Reading Maya Art A Hieroglyphic Guide to Ancient Maya Painting and Sculpture

Name: Reading Maya Art A Hieroglyphic Guide to Ancient Maya Painting and Sculpture
Price: 53.95 USD
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ISBN: 9780500051689

ISBN-10: 0500051682

ISBN-13: 9780500051689

Edition: 2011

Authors: Andrea Stone, Marc Zender

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The art of the ancient Maya may be considered their most singular cultural achievement. Yet despite a surge of popular interest in these remarkable people, few are fully aware of the richness of their artistic legacy, unique in all of pre-Columbian America. Maya art is a rare combination of linear elegance and naturalism blended with dazzling symbolic complexity. Decorated objects, ranging from painted vases and carved jade and shell ornaments to towering stone monuments and building facades, bear the traces of a symbol system that, while fascinating, can make an understanding of these images elusive to the uninitiated. Presented here for the first time is a compendium of one hundred…

Book details

List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Publication date: 4/1/2011
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 248
Size: 7.50" wide x 9.40" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 2.222
Language: English

Andrea Stone is Professor of Art History at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Marc Zender is a lecturer in anthropology at Harvard University.