of Mexico -- Formative: 3000-500 B.C. -- Teotihuacán: 100 B.C.-A.D. 750 -- Xochicalco -- The valley of Mexico after A.D. 800 -- The Toltec revolution -- The Chichimec interlude -- The Aztec confederacy -- The Gulf Coast -- The Olmec style -- The Central Coast -- The Huasteca -- Southern Mexico -- The classic Zapotec style -- The Mixtecs -- Western Mexico -- The stone-workers of Guerrero -- The potters of Colima, Jalisco, and Nayarit -- Michoacán -- The northern plateaus -- The Maya and their neighbours -- The Maya tradition: architecture -- Classic Maya -- Classic architecture -- The Petén -- The river cities -- The Dry Forest: Río Bec -- The well country: los chenes -- The hill country: the Puuc -- The Maya tradition: sculpture and painting -- Sculpture -- Commemorative monuments and figural reliefs -- jade -- pottery -- Architectural decoration -- Painting -- Pottery painting -- From the Toltec Maya to the Spaniards -- Architecture -- Chichén Itza -- The East Coast -- The problem of Tula -- Sculpture -- Full-round figures -- processional reliefs -- Painting -- Murals -- manuscripts -- The neighbours of the Maya -- The Guatemalan highlands -- Eastern Central America -- The Ulúa 'marbles' -- Costa Rican mainland sculpture -- The Pacific Coast -- The Andean civilizations -- The northern Andes: Colombia and Ecuador -- Northern South America -- The Pacific equatorial coast -- The central Andes: early Northern Peru -- Pre-Chavín remains in the North -- Early Ancash Art -- Cerro Sechín -- Moxeke -- Punkurí -- Chavín -- Later Ancash art -- The callejón de Huaylas -- The upper north: Mohica and Chimu -- Pre-Mochica styles -- The classic Mochica peoples -- The end of Mochica art -- The Lambayeque dynasty -- The Chimu period -- The highland basins -- Central Peru -- From Lima north -- South of Lima -- The South Coast valleys -- Paracas and Nazca -- The end of Nazca art -- The middle horizon (c. 600-1000) -- The south highlands -- The early Altiplano -- Tiahuanaco -- The Mantaro Basin -- The Valley of Cuzco -- Inca architecutre -- Sculpture and painting.

Summary:

"This book - now revised and brought up to date throughout - deals with the development of the principal styles of ancient American architecture, sculpture, and painting until the end of the Aztec and Inca empires in the sixteenth century. It tries to explain works of art as such, rather than dwelling upon those ideas about civilization which art is usually made to illustrate in books of a more archaeological character. The arrangement is by geographical regions in three main divisions: Mexico, Central America, and western South America. Architecture, sculpture, and painting occupy most of the volume. Town planning, pottery, textiles, and jewellery are among many topics discussed under the guiding divisions of region and period." -book jacket.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

0140560211
9780140560213

Subject:

Indian art.
Indian architecture.
Indians Antiquities.
Art des Peuples autochtones.
Architecture des Peuples autochtones.
Peuples autochtones Antiquités.
Art précolombien.
Architecture précolombienne.
Antiquities
Architektur
Kunst
Latin America Antiquities.
Amérique latine Antiquités.
Latin America
Altamerika
Amerika
Südamerika

Added entries:

Pelican history of art.

Holdings:

Location: Library study room 111777
Call No.: ID E59.A7 REF; ID:86-B2385
Status: Available