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Maya Imagery, Architecture, and Activity : Space and Spatial Analysis in Art History / edited by Maline D. Werness-Rude and Kaylee R. Spencer.

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Spencer, Kaylee R., 1975-
Werness-Rude, Maline D., 1977-
Language:
English
Genre:
Electronic books.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (442 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
Place of Publication:
Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, [2015]
Language Note:
English
Summary:
<em>Maya Imagery, Architecture, and Activity</em> privileges art historical perspectives in addressing the ways the ancient Maya organized, manipulated, created, interacted with, and conceived of the world around them.
Contents:
Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; 1: Imagery, Architecture, and Activity in the Maya World: An Introduction / Maline D. Werness-Rude and Kaylee R. Spencer; 2: Aligning the Jester God: The Implications of Horizontality and Verticality in the Iconography of a Classic Maya Emblem / Penny Steinbach; 3: Redefining God L: The Spatial Realm of a Maya "Earth Lord" / Michele M. Bernatz; 4: Space Men Carving Out a Sense of Place in the Chocholá Style / Maline D. Werness-Rude; 5: Public Spaces in the Ancient Maya City: A History / Flora Simmons Clancy
6: Locating Palenque's Captive Portraits: Space, Identity, and Spectatorship in Classic Maya Art / Kaylee R. Spencer7: Spaces of Transformation at Temple 1, Tikal, Guatemala / Elizabeth Drake Olton; 8: The Shifting Spatial Nexus of an Urban Maya Landscape: A Case Study of Architecture, Sculpture, and Ceramics at Yo'okop / Linnea Wren, Travis Nygard, and Justine M. Shaw; 9: The Ideal and the Symbolic: The Use of Shared Orientational Space in Contemporary Highland Maya Performance / Rhonda Taube; Epilogue: Portals, Turtles, and Mythic Places / Michael D. Carrasco; Contributors; Index
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Notes:
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.
ISBN:
9780826355805
0826355803
OCLC:
905490848

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