The Design of Ceremonial Space in Maya Architecture
Title | The Design of Ceremonial Space in Maya Architecture PDF eBook |
Author | Suzanne McCauley Pollock Martin |
Publisher | |
Pages | 306 |
Release | 1971 |
Genre | Maya architecture |
ISBN |
Maya Imagery, Architecture, and Activity
Title | Maya Imagery, Architecture, and Activity PDF eBook |
Author | Maline D. Werness-Rude |
Publisher | University of New Mexico Press |
Pages | 440 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | Maya architecture |
ISBN | 082635579X |
Maya Imagery, Architecture, and Activity privileges art historical perspectives in addressing the ways the ancient Maya organized, manipulated, created, interacted with, and conceived of the world around them. The Maya provide a particularly strong example of the ways in which the built and imaged environment are intentionally oriented relative to political, religious, economic, and other spatial constructs. In examining space, the contributors of this volume demonstrate the core interrelationships inherent in a wide variety of places and spaces, both concrete and abstract. They explore the links between spatial order and cosmic order and the possibility that such connections have sociopolitical consequences. This book will prove useful not just to Mayanists but to art historians in other fields and scholars from a variety of disciplines, including anthropology, archaeology, geography, and landscape architecture.
Space and Sculpture in the Classic Maya City
Title | Space and Sculpture in the Classic Maya City PDF eBook |
Author | Alexander Parmington |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 283 |
Release | 2011-03-31 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 1107002346 |
Examines how images, texts and architectural form controlled movement of people through the various precincts in Classic Maya cities.
The Architectural Development of Maya Ritual Space at Formative K'axob, Belize
Title | The Architectural Development of Maya Ritual Space at Formative K'axob, Belize PDF eBook |
Author | Cara Lonardo |
Publisher | |
Pages | 238 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Belize |
ISBN |
Maya Imagery, Architecture, and Activity
Title | Maya Imagery, Architecture, and Activity PDF eBook |
Author | Kaylee R. Spencer |
Publisher | UNM Press |
Pages | 432 |
Release | 2015-05-01 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0826355803 |
Maya Imagery, Architecture, and Activity privileges art historical perspectives in addressing the ways the ancient Maya organized, manipulated, created, interacted with, and conceived of the world around them. The Maya provide a particularly strong example of the ways in which the built and imaged environment are intentionally oriented relative to political, religious, economic, and other spatial constructs. In examining space, the contributors of this volume demonstrate the core interrelationships inherent in a wide variety of places and spaces, both concrete and abstract. They explore the links between spatial order and cosmic order and the possibility that such connections have sociopolitical consequences. This book will prove useful not just to Mayanists but to art historians in other fields and scholars from a variety of disciplines, including anthropology, archaeology, geography, and landscape architecture.
Function and Meaning in Classic Maya Architecture
Title | Function and Meaning in Classic Maya Architecture PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen D. Houston |
Publisher | Dumbarton Oaks |
Pages | 588 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 9780884022541 |
These articles mark a significant stage in the study of Maya architecture and the society that built it. They represent advances in our understandings of the past, point toward avenues for further studies, and note the distance yet to travel in fully appreciating and understanding this ancient American culture and its material remains.
Space and Sculpture in the Classic Maya City
Title | Space and Sculpture in the Classic Maya City PDF eBook |
Author | Alexander Parmington |
Publisher | |
Pages | 261 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Maya architecture |
ISBN | 9781107220485 |
"In this book, Alexander Parmington combines an examination of space, access control and sculptural themes and placement, to propose how images and texts controlled movement in Classic Maya cities. Using Palenque as a case study, this book analyzes specific building groups and sculptures to provide insight into the hierarchical distribution and use of ritual and administrative space in temple and palace architecture. Identifying which spaces were the more accessible and therefore more public, and which spaces were more segregated and consequently more private, Dr. Parmington demonstrates how sculptural, iconographic, and hieroglyphic content varies considerably when found in public/common or private/elite space. Drawing on specific examples from the Classic Maya and other early civilizations, he demonstrates that by examining the intent in the distribution of architecture and art, the variation and function of the artistic themes represented in sculpture and other monumental works of art can be better understood"--