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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: | Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.); San Antonio Museum of Art.; Los Angeles County Museum of Art.; et al |
| ISBN: | 0870995952 9780870995958 0870995960 9780870995965 0821217976 9780821217979 |
| OCLC Number: | 21593549 |
| Notes: | "Issued in conjunction with the exhibition ... held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 10, 1990-January 13, 1991; the San Antonio Museum of Art, April 6-August 4, 1991; and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, October 6-December 29, 1991." "A Bulfinch Press book." |
| Description: | xv, 712 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 31 cm. |
| Contents: | Director's foreword / Philippe de Montebello -- Sponsor's statement / Emilio Azcárraga -- Foreword / Victor Flores Olea -- Will for form / Octavio Paz -- Ancient Mexican art : diversity in unity / Beatriz de la Fuente -- The Olmec at La Venta / Richard A. Diehl -- Izapa : between Olmec and Maya / Gareth W. Lowe -- The metropolis of Teotihuacán / Rubén Cabrera Castro -- Monte Alban : hilltop capital in Oaxaca / Marcus Winter -- The Maya of lowland Palenque / Roberto García Moll -- El Tajín : great center of the northeast / S. Jeffrey K. Wilkerson -- Chichén Itzá and prosperity in Yucatán / Peter J. Schmidt -- Imperial Tenochtitlan / Eduardo Matos Moctezuma -- The progress of art in New Spain / Jorge Alberto Manrique -- The mission : evangelical utopianism in the New World (1523-1600) / Donna Pierce. Painted manuscripts / Elizabeth Hill Boone -- Mexican architecture and sculpture in Renaissance modes / Johanna Hecht -- Mexican painting of the Renaissance and Counter-Reformation / Marcus Burke -- Creole identity and the transmutation of European forms / Johanna Hecht -- A Mexican artistic consciousness / Marcus Burke -- The liberation of viceregal architecture and design / Johanna Hecht -- Painting : the eighteenth-century Mexican school / Marcus Burke -- Decorative arts and furniture / Donna Pierce -- Ceramics / Donna Pierce -- The Academy, neoclassicism, and independence / Marcus Burke -- The nineteenth century / Fausto Ramírez -- Printmaking : Posada and his contemporaries / David W. Kiehl -- Mexican art of the twentieth century / Dore Ashton. |
| Responsibility: | introduction by Octavio Paz ; [translations by Edith Grossman ... et al.]. |
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