The Road to Aztlan: Art from a Mythic Homeland explores the art derived from and created about the legendary area that encompasses the American Southwest and portions of Mexico, from long before they were separated by an international border to the present day. Produced to accompany a major exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Road to Aztlan contains nineteen essays by an international team of scholars and artists who investigate the concept of Aztlan as a metaphoric center and allegorical place of origin for the various peoples of the Southwest and Mexico. Cultural interactions between the two areas span three millennia, beginning with the knowledge of maize agriculture, which spread north from Mexico around 1200 B.C. The contributors to this volume explore the relationship between myth and history as expressed in the region's art and material culture, as well as the evolution and persistence of cultural practices over the course of the pre-Columbian, colonial, and contemporary eras.

The Road to Aztlan: Art from a Mythic Homeland

History

Zamudio-Taylor, Victor

Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Fields, Virginia M.

Americas

Los Angeles County Museum

Published in conjunction with the major exhibition, The Road to Aztlan: Art from a Mythic Homeland explores the art derived from and created about the legendary area that encompasses the American Southwest and portions of Mexico long before they were separated by an international border. The book and accompanying exhibition view Aztlan as a metaphoric center and allegorical place of origin for the various peoples of the Southwest and Mexico. Cultural interactions between the two areas span two millennia, beginning with maize cultivation, which spread north from Mexico around BC 1200. The Road to Aztlan also investigates the relationship between myth and history as expressed in art and material culture of the region’s inhabitants over time and the relationship and continuities of cultural practices over the course of the pre-Columbian, colonial, and contemporary eras. Crucial to these changing relationships are aspects of tradition and innovation within cultures as! people sought to negotiate, maintain, and redefine their identities in the face of social disruption. 
Nineteen essays by an international team of scholars and artists including Miguel León-Portilla, Ramón A. Gutiérrez, Polly Schaafsma, Stephen H. Lekson, and Victoria D. Vargas address the issues and concepts that revolve around a sense of place and the dynamic traditions of the past and what that means today.

Lords of Creation : The Origins of Sacred Maya Kingship

Reents-Budet, Dorie

Published as the catalog of the exhibition that began at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art—and later moved to the Dallas Museum of Art and New York City's famed Metropolitan Museum of Art—this book documents the manifestations of royal authority between the ancient Mayas and their descendants. Publicado como el catálogo de la exposición inaugurada en el Los Angeles County Museum of Art y trasladada más tarde al Dallas Museum of Art y al Metropolitan Museum of Art en Nueva York, este libro abre nuevos caminos al documentar las manifestaciones de autoridad real entre los antiguos mayas y sus descendientes.

Los mayas: Señores de la creación: Los orígenes de la realeza sagrada (Spanish Edition)

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