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.
The amazing accomplishments of the ancient Maya as well as the Maya currently living in Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula are highlighted in this collection of 25 creative, educational, hands-on projects.
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.
This book reveals how the ancient Maya - and their buildings, ideas, objects and identities - have been perceived, portrayed and exploited over 500 years in the Americas, Europe and beyond. 0Engaging in interdisciplinary analysis, the book summarizes ancient Maya art and history…
This book reveals how the ancient Maya and their buildings, ideas, objects and identities, have been perceived, portrayed and exploited over 500 years in the Americas, Europe and beyond. Megan E. O'Neil summarizes ancient Maya art and history from the Preclassic period to the Sp…
The Maya
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 …
This book reveals how the ancient Maya - and their buildings, ideas, objects and identities - have been perceived, portrayed and exploited over 500 years in the Americas, Europe and beyond. 0Engaging in interdisciplinary analysis, the book summarizes ancient Maya art and history…