Lightning Gods and Feathered Serpents - The Public Sculpture of El Tajin

Informationen zum Autor Rex Koontz is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Houston. He has published two previous books, Landscape and Power in Ancient Mesoamerica (with Kathryn Reese-Taylor and Annabeth Headrick) and Mexico: From the Olmecs to the Aztecs (fifth edition with Michael D. Coe). Klappentext The first extensive treatment in over thirty years of the iconography displayed on public monuments in an important Mesoamerican city in Veracruz, Mexico. Zusammenfassung The first extensive treatment in over thirty years of the iconography displayed on public monuments in an important Mesoamerican city in Veracruz, Mexico. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments1. Approaching El Tajín2. The Pyramid of the Niches3. The Divine Ballcourt4. The Tajín Court: The Mound of the Building Columns5. Audiences and Deities at El TajínNotesBibliographyIndex

Product details

• Authors: Rex Koontz
• Publisher: University Of Texas Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.04.2009
• EAN: 9780292718999
• ISBN: 978-0-292-71899-9
• No. of pages: 151
• Series: The Linda Schele Series in Maya and Pre-Columbian Studies; The Linda Schele Series in Maya and Pre-Columbian Studies; Linda Schele Series in Maya an; The Linda Schele Maya and Pre-
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Plastic arts; Non-fiction book > History > Pre and early history, antiquity