Title & Author:

The Ancient Americas : art from sacred landscapes / Richard F. Townsend, general editor ; with essays by Anthony F. Aveni [and others].

Publication:

Description:

397 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 30 cm

Notes:
Published in conjunction with the exhibition organized by the Art Institute of Chicago and shown at the Art Institute, Oct. 10, 1992-Jan. 3, 1993; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Feb. 4-Apr. 18, 1993; and the Los Anglees County Museum of Art, June 6-Aug. 15, 1993.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-392).
Principles and themes -- Introduction: Landscape and symbol / Richard F. Townsend -- Pre-Columbian images of time / Anthony F. Aveni -- The persistence of Maya tradition in Zinacantan / Evon Z. Vogt -- Mankind and the earth in America and Europe / Vincent Scully -- The Southwest -- Mimbres art: form and imagery / J.J. Brody -- The architecture of the ancient Southwest / Stephen H. Lekson -- Mesoamerica -- Order and nature in Olmec art / Beatriz de la Fuente -- The natural world as civic metaphor at Teotihuacan / Esther Pasztory -- The beginnings of preclassic Maya art and architecture / Juan Antonio Valdes -- The image of people and nature in classic Maya art and architecture / Mary Ellen Miller -- The renewal of nature at the temple of Tlaloc / Richard F. Townsend -- The Aztec main pyramid: ritual architecture at Tenochtitlan / Eduardo Matos Moctezuma -- Pictorial codices of ancient Mexico / Elizabeth Hill Boone -- Central America and the northern Andes -- Cosmovision of the chiefdoms of the Isthmus of Panama / Mary W. Helms -- Symbols, ideology, and the expression of power in La Tolita, Ecuador / Francisco Valdez -- The Tairona of ancient Colombia / Tom Zuidema -- Andean civilization / The sacred center of Chavin de Huantar / Richard L. Burger -- Paracas Necropolis textiles: symbolic visions of coastal Peru / Anne Paul -- Interpreting the Nazca lines / Johan Reinhard -- The world of Moche / Elizabeth P. Benson -- Tiwanaku: the city at the center / Alan Kolata, Carlos Ponce Sangines -- Camelids and chaos in Huari and Tiwanaku textiles / Rebecca Stone-Miller -- Inca architecture and the sacred landscape / Susan A. Niles -- Ancestral time and sacred space in Inca state ritual / Colin McEwan, Maarten Van de Guchte.
Also issued online.

Summary:

A lavishly illustrated catalog of a traveling exhibition marking the Columbus quincentennial explores the common threads in fourteen pre-Columbian cultures, from the Olmec, Maya and Aztec of Mexico and Guatemala through the Chavin culture (900-200 B.C.) of the Andes to the Moche, Chimu and the Inca empire, accompanied by essays from 26 scholars examining sacred geographies, myths and ancient beliefs as they are transmitted through visual arts and architecture.

ISBN:

0865591040 (paper)
9780865591042 (paper)
3791311883 (hardcover)
9783791311883 (hardcover)

Subject:

Indian art Exhibitions.
Indians Antiquities Exhibitions.
Indigenous art North America Exhibitions.
Indigenous art Central America Exhibitions.
Indigenous art South America Exhibitions.
Art autochtone Amérique du Nord Expositions.
Art autochtone Amérique centrale Expositions.
Art autochtone Amérique du Sud Expositions.
Art précolumbien Expositions.
Peuples autochtones Antiquités Expositions.
Art précolombien Expositions.
Indigenous art
Antiquities
Indian art
Indians Antiquities
Kunst
Ausstellung
Heilige plaatsen.
Beeldende kunsten.
America Antiquities Exhibitions.
America Antiquities.
Amérique Antiquités Expositions.
South America
North America
Central America
America
Altamerika
Visual arts

Form/genre:

Ausstellung Chicago (Ill.) 1992.
Exhibition publications.
exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Townsend, Richard F., editor.
Aveni, Anthony F., writer of added text.
Art Institute of Chicago, issuing body, host institution.
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, host institution.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, host institution.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 91524
Call No.: ID:93-B463
Status: Available