The Maya of modernism : art, architecture, and film / Jesse Lerner.

Main entry:

Lerner, Jesse.

Title & Author:

The Maya of modernism : art, architecture, and film / Jesse Lerner.

Publication:

Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2011.

Description:

x, 214 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Includes filmography.
The vegetative Maya -- Maya modernism without the Maya -- Progressing toward a Maya modernity -- The aoristic Maya -- The Maya absolute -- Conclusions: Leaving the ruins of Maya modernism.

Summary:

This study examines the ways artists, architects, filmmakers, photographers, and other producers of visual culture in Mexico, the United States, Europe, and beyond have mined Mayan history and imagery. Beginning in the mid-nineteenth century, with the first mechanically reproduced and mass distributed images of the Mayan ruins, and ending with recent works that address this history of representation, the author argues that Maya modernism is the product of an ongoing pan-American modernism characterized by a continuing series of reinterpretations, collaborations, and exchanges in which Yucatecans, Mexicans and foreigners, mestizos, Mayas, and others all participate and are free to endorse, misunderstand, reinterpret, or reject each other's ideas.

ISBN:

9780826349811 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0826349811 (cloth ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Maya art.
Maya architecture.
Mayas in popular culture.
Mayas Antiquities.
Art maya.
Architecture maya.
Mayas Antiquités.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 282354
Call No.: BIB 219774
Status: Available

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