Description |
320 pages : illustrations (some color), maps, portraits ; 22 cm |
Contents |
Pt. I. In the beginning -- 1. Constraints and variants -- 2. The cultures of Western and Central Mexico and the Gulf Coast -- The western cultures -- Teotihuacán -- The Toltecs -- Monte Albán -- The Gulf cultures -- The Mixtec-Puebla culture -- The Aztecs -- 3. The Maya -- Tikal, Copán, Palenque -- The Río Bec, Chenes, and Puuc styles -- Maya-Toltec art -- Bonampak -- 4. The intermediate cultures and the jungle peoples -- Colombian goldwork -- The San Agustín culture -- Pre-Hispanic Ecuador, Amazonia, and Venezuela -- 5. The pre-Inca cultures -- The Chavín horizon -- The Paracas culture -- The Mochica culture -- Nazca art -- The Tiahuanaco horizon -- The Chimú and Chancay cultures -- The Incas -- Machu Picchu -- pt. II. The encounter with Europe -- 7. Constants and variants -- 8. American plateresque and the late renaissance -- Early architecture -- The great cathedrals -- Sculpture and painting -- 9. The baroque in Mexico -- Architecture -- Sculpture and painting -- 10. The baroque in Central America and the Caribbean -- Central America -- Cuba -- Venezuela and Colombia -- Military architecture -- Popular imagery -- 11. The baroque in Quito and the viceroyalty of New Granada -- Architecture -- Sculpture and painting -- 12. Peruvian baroque and the colonial period in Argentina and Chile -- Architecture in Cuzco -- Architecture in Arequipa -- Sculpture and painting -- Chile -- Argentina -- 13. Brazilian baroque -- Architecture -- Sculpture and painting -- Aleijadinho -- pt. III. The modern synthesis -- 14. Constraints and variants -- 15. The nineteenth century: from neoclassicism to impressionism -- Neoclassical architecture -- Romantic painting and sculpture -- Impressionism -- 16. “Primitive” painting -- 17. The twentieth century: the coming of age -- Mexican muralism -- Indigenism: a national or a pseudo-national art? -- 18. After muralism -- Painting in Mexico -- Painting in Central America and the Caribbean -- Painting in the south -- Totemic sculpture -- 19. The new architecture -- Mexico -- Central America and the Caribbean -- Venezuela -- Peru and Chile -- The Río de la Plata region -- Brazil |
Notes |
Bibliography: p. 297-299 |
Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 297-299 |
Subject |
Architecture -- Latin America -- History.
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Architecture, South American
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Art, Latin American -- History.
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Art, Latin American.
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Art, South American.
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Author |
Freeman, Phyllis.
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LC no. |
71514832 |
ISBN |
0269025243 |
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