The description for this book, Lords of the Underworld: Masterpieces of Classic Mayan Ceramics, will be forthcoming.

Lords of the Underworld: Masterpieces of Classic Maya Ceramics

Coe, Michael

Kerr, Justin

Reference

Princeton University Press

Between 1400 and 400 BC, in what is now Mexico and Central America, the Olmec people created a magnificent culture, one too often overshadowed by those of the Maya and the Aztec. This catalogue accompanies an exhibition of over 250 Olmec works of art - ceramic, jade and stone - on display at the Art Museum, Princeton University in December 1995, and travelling to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Essays by prominent scholars offer interpretations of such topics as the power of objects within the context of the Olmec ritual system. These identify and illustrate the fundamental themes of Olmec small-scale sculpture, the sacred role of the maize in Olmec ideology, and the relationship of Olmec culture to later civilizations. An illustrated glossary of motifs and symbols is provided to clarify the often highly abstract style and encoded iconography of the Olmec. The book also includes precise mineralogical descriptions of the lithic materials they used.

The Olmec World: Ritual and Rulership

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Princeton University Art Museum / Harry N. Abrams

Atlas of Ancient America

Text, illustrations, and maps survey the history, art, and archaeology of the original cultures native to North, Central, and South America

Atlases & Maps

Checkmark Books

This volume of photographs and commentary brings together one of the most outstanding private collections of Pre-Columbian art treasures. Some highlights of the collection include Zapotec ceramics, Aztec onyx figures, Peruvian textiles, Olmec masks, Maya jade and pre-Colombian goldwork, all of extraordinary quality and beauty. Masters of the Americas will accompany a major exhibition at the Mus,es d'Art et d'Histoire in Geneva, Switzerland (October 2005 - April 2006) and at the Mus,e d'Art et d'Histoire du Cinquantenaire in Brussels, Belgium (opening September 2006).

Masters of the Americas: In Praise of the Precolumbian Artists

Reents-Budet, Dorie

Pohl, John

Benson, Elisabeth

Gillet Griffin

Joralemon, David

Lefort, Genevieve

Purini, Sergio

Riley, Kent

Rochaix, Fernando

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