The Art of Mesoamerica: From Olmec to Aztec (World of Art S.)

by Mary Ellen Miller (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  1986

  $3.96

• Used

  Paperback
  2001

  $21.07

  This guide to the art and architecture of ancient Mesoamerica surveys the artistic achievements of the unified high Precolumbian civilizations - Olmec, Maya, Teotihuacan, Toltec, Aztec - as well as those of their lesser-known contemporaries. The book contains pictures of their pyramids and palaces, jades and brightly coloured paintings. The author of this work provides fresh readings of Mesoamerican works of art while offering archaeological interpretations. Also included in the book are hieroglyphic decipherments which give insights into ancient works, confirming the connections between the Maya and their neighbours.