Reading Maya Art : A Hieroglyphic Guide to Ancient Maya Painting and Sculpture - A Hieroglyphic Guide to Ancient Maya Painting and Sculpture

Informationen zum Autor Andrea Stone is Professor of Art History at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Marc Zender is a Lecturer at Harvard University. Klappentext Lavishly illustrated, fully cross-referenced and indexed: an invaluable book for anyone wishing to see and understand Maya art through the eyes of ancient scribes and artists. Vorwort A groundbreaking guide to looking at Maya art through the eyes of ancient scribes and artists Zusammenfassung A compendium of one hundred hieroglyphs that are building locks of ancient Maya painting and sculpture. Using over five hundred line drawings and photographs, it shows how to identify the signs, understand their meaning, and appreciate the novel ways they appear in art.

Product details

• Authors: Andrea Stone, Stone Andrea, Marc Zender, Zender Marc
• Publisher: Thames & Hudson
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.07.2011
• EAN: 9780500051689
• ISBN: 978-0-500-05168-9
• No. of pages: 248
• Dimensions: 190 mm x 240 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 920 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; ART / History / Ancient & Classical, ART / Sculpture & Installation, ART / Caribbean & Latin American, sculpture, History of Art, Ancient World, Painting & paintings, Classical style, History of art: ancient & classical art,BCE to c 500 CE, BCE to c 500 CE, BCE period – Protohistory, Paintings and painting, Central America, Mexico and Central America, Maya;Central America;Travel;Calligraphy;Script;Epigraphy