Mesoamerica.
NMR| N° d'inventaire | 16075 |
| Format | 15.3 x 20.3 |
| Détails | 351 p., paperback. |
| Publication | Paris, 2019 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782711874705 |
Little Manuals of the Louvre School. Mesoamerica, land of the Olmecs, Mayans, Aztecs, land of conquest, of Moctezuma and Cortes, is a little-known or poorly understood universe. To better understand this "new" world, the work synthesizes more than a century of research in Mesoamerican archaeology and art history. An instrument of discovery and study, it gives us a glimpse of the intellectual and sensory universe of these ancient peoples, what the temples, the masks, the figures, these arts with enigmatic images that speak more to the intelligence than to the senses, these "conceptual" arts where conformity to nature is only secondary, where the religious, the magical, the political are expressed in a complex symbolic vocabulary where death is omnipresent. This reference and introductory work on Mesoamerican civilizations sheds light on aspects of pre-Columbian art that were previously reserved for specialists. It includes analyses of works, such as the turquoise mosaic mask from Teotihuacan, but also documents never before seen in Europe, such as the terracotta figurines from El Opeño, as well as exceptional photographs of archaeological sites. Some maps and site plans, completed and updated by the authors, appear only in this book.
Little Manuals of the Louvre School. Mesoamerica, land of the Olmecs, Mayans, Aztecs, land of conquest, of Moctezuma and Cortes, is a little-known or poorly understood universe. To better understand this "new" world, the work synthesizes more than a century of research in Mesoamerican archaeology and art history. An instrument of discovery and study, it gives us a glimpse of the intellectual and sensory universe of these ancient peoples, what the temples, the masks, the figures, these arts with enigmatic images that speak more to the intelligence than to the senses, these "conceptual" arts where conformity to nature is only secondary, where the religious, the magical, the political are expressed in a complex symbolic vocabulary where death is omnipresent. This reference and introductory work on Mesoamerican civilizations sheds light on aspects of pre-Columbian art that were previously reserved for specialists. It includes analyses of works, such as the turquoise mosaic mask from Teotihuacan, but also documents never before seen in Europe, such as the terracotta figurines from El Opeño, as well as exceptional photographs of archaeological sites. Some maps and site plans, completed and updated by the authors, appear only in this book.