"This volume addresses a subject central to both world archaeology and trans-cultural art history. Landscape has been a key theme in the last half-century at least in both disciplines, particularly in the study of painting in art history and in all questions of human interventio…
This study examines the ways artists, architects, filmmakers, photographers, and other producers of visual culture in Mexico, the UnitedStates, Europe, and beyond have mined Mayan history and imagery.
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 reproduc…
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.
An introduction to the world of the ancient Maya also provides craft activities related to the daily lives and social customs of the ancient Maya, including making a musical gourd, a ceremonial mask, and a tzolk'in calendar wheel.
by O'Neil, Megan E., (Megan Eileen)
fromLost civilizations (Reaktion Books (Firm))
"The Maya reveals how this ancient civilization -- its buildings, ideas, objects and identities -- has been perceived, portrayed and exploited over five hundred years in the Americas, Europe and beyond. Megan E. O'Neil summarizes ancient Maya art and history from the Preclassic …
