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Description: Esthetic Recognition of Ancient Amerindian Art

Esthetic Recognition of Ancient Amerindian Art

Illustrations

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PublisherYale University Press

Copyright©1991 by Yale University

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00046.002

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-13692

Illustrations

Where copyright credit is not specifically recorded, it is due solely to the museum or collection given as the location.

1. Olmec jade mask, reset about 1720 (Munich, Residenz Museum).

2. André Leroi-Gourhan, diagram of human brain (after Le geste et la parole).

3. Pottery vessel, Mochica (after E. P. Benson); Quiriguá (Guatemala), Stelae E and A (after Kubler, 1969).

4. Palaeolithic migrations at north polar ice cap (after W. Mueller).

5. Periodization for Mesoamerica (after Kubler, 1984) and the Andes.

6. Andean chronology in 1949 (after W. C. Bennett and J. B. Bird); Andean chronology according to J. H. Rowe, in 1968 (after Rowe).

7. Mexico City, plan of present center, showing Aztec capital (after Toussaint, Fernandez, O’Gorman).

8. Designs of Aztec cotton mantles (after Codex Magliabechi, ed. F. Anders, Graz).

9. Michoacán, Indian illustration of Purépeche history (after Coruña).

10. Indian costumes, Codex Tudela (courtesy of the late Professor José Tudela).

11. Indian stone masons at the quarry (after B. de Sahagún, eds. Anderson and Dibble).

12. Landa’s Maya alphabet (after Landa’s Relación, ed. Tozzer).

13. Human sacrifice (after Durán, eds. Heyden and Horcasitas).

14. Tlatelolco, Franciscan church (Courtesy Art Library, Yale University).

15. Cathedral, Puebla, Mexico (after Toussaint).

16. Valadés, Indian temple (after Rhetorica cristiana); Mendieta, drawing after Valadés (from Palomera, 1963).

17. Guaman Poma, the Andean world (after Murra).

18. Map of Chalco Amecameca (after Chimalpain, ed. Rendón).

19. Oviedo, illustrations (after Oviedo, 1547).

20. Martinez Compañon, school for girls, including Indians (after Dominguez Bordona).

21. Dupaix, Mitla: Indian geometry (after Alcina, 1969).

22. Dupaix, drawing of relief at Palenque (after Alcina).

23. Moxó, geometric relief of Mitla style (after B. M. Moxó, 1805).

24. View of Cholula, 1811 (after Humboldt).

25. Coatlicue. Frontal, profile, and soffit views (after Fernandez).

26. Tula, plan of excavations (after Charnay).

27. Palenque, palace plan (after Charnay).

28. Statues, called Chac Mool (after Charnay).

29. Graph plotting time in relation to human growth (after Holmes, 1892).

30. Graph relating time to social evolution (after Holmes, 1892).

31. Graph of arts in relation to human societies (Holmes, 1894).

32. Graph of lithic techniques related to social organization (Holmes, 1894).

33. W. H. Holmes, Grand Canyon (c. 1881). Panoramic drawing.

34. W. H. Holmes, Teotihuacán in 1884 (after Holmes, 1895).

35. F. Catherwood, Castillo at Chichén Itzá, 1843 (after Stephens).

36. F. Catherwood, pottery bowl at Ticul (after Stephens).

37. Spinden, drawing of a Maya bowl “from near Peto” (after Spinden).

38. Spinden, diagram of cultural horizons by area and date (from Ancient Civilizations).

39. Dupaix, “Danzantes” carvings, Monte Albán (after Alcina).

40. Covarrubias, drawing of Balinese in Mexican mural manner (after Covarrubias, Bali).

41. Covarrubias, figurine types (after Indian Art).

42. Kutscher, Mochica stirrup-spout vessel from Chimbote, Peru.

43. Palenque, palace, House E. West hall, mural cartouche paintings (after Seler, 1915).

44. Codex Borgia, fo. 18, and Codex Fejérváry-Mayer, fo. 27 (after Seler Gesammelte Abhandlungen [1902–23], 4: 622, 743.

45. Mexico City, colossal jaguar sculpture with reliefs on basin walls in middle of back (after Seler, 1904; in Museo Nacional de Antropología).

46. Atzcapotzalco (Valley of Mexico), strata containing pottery sequence pre-Classic to Conquest (after Gamio, 1913).

47. Teotihuacán figurines, periods I–V (Vaillant, 1941).

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Description: Esthetic Recognition of Ancient Amerindian Art

BOOKEsthetic Recognition of Ancient Amerindian Art

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00046

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-13690

In this book one of the pioneering thinkers in the history of Pre-Columbian art considers the varying esthetic responses of Native Americans, Europeans, and Americanists to indigenous art of the Americas. George Kubler chronicles the lives and writings of seventy historians, explorers, missionaries, archaeologists, anthropologists, and art historians who lived between 1492 and 1984 and who devoted sustained attention to Amerindian art. His “biographical surroundings” focus on how these individuals differed in their ways of evaluating Amerindian art forms and what this reveals both about the art and about the development of esthetic thought.

Drawing on such sources as writings about Renaissance travels and military actions, the records of church missionaries in converting and resettling native peoples, statements by native and European historians in the seventeenth century, debates in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries about the worth of America to the world, archaeological and anthropological research since the mid-nineteenth century, and recent esthetic theories about ancient American art, Kubler presents the impressions of individuals form Columbus to Diego de Landa to Charles Darwin to Alfred Kroeber and Alfonso Caso. The book also includes and discusses drawings and photographs by travelers and explorers. Kubler’s historiographic approach allows us to view Amerindian art from a fresh and challenging perspective.

Author

PublisherYale University Press

Print publication date January 1991 (in print)

Print ISBN 9780300046328

EISBN 9780300222043

Copyright©1991 by Yale University

Illustrations 54

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