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The Aztec Calendar Stone Hardcover – April 20, 2010
The Aztec Calendar Stone includes an extended scholarly introduction and a selection of twenty-one key sources dating from 1581 to the present on this massive and puzzling sculpture--including works by Antonio de Leon y Gama, Alfredo Chavero, Eduard Seler, Hermann Beyer, Carlos Navarrete and Doris Heyden, Cecelia Klein, H. B. Nicholson, Felipe Solis, Eduardo Matos Moctezuma, and others--many published here for the first time in English.
- Print length344 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherGetty Research Institute
- Publication dateApril 20, 2010
- Dimensions8.5 x 1.2 x 10.5 inches
- ISBN-10160606004X
- ISBN-13978-1606060049
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“This beautifully illustrated Getty Research Institute publication will undoubtedly take its place as a classic contribution, indispensable to any and all future studies and considerations of the calendar stone. A must have.”—Choice
“[This] book merits contemplation and emulation.”—Cambridge Archaeological Times
About the Author
Khristaan D. Villela is a visiting professor of art history at the University of New Mexico and a visiting scholar at the New Mexico History Museum. Mary Ellen Miller is a professor of art history at Yale University and dean of Yale College.
Product details
- Publisher : Getty Research Institute; 1st edition (April 20, 2010)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 344 pages
- ISBN-10 : 160606004X
- ISBN-13 : 978-1606060049
- Item Weight : 3.69 pounds
- Dimensions : 8.5 x 1.2 x 10.5 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #2,904,402 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #348 in Aztec History
- #2,686 in Mexico History
- #10,732 in Native American History (Books)
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