The Art and Architecture of Ancient America
Author | : George Kubler |
Publisher | : Viking Adult |
Total Pages | : 608 |
Release | : 1976-08-20 |
Genre | : Architecture |
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Author | : George Kubler |
Publisher | : Viking Adult |
Total Pages | : 608 |
Release | : 1976-08-20 |
Genre | : Architecture |
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Author | : George A. Kubler |
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Total Pages | : 572 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Indian art |
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Author | : George Kubler |
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Total Pages | : 576 |
Release | : 1992-05 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9780300053234 |
This book examines the development of the principal styles of ancient American architecture, sculpture, and painting until the end of the Aztec and Inca empires in the 16th century. The book tries to explain works of art as such, rather than dwelling upon those ideas about civilization which art is often made to illustrate in books of a more archaeological character.
Author | : George Kubler |
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Total Pages | : 604 |
Release | : 1962 |
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Author | : John Salt |
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Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1975 |
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Author | : George Kubler |
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Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 1962 |
Genre | : Mexico |
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Author | : George Kubler |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 582 |
Release | : 1993-01-01 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780300053258 |
Offers a survey of the paintings and architecture of the Mexican, Mayan, and Andean peoples
Author | : George Kubler |
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Release | : 1962 |
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Author | : Charles Phillips |
Publisher | : Southwater Publishing |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2008-01-31 |
Genre | : Aztec architecture |
ISBN | : 9781844763689 |
"Explore the architecture of ancient Mexico and Central America, and discover the fabulous arts and crafts, sculptures, metalwork and textiles of these great pre-industrial civilizations"--Cover.
Author | : Logan Wagner |
Publisher | : University of Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2013-04-04 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 029274983X |
The plaza has been a defining feature of Mexican urban architecture and culture for at least 4,000 years. Ancient Mesoamericans conducted most of their communal life in outdoor public spaces, and today the plaza is still the public living room in every Mexican neighborhood, town, and city—the place where friends meet, news is shared, and personal and communal rituals and celebrations happen. The site of a community’s most important architecture—church, government buildings, and marketplace—the plaza is both sacred and secular space and thus the very heart of the community. This extensively illustrated book traces the evolution of the Mexican plaza from Mesoamerican sacred space to modern public gathering place. The authors led teams of volunteers who measured and documented nearly one hundred traditional Mexican town centers. The resulting plans reveal the layers of Mesoamerican and European history that underlie the contemporary plaza. The authors describe how Mesoamericans designed their ceremonial centers as embodiments of creation myths—the plaza as the primordial sea from which the earth emerged. They discuss how Europeans, even though they sought to eradicate native culture, actually preserved it as they overlaid the Mesoamerican sacred plaza with the Renaissance urban concept of an orthogonal grid with a central open space. The authors also show how the plaza’s historic, architectural, social, and economic qualities can contribute to mainstream urban design and architecture today.