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- catalog abstract "This book is the first comprehensive study and reinterpretation of the unique arts of Teotihuacan, including architecture, sculpture, mural painting, and ceramics. Comparing the arts of Teotihuacan - not previously judged "artistic" - with those of other ancient civilizations, Esther Pasztory demonstrates how they created and reflected the community's ideals. Pasztory argues that, unlike the art of other Mesoamerican groups, the art of Teotihuacan refrains from glorifying rulers because its people wished to create the image of an integrated community. Instead their art glorifies nature and the supernatural and emphasizes egalitarian rather than aristocratic values. Pasztory identifies a great goddess who presided over this construction of civic harmony. Teotihuacan: An Experiment in Living is a portrait of a culture that made no portraits, a reinterpretation of a culture that left no texts interpreting itself. Nineteen color and seventy-seven black-and-white illustrations accompany the text.".
- catalog contributor b10184435.
- catalog coverage "Teotihuacán Site (San Juan Teotihuacán, Mexico)".
- catalog created "c1997.".
- catalog date "1997".
- catalog date "c1997.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1997.".
- catalog description "Foreword / Enrique Florescano -- I. Personal Discovery -- II. The Paradise of Tlaloc: The Aztec Hypothesis -- III. The New Archaeology and the State -- IV. The View from the Apartment Compound -- V. Mixed Messages: The Challenge of Interpretation -- VI. The Pyramid of the Sun and the Goddess -- VII. The Pyramid of the Moon and the Storm God -- VIII. The Ciudadela and Rulership -- IX. Minimalist Aesthetics: Plain and Simple Things -- X. Assemblage: Organization Made Explicit -- XI. The Net-Jaguar and Other Two-Dimensional Puzzles -- XII. The Human Body in Parts: Hearts and Footprints -- XIII. Divine Intervention -- XIV. The Human Element -- XV. An Experiment in Living.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-272) and index.".
- catalog description "This book is the first comprehensive study and reinterpretation of the unique arts of Teotihuacan, including architecture, sculpture, mural painting, and ceramics. Comparing the arts of Teotihuacan - not previously judged "artistic" - with those of other ancient civilizations, Esther Pasztory demonstrates how they created and reflected the community's ideals. Pasztory argues that, unlike the art of other Mesoamerican groups, the art of Teotihuacan refrains from glorifying rulers because its people wished to create the image of an integrated community. Instead their art glorifies nature and the supernatural and emphasizes egalitarian rather than aristocratic values. Pasztory identifies a great goddess who presided over this construction of civic harmony. Teotihuacan: An Experiment in Living is a portrait of a culture that made no portraits, a reinterpretation of a culture that left no texts interpreting itself. Nineteen color and seventy-seven black-and-white illustrations accompany the text.".
- catalog extent "xxii, 282 p. :".
- catalog identifier "080612847X (alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "1997".
- catalog issued "c1997.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Norman : University of Oklahoma Press,".
- catalog spatial "Mexico San Juan Teotihuacán.".
- catalog spatial "Mexico Teotihuacán Site (San Juan Teotihuacán, Mexico)".
- catalog spatial "Teotihuacán Site (San Juan Teotihuacán, Mexico)".
- catalog subject "972/.52 20".
- catalog subject "F1219.1.T27 P37 1997".
- catalog subject "Indian art Mexico San Juan Teotihuacán.".
- catalog subject "Indian art Mexico Teotihuacán Site (San Juan Teotihuacán, Mexico)".
- catalog tableOfContents "Foreword / Enrique Florescano -- I. Personal Discovery -- II. The Paradise of Tlaloc: The Aztec Hypothesis -- III. The New Archaeology and the State -- IV. The View from the Apartment Compound -- V. Mixed Messages: The Challenge of Interpretation -- VI. The Pyramid of the Sun and the Goddess -- VII. The Pyramid of the Moon and the Storm God -- VIII. The Ciudadela and Rulership -- IX. Minimalist Aesthetics: Plain and Simple Things -- X. Assemblage: Organization Made Explicit -- XI. The Net-Jaguar and Other Two-Dimensional Puzzles -- XII. The Human Body in Parts: Hearts and Footprints -- XIII. Divine Intervention -- XIV. The Human Element -- XV. An Experiment in Living.".
- catalog title "Teotihuacan : an experiment in living / by Esther Pasztory ; foreword by Enrique Florescano.".
- catalog type "text".