Lives of the Gods
Divinity in Maya Art
ISBN: HB: 9781588397317,
Yale University Press,
Metropolitan Museum of Art,
October 2022
240 pp., 27,9x22,8 cm, 275 colour illus.
240 pp., 27,9x22,8 cm, 275 colour illus.
This engaging exploration of the Maya pantheon introduces readers to the complex stories of Mesoamerican divinity through the stunning carvings, ceramics, and metalwork of the Classic period.
Focusing on the period between A.D. 250 and 900, "Lives o...
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40.00 GBP
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Jewelry
The Body Transformed
ISBN: HB: 9781588396501,
Yale University Press,
Metropolitan Museum of Art,
November 2018
272 pp., 25,4x22,9 cm, 300 colour illus.
272 pp., 25,4x22,9 cm, 300 colour illus.
As an art form, jewelry is defined primarily through its connection to and interaction with the body – extending it, amplifying it, accentuating it, distorting it, concealing it, or transforming it. But how is the meaning of jewelry bound to the body...
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Golden Kingdoms
Luxury Arts in the Ancient Americas
ISBN: HB: 9781606065488,
Getty Publications,
September 2017
320 pp., 25,0x15,0 cm, illus.
320 pp., 25,0x15,0 cm, illus.
This volume accompanies a major international loan exhibition featuring some three hundred works of art rarely or never before seen in the United States. It traces the development of gold working and other luxury arts in the Americas from antiquity u...
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50.00 GBP
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Design for Eternity
Architectural Models from the Ancient Americas
ISBN: PB: 9781588395764,
Yale University Press,
Metropolitan Museum of Art,
November 2015
160 pp., 24,1x21,6 cm, 100 colour illus.
160 pp., 24,1x21,6 cm, 100 colour illus.
From the first millennium B.C. until the arrival of Europeans in the 16th century, artists from across the ancient Americas created small-scale architectural effigies to be placed in the tombs of important individuals. These works in stone, ceramic,...
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18.99 GBP
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