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Author Kubler, George, 1912-1996.

Title The art and architecture of ancient America : the Mexican, Maya, and Andean peoples / George Kubler
Edition Second edition
Published Harmondsworth [Eng.] ; Baltimore : Penguin, 1975

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 WATERFT ART&ARCH  709.8 Kub/Aaa 1975  AVAILABLE
Description xliii, 420 pages, 97 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 27 cm
Series Pelican history of art
Pelican history of art.
Contents Introduction -- The lands and the peoples -- Mesoamerica -- the Andean environment -- The chronological problem -- Anthropology and American antiquity -- Diffusion or polygenesis? -- The history of art -- The place of the artist -- The Mexican civilizations -- The early valley of Mexico -- Formative: 3000-500 B.C. -- Teotihuacán: 100 B.C.-A.D. 750 -- Xochicalco -- The valley of Mexico after A.D. 800 -- The Toltec revolution -- The Chichimec interlude -- The Aztec confederacy -- The Gulf Coast -- The Olmec style -- The Central Coast -- The Huasteca -- Southern Mexico -- The classic Zapotec style -- The Mixtecs -- Western Mexico -- The stone-workers of Guerrero -- The potters of Colima, Jalisco, and Nayarit -- Michoacán -- The northern plateaus -- The Maya and their neighbours -- The Maya tradition: architecture -- Classic Maya -- Classic architecture -- The Petén -- The river cities -- The Dry Forest: Río Bec -- The well country: los chenes -- The hill country: the Puuc -- The Maya tradition: sculpture and painting -- Sculpture -- Commemorative monuments and figural reliefs -- jade -- pottery -- Architectural decoration -- Painting -- Pottery painting -- From the Toltec Maya to the Spaniards -- Architecture -- Chichén Itza -- The East Coast -- The problem of Tula -- Sculpture -- Full-round figures -- processional reliefs -- Painting -- Murals -- manuscripts -- The neighbours of the Maya -- The Guatemalan highlands -- Eastern Central America -- The Ulúa 'marbles' -- Costa Rican mainland sculpture -- The Pacific Coast -- The Andean civilizations -- The northern Andes: Colombia and Ecuador -- Northern South America -- The Pacific equatorial coast -- The central Andes: early Northern Peru -- Pre-Chavín remains in the North -- Early Ancash Art -- Cerro Sechín -- Moxeke -- Punkurí -- Chavín -- Later Ancash art -- The callejón de Huaylas -- The upper north: Mohica and Chimu -- Pre-Mochica styles -- The classic Mochica peoples -- The end of Mochica art -- The Lambayeque dynasty -- The Chimu period -- The highland basins -- Central Peru -- From Lima north -- South of Lima -- The South Coast valleys -- Paracas and Nazca -- The end of Nazca art -- The middle horizon (c. 600-1000) -- The south highlands -- The early Altiplano -- Tiahuanaco -- The Mantaro Basin -- The Valley of Cuzco -- Inca architecutre -- Sculpture and painting
Summary "This book - now revised and brought up to date throughout - deals with the development of the principal styles of ancient American architecture, sculpture, and painting until the end of the Aztec and Inca empires in the sixteenth century. It tries to explain works of art as such, rather than dwelling upon those ideas about civilization which art is usually made to illustrate in books of a more archaeological character. The arrangement is by geographical regions in three main divisions: Mexico, Central America, and western South America. Architecture, sculpture, and painting occupy most of the volume. Town planning, pottery, textiles, and jewellery are among many topics discussed under the guiding divisions of region and period." -book jacket
Analysis Indian architecture
Indian art
Indians Antiquities
Latin America Antiquities
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 385-402
Notes Pelican history of art. no:[2] 1975
Subject Antiquities -- Latin America.
Antiquities, Pre-Columbian
Indian architecture.
Indian art.
Indians of Mexico -- Antiquities.
Indians of South America -- Antiquities.
Indians -- Antiquities.
SUBJECT Latin America -- Antiquities. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008115994
LC no. 77352362
ISBN 0140560211