The Art of Urbanism: How Mesoamerican Kingdoms Represented Themselves in Architecture and Imagery

by William L. Fash (Editor)

Other authorsAlfredo Lopez Austin (Contributor), Eduardo Matos Moctezuma (Contributor), Joyce Marcus (Contributor), Susan Gillespie (Contributor), Rex Koontz (Contributor), David C. Grove (Contributor), Robert H. Cobean (Contributor), Barbara W. Fash (Contributor), Patricia Plunket (Contributor), Leonardo López Luján (Editor), William Saturno (Contributor)9 more, Ann Cyphers (Contributor), Alexandre Tokovinine (Contributor), Dan Healan (Contributor), William Ringle (Contributor), Amparo Robles (Contributor), Gabriela Urunuela (Contributor), Zoltan Paulinyi (Contributor), George J. Bey Iii (Contributor), Anna Di Castro (Contributor)
Paperback, 2012

Status

Available

Call number

972.01

Collection

Publication

Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection (2012), 488 pages

Description

The Art of Urbanism explores how the royal courts of powerful Mesoamerican centers represented their kingdoms in architectural, iconographic, and cosmological terms. Through an investigation of the ecological contexts and environmental opportunities of urban centers, the contributors consider how ancient Mesoamerican cities defined themselves and reflected upon their physical--and metaphysical--place via their built environment. Themes in the volume include the ways in which a kingdom's public monuments were fashioned to reflect geographic space, patron gods, and mythology, and how the Olmec, Maya, Mexica, Zapotecs, and others sought to center their world through architectural monuments and public art. This collection of papers addresses how communities leveraged their environment and built upon their cultural and historical roots as well as the ways that the performance of calendrical rituals and other public events tied individuals and communities to both urban centers and hinterlands. Twenty-three scholars from archaeology, anthropology, art history, and religious studies contribute new data and new perspectives to the understanding of ancient Mesoamericans' own view of their spectacular urban and ritual centers.… (more)

Language

Original language

English

Physical description

10 inches

ISBN

0884023788 / 9780884023784

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