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Beschreibung:

XLIII; 420 S.; zahlreiche Illustrationen; 8°. Originalleinen mit Schutzumschlag; illustr. Schuber.

Bemerkung:

Gutes Ex.; Umschl. u. Schuber stw. etwas berieben. - Englisch. - INHALT : LIST OF FIGURES -- LIST OF PLATES -- FOREWORD -- MAP OF MEXICO -- MAPS OF CENTRAL AMERICA -- MAP OF PERU -- CHRONOLOGICAL TABLES -- 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 Early Hunters - Early Villagers- The Theocracies- The Terminal Stages -- Part One The Mexican Civilizations -- THE EARLY VALLEY OF MEXICO -- Formative: 3000-500 B.C. Teotihuacan: 100 B.C.-A.D. 750 -- Chronology - Architecture - Sculpture - Painting Xochicalco -- THE VALLEY OF MEXICO AFTER A.D. 800 -- The Toltec Revolution -- Architecture - Sculpture The Chichimec Interlude -- The Aztec Confederacy Architecture - Sculpture - Painting -- THE GULF COAST -- The Olmec Style -- Ideographic Forms - Colossal Heads - Relief Sculpture - Figurines of Clay -- and Jade - Painting The Central Coast -- Architecture - Stone Sculpture - Clay Figurines and Heads The Huasteca -- SOUTHERN MEXICO -- The Classic Zapotec Style -- Architecture - Stone Sculpture - Clay Sculpture - Wall Painting The Mixtecs -- Mitla - The Marriage Reliefs - Murals - Painted Books and Maps - Ceramics -- WESTERN MEXICO -- The Stone-workers of Guerrero -- The Potters of Colima, Jalisco, and Nayarit -- Michoacan -- The Northern Plateaus -- Part Two The Maya and their Neighbours -- THE MAYA TRADITION: ARCHITECTURE -- Classic Maya -- Geographical Divisions - Temporal Divisions Classic Architecture -- The Peten - The River Cities - The Dry Forest: Rio Bee - The Well Country: Los Chenes - The Hill Country: the Puuc -- THE MAYA TRADITION: SCULPTURE AND PAINTING -- Sculpture -- Commemorative Monuments and Figural Reliefs -Jades - Pottery Architectural Decoration Painting -- Pottery Painting -- FROM THE TOLTEC MAYA TO THE SPANIARDS -- Architecture -- Chichin 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 Ulxia 'Marbles' - Costa Rican Mainland Sculpture - The Pacific Coast -- Part Three The Andean Civilizations -- THE NORTHERN ANDES: COLOMBIA AND ECUADOR -- Northern South America -- Colombia -- Architecture - Sculpture - Metalwork -- The Pacific Equatorial Coast -- THB CENTRAL ANDES: EARLY NORTHERN PERU -- Pre-Chavin Remains in the North -- Early Ancash Art -- Cerro Sechin - Moxeke - Punkuri - Chavfn -- Later Ancash Art -- The Callejon de Huaylas -- THE UPPER NORTH: MOCHICA AND CHIMU : -- Pre-Mochica Styles -- The Classic Mochica Peoples : -- Architecture - Sculpture - Painting -- The End of Mochica Art : -- The Lambayeque Dynasty : -- The Chimu Period : -- Architecture - Sculpture -- The Highland Basins // (u.a.m.) ISBN 0140560211