| | Veiled Brightness(1st Edition) A History of Ancient Maya Color (The William and Bettye Nowlin Series in Art, History, and Culture of the Western Hemisphere) by Stephen D. Houston, Cassandra Mesick, Claudia Brittenham, Christina Warinner, Alexandre Tokovinine Hardcover, 162 Pages, Published 2009 by University Of Texas Press ISBN-13: 978-0-292-71900-2, ISBN: 0-292-71900-0
"Color is an integral part of human experience, so common as to be overlooked or treated as unimportant. Yet color is both unavoidable and varied. Each culture classifies, understands, and uses it in different and often surprising ways, posing particular challenges to those who study color from long-ago times and places far distant. Veiled Brightness reconstructs what color meant to the ancient Maya, a set of linked peoples and societies ..."
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