The mysterious world of the Aztecs is re-created in this book, which gives a view of the culture. Photographs, maps and diagrams reveal temple architecture, majestic stone sculptures carved without metal tools, lost techniques of featherwork and turquoise mosaic, painted books and more.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
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More Aztec art books, PLEASE!,
By M. Hart "paxdominivobiscum" (Volant, PA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Aztec Art (Paperback)
A wonderful book; I'd buy another like it in a heartbeat. For Mesoamerican/Aztec cultural arts fans, this is a "must buy" and makes a SUPER gift!
Anyone serious about understanding the Aztec mind and social order should read both "Time and Sacrifice in the Aztec Cosmos" (K. A. Read) and also, "THE JADE STEPS" by Burr Cartwright Brundage (University of Utah Press; (c)1985; ISBN# 0-87480-247-4). FYI, Dr. Brundage has authored nearly a dozen extraordinarily well written and researched books on Aztec civilization; most are (sadly) tough to find.
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Wanted less bla bla, more pictures of, well, ART,
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I respect the author based on her previous works on Teotihuacan. However in this large work of 335 pages I found myself in the midst of too much text and not enough photographs or other depictions of art. Yes there are around 320 plates/illustrations. But the amount of text was a bit much for me. This is because often, even with an art historian doing the schpeel, you end up receiving accepted ideas about a piece which may or may not have anything to do with what the work was originally about. I ended up feeling I was reading through others ideas about the Aztecs and that there was no voice of the Aztec themselves. This is a common danger in archeological works. So while I can recommend this book as a check out from a library I find it not taking a significant place in a personal collection on MesoAmerican art.
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Gorgeously illustrated,
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From the back cover: "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.
In 1984 the book received a Special Citation from the Charles Rufus Morey Book Award Committee of the College Art Association."
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COLUMBUS'S DISCOVERY OF THE AMERICAS. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
buccal mask, temple headdress, crested headdress, bench relief, religious codices, cliff relief, divinatory almanac, tasseled headdress, jaguar helmet, ritual almanac, chat mool, historical codices, divinatory calendar, pulque gods, fold manuscript, twin pyramid, earth monster, turquoise diadem, stepped fret, place glyphs, turquoise mosaic, year bundle, gladiatorial sacrifice, lapidary arts, dough images Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Mexico City, Valley of Mexico, Museo National de Antropología, Museo Nacional de Antropología, Codex Borbonicus, Temple Stone, Stone of Tizoc, Calendar Stone, Codex Mendoza, Temple of Huitzilopochtli, Aztec Art Plate, New Fire Ceremony, British Museum, Lake Texcoco, Codex Boturini, New York, Dedication Stone, Bibliothčque Nationale, Gulf Coast, Codex Borgia, Coyolxauhqui Relief, Mapa Quinatzin, Classic Veracruz, Crested Headdress, Castillo de Teayo New!
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COLUMBUS'S DISCOVERY OF THE AMERICAS. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
buccal mask, temple headdress, crested headdress, bench relief, religious codices, cliff relief, divinatory almanac, tasseled headdress, jaguar helmet, ritual almanac, chat mool, historical codices, divinatory calendar, pulque gods, fold manuscript, twin pyramid, earth monster, turquoise diadem, stepped fret, place glyphs, turquoise mosaic, year bundle, gladiatorial sacrifice, lapidary arts, dough images Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Mexico City, Valley of Mexico, Museo National de Antropología, Museo Nacional de Antropología, Codex Borbonicus, Temple Stone, Stone of Tizoc, Calendar Stone, Codex Mendoza, Temple of Huitzilopochtli, Aztec Art Plate, New Fire Ceremony, British Museum, Lake Texcoco, Codex Boturini, New York, Dedication Stone, Bibliothčque Nationale, Gulf Coast, Codex Borgia, Coyolxauhqui Relief, Mapa Quinatzin, Classic Veracruz, Crested Headdress, Castillo de Teayo New!
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- Archaeological Frontiers and External Connections (Handbook of Middle American Indians, Vol. 4) by Gordon Ekholm on 5 pages
- The Conquest of New Spain (Penguin Classics) by Bernal Diaz del Castillo on page 18, and Back Matter
- The Essential Codex Mendoza by Frances F. Berdan on page 78, and page 206
- Mexico City by Andrew Coe in Back Matter
- The Broken Spears: The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico by Miguel Leon-Portilla in Back Matter
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- Aztecs: An Interpretation (Canto) by Inga Clendinnen on 5 pages
- Time and Sacrifice in the Aztec Cosmos (Religion in North America) by Kay Almere Read on page 97, page 140, and Back Matter
- Carr, O'Keeffe, Kahlo: Places of Their Own by Ms. Sharyn Rohlfsen Udall in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Body: An Encyclopedia of Archetypal Symbolism by George R. Elder on page 73, and page 423
- The Mapping of New Spain: Indigenous Cartography and the Maps of the Relaciones Geograficas by Barbara E. Mundy in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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