The art of urbanism
Subtitle: how Mesoamerican kingdoms represented themselves in architecture and imagery : 2005 Pre-Columbian Symposium, Dumbarton Oaks, Museo del Templo Mayor, Mexico, D.F., 7-9 October 2005
By: William L. Fash and Leonardo López Luján, editors.
Contributors: Fash, William Leonard.; López Luján, Leonardo.
Publisher: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780884023449
Subjects: Indians of Central America -- Antiquities -- Congresses; Indians of Mexico -- Antiquities -- Congresses; Indian art -- Congresses; Indian architecture -- Congresses; City and town life -- Central America -- History -- Congresses; City and town life -- Mexico -- History -- Congresses; Excavations (Archaeology) -- Central America -- Congresses; Excavations (Archaeology) -- Mexico -- Congresses; Central America -- Antiquities -- Congresses; Mexico -- Antiquities -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Early Olmec architecture and imagery / Ann Cyphers and Anna Di Castro; title: The people of the Cerro : landscape, settlement, and art at middle formative period Chalcatzingo / David C. Grove and Susan D. Gillespie; title: How Monte Alban represented itself / Joyce Marcus; title: Centering the kingdom, centering the king : creation and legitimation at the Maya site of San Bartolo / William Saturno; title: Cholula : art and architecture of an archetypal city / Gabriela Uruñuela y Ladrón de Guevara, Patricia Plunket Nagoda, and Amparo Robles Salmerón; title: A mountain god in Teotihuacan art / Zoltán Paulinyi; title: The House of New Fire at Teotihuacan and its legacy in Mesoamerica / William L. Fash, Alexandre Tokovinine, and Barbara W. Fash; title: Watery places and urban foundations depicted in Maya art and architecture / Barbara W. Fash and William L. Fash; title: Self identity and cosmology at El Tajín, Veracruz / Rex Koontz; title: Four hundred years of settlement and cultural continuity in epiclassic and early postclassic Tula / Alba Guadalupe Mastache, Dan Healan, and Robert H. Cobean; title: The face of the Itzas / William M. Ringle and George J. Bey III; title: The Mexica in Tula and Tula in Mexico-Tenochtitlan / Leonardo López Luján and Alfredo López Austin; title: Configuration of the sacred precinct of Mexico-Tenochtitlan / Eduardo Matos Moctezuma; title: Summary: Cities as cosmological art/The art of politics / Davíd Carrasco.