Lavishly illustrated with nearly 400 color images, Painting the Maya Universe is the most thorough study and brilliant display of Classic Maya ceramic painting yet published. Building on twenty years of research and debate, Dorie Reents-Budet and her collaborators Joseph W. Ball, Ronald L. Bishop, Virginia M. Fields, and Barbara MacLeod bring together many perspectives, including the art historical, archaeological, epigraphical, and ethnohistorical, to examine one of the world’s great but overlooked painting traditions. With an emphasis on sixth- to eighth-century pottery featuring both pictorial and hieroglyphic imagery, Painting the Maya Universe presents an extraordinary exploration of the cultural roles and meanings of these Guatemalan, Belizean, and Mexican elite painted ceramics. Maya pottery is discussed both in aesthetic terms and for the important information it reveals about Maya society, artistry, politics, history, religion, and ritual. The range of ceramic painting styles developed during this period is also presented and defined in detail. Painting the Maya Universe is the first publication to present a definitive translation of the hieroglyphic texts painted on these objects. With many glyphs deciphered here for the first time, this analysis reveals much about how these vessels were perceived and used by the Maya, their owners’ names, and, in several cases, the names of the artists who created them. This information is combined with archaeological and other data, including nuclear chemical analyses, to correlate painting styles with specific Maya sites. Published in conjunction with Duke University Museum of Art and an exhibition touring the United States, Painting the Maya Universe presents an astonishing visual record as well as a monumental scholarly achievement. With photographs by Justin Kerr, the foremost photographer of pre-Columbian art, it includes over 90 unique full-color rollout photographs, each showing the entire surface of an object in a single frame. The book also addresses the questions and controversy regarding the loss of information that occurs when objects are removed from their archaeological context to become part of public and private collections. Painting the Maya Universe will energize discussion of Maya pottery, hieroglyphic texts, and iconography. Its photographs, a lasting resource on this great painting tradition, will stimulate and delight the eye. It is a breakthrough in art history and Latin American scholarship that will enrich general readers and scholars alike.

Painting the Maya Universe: Royal Ceramics of the Classic Period

Arts & Photography

Reents-Budet, Dorie

History & Criticism

Duke University Press Books

Painting the Maya Universe: Royal Ceramics of the Classic Period (Duke University Museum of Art)

Lords of Creation : The Origins of Sacred Maya Kingship

Fields, Virginia M.

Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Exploring Art of the Ancient Americas: The John Bourne Collection

This stunning new volume presents full-colour plates, details, groupings and comparative images of approximately 147 Pre-Columbian works (spanning 1200 B.C. to A.D. 1530) from the collection assembled by John G. Bourne in the 1950s and 1960s. It features fine examples of painted earthenware vessels and figures, carved basalt effigies, jewellery and vessels from Mesoamerica, Central America and Andean America covering a host of civilizations, including Teotihuacán, Olmec, Maya, Andean, Aztec and Mixtec. In addition to John Bourne’s fascinating account of his first expedition to Chiapas in 1945 and 1946, which started his passion for collecting, there is an extensive essay on authentication, a significant part of the study of pre-Columbian art. Each of the three geographical sections of the main catalogue opens with an introductory text on the art, culture and ceremonial features of that region, followed by discursive entries accompanying each work.

GILES

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)

Editorial Nerea

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

Pohl, John

Coe, Michael

Benson, Elisabeth

Gillet Griffin

Joralemon, David

Lefort, Genevieve

Purini, Sergio

Riley, Kent

Rochaix, Fernando

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