Aztec Art,9780806125367

Aztec Art

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Edition: Reprint
ISBN13: 9780806125367
ISBN10: 0806125365
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2000-03-01
Publisher(s): Univ of Oklahoma Pr
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Summary

This is the first comprehensive book on Aztec art: eleven chapters illustrated with seventy-five superb color plates and hundreds of photographs, supplemented by maps and diagrams. Temple architecture, majestic stone sculpture carved without metal tools, featherwork and turquoise mosaic, painted books, and sculptures in terra cotta and rare stones - all are here. Pasztory has placed these major works of Pre-Columbian art in a historical context, relating them to the reigns of individual rulers, events in Aztec history, and the needs of different social groups from the elite to the farmer. She focuses on the little-known aspects of the aesthetics, poetry and humanity of the Aztecs.

Table of Contents

Preface 7(4)
Historical and Cultural Background
11(59)
A Definition of Aztec Art
70(25)
Aztec Architecture and Cliff Sculpture
95(44)
The Major Monuments of Tenochtitlan
139(40)
Codices
179(30)
Stone Sculpture
209(41)
Lapidary Arts
250(19)
Wood Sculpture and Turquoise Mosaic
269(9)
Featherwork
278(3)
Terracotta Sculpture
281(11)
Ceramics
292(8)
Glossary 300(12)
Bibliography 312(11)
Index 323(12)
Photographic Credits 335

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