From Library Journal
The Bonampak murals, discovered in ruins in a remote jungle in Chiapas, Mexico in 1946, are the finest classical Mayan murals known. Miller reinterprets them in light of new knowledge as a series of ritual events that took place A.D. 790-792. There are elaborate pageants with musicians, the royal family and heir, a battlefield, captives being tortured (which revises the notion of the Maya as unwarlike), and women. The murals are so placed that the viewer is at the center of the scene just as in circlevision. Miller's detailed study is accompanied by pictures of other sites. Paramount are the beautiful reproductions (65), which may become our only remembrance of the murals; they are so much the center of rivalries that no major conservation effort is under way. For scholarly collections.Louise Leonard, Univ. of Florida Lib., Gainesville
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.
