Olmec Art of Ancient Mexico
Title | Olmec Art of Ancient Mexico PDF eBook |
Author | National Gallery of Art (U.S.) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 304 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN |
Fourteen Olmec specialists discuss not only the works of art but also the many recent finds, that provide insights into Mexico's most ancient culture, as well as its cultural history, cosmology, and daily life. Colour photos. Quarto.
Olmec
Title | Olmec PDF eBook |
Author | Kathleen Berrin |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Mexico |
ISBN | 9780300166767 |
"This catalogue was published by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art on the occasion of the exhibition Olmec: Colossal Masterworks of Ancient Mexico"--Colophon.
Olmec Art of Ancient Mexico
Title | Olmec Art of Ancient Mexico PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780810962385 |
Olmec
Title | Olmec PDF eBook |
Author | Susan M. Arensberg |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Indian art |
ISBN |
Mexico
Title | Mexico PDF eBook |
Author | Michael D. Coe |
Publisher | |
Pages | 262 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
Masterly....The complexities of Mexico's ancient cultures are perceptively presented and interpreted.--Library Journal
Olmec
Title | Olmec PDF eBook |
Author | National Gallery of Art (U.S.) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 12 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Art, Mexican |
ISBN |
Reconsidering Olmec Visual Culture
Title | Reconsidering Olmec Visual Culture PDF eBook |
Author | Carolyn E. Tate |
Publisher | University of Texas Press |
Pages | 360 |
Release | 2012-01-18 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0292728522 |
Recently, scholars of Olmec visual culture have identified symbols for umbilical cords, bundles, and cave-wombs, as well as a significant number of women portrayed on monuments and as figurines. In this groundbreaking study, Carolyn Tate demonstrates that these subjects were part of a major emphasis on gestational imagery in Formative Period Mesoamerica. In Reconsidering Olmec Visual Culture, she identifies the presence of women, human embryos, and fetuses in monuments and portable objects dating from 1400 to 400 BC and originating throughout much of Mesoamerica. This highly original study sheds new light on the prominent roles that women and gestational beings played in Early Formative societies, revealing female shamanic practices, the generative concepts that motivated caching and bundling, and the expression of feminine knowledge in the 260-day cycle and related divinatory and ritual activities. Reconsidering Olmec Visual Culture is the first study that situates the unique hollow babies of Formative Mesoamerica within the context of prominent females and the prevalent imagery of gestation and birth. It is also the first major art historical study of La Venta and the first to identify Mesoamerica's earliest creation narrative. It provides a more nuanced understanding of how later societies, including Teotihuacan and West Mexico, as well as the Maya, either rejected certain Formative Period visual forms, rituals, social roles, and concepts or adopted and transformed them into the enduring themes of Mesoamerican symbol systems.