"The territory stretching from northern Mexico to Chile is one of six world regions where ancient civilizations arose―joining Egypt, the Near East and Mesopotamia, the Indus Valley, North China and Southeast Asia. The intellectual and artistic accomplishments of the ancient American peoples rival those of the others, including fully developed writing systems, the tallest structures in the western hemisphere until the 20th century, and te ..."
"This stunning new volume features objects from the internationally renowned Bourne Collection of pre-Columbian art spanning assembled by John Bourne in the 1950's and 1960's. It features fine examples of painted earthenware vessels and figures, carved basalt effigies, jewellery and vessels from Mesoamerica, Central America and Andean America covering a host of civilisations, including Teotihuacan, Olmec, Maya, Andean, Aztec and Mixtec. ..."
"Lavishly illustrated with nearly 400 color images, Painting the Maya Universe is the most thorough study and brilliant display of Classic Maya ceramic painting yet published. Building on twenty years of research and debate, Dorie Reents-Budet and her collaborators Joseph W. Ball, Ronald L. Bishop, Virginia M. Fields, and Barbara MacLeod bring together many perspectives, including the art historical, archaeological, epigraphical, and eth ..."
"Lavishly illustrated with nearly 400 color images, Painting the Maya Universe is the most thorough study and brilliant display of Classic Maya ceramic painting yet published. Building on twenty years of research and debate, Dorie Reents-Budet and her collaborators Joseph W. Ball, Ronald L. Bishop, Virginia M. Fields, and Barbara MacLeod bring together many perspectives, including the art historical, archaeological, epigraphical, and eth ..."
Passionate Journey The Grice Collection of Native American Art by DorieReents-Budet Hardcover, 168 Pages, Published 2009 by Museum ISBN-13: 978-0-9762300-6-9, ISBN: 0-9762300-6-2
"Published in conjunction with an exhibition organized by and held at the Mint Museum ofArt, Charlotte, N.C., July 18-Oct. 18, 2009."
""A New World Imagined" proposes a bold new look at the art of the Americas by viewing it through its intersections and relationships with the world at large. Taking the vast geography and staggering cultural diversity of the North and South American continents as its starting point, the book introduces the ways in which American art, broadly defined, has been shaped both by its encounters with cultures around the globe and by its own pa ..."
"The impression given by painted pottery, murals, and carved monuments in the Maya area is of a highly scheduled existence, marked by periodic and prescribed acts and ritual obligations, especially among the rulers and elites of antiquity. This relationship was mapped out in the very structure of their ancient cities, with wide processional ways leading to soaring pyramidal structures and temples that served as stages for the politico-re ..."
"Divinely sanctioned kingship is found among the ancient civilizations throughout the world. It has been a largely unexplored process in ancient Mesoamerica. Sacred kings, who played key roles in the emergence of complex urban society, first appeared among the Olmec on the Gulf Coast of Mexico around 900 BC, but the full growth of this phenomenon occurred in southern Mexico, Guatemala, Belize and the western Honduras among the most brill ..."
"Based on the comprehensive study of one of the most important collections of Maya art in the United States, "Ancient Maya Art at Dumbarton Oaks" is a scholarly introduction to one of the great traditions of sculpture and painting in ancient America. Assembled by Robert Woods Bliss between 1935 and 1962, the collection is historically important, as it was one of the first to be established on the basis of aesthetic criteria. The catalogu ..."
""Divinely sanctioned kingship is found among the ancient civilizations throughout the world. It has been a largely unexplored process in ancient Mesoamerica. Sacred kings, who played key roles in the emergence of complex urban society, first appeared among the Olmec on the Gulf Coast of Mexico around 900 BC, but the full growth of this phenomenon occurred in southern Mexico, Guatemala, Belize and the western Honduras among the most bril ..."
"Documenting more than 300 works of ancient American art collected by John Bourne-148 of which are photographed and described in detail-this book surveys his internationally renowned collection of Mesoamerican, Central American, and Andean South American art, spanning 2500 years of pre-Columbian civilization. In 1946, Bourne and adventurer Carl Frey were the first non-Maya to see the now-famous ruins of Bonampak in the Mexican state of C ..."
"Macduff Everton's photographs are some of the most haunting and beautiful documents of Maya life - ancient and modern - I have seen. They provide viewpoints that are uniquely his own, and with artistry and sensitivity, they open up for us, the Western world, a window in the experiences of another people. - Linda Schele, Associate Professor of Art, University of Texas at Austin, author of The Blood of Kings, Code of Kings, A Forest of Ki ..."
"This accessible, state-of-the-art review of Mayan hieroglyphics and cosmology also serves as a tribute to one of the field's most noted pioneers. The core of this book focuses on the current study of Mayan hieroglyphics as inspired by the recently deceased Mayanist Linda Schele. As author or coauthor of more than 200 books or articles on the Maya, Schele served as the chief disseminator of knowledge to the general public about this anci ..."
"Published in conjunction with the major exhibition, The Road to Aztlan: Art from a Mythic Homeland explores the art derived from and created about the legendary area that encompasses the American Southwest and portions of Mexico long before they were separated by an international border. The book and accompanying exhibition view Aztlan as a metaphoric center and allegorical place of origin for the various peoples of the Southwest and Me ..."
"Divinely sanctioned kingship is found among the ancient civilizations throughout the world. It has been a largely unexplored process in ancient Mesoamerica. Sacred kings, who played key roles in the emergence of complex urban society, first appeared among the Olmec on the Gulf Coast of Mexico around 900 BC, but the full growth of this phenomenon occurred in southern Mexico, Guatemala, Belize and the western Honduras among the most brill ..."
"This volume of photographs and commentary brings together one of the most outstanding private collections of Pre-Columbian art treasures. Highlights of the collection include Zapotec ceramics, Aztec onyx figures, Peruvian textiles, Olmec masks, Maya jade and pre-Colombian goldwork, all of extraordinary quality and beauty. Contributors include distinguished specialists such as Gillet Griffin, Sergio Purini, F. Kent Reilly, Peter David Jo ..."
"•Hundreds of works of pre-Columbian art, little known to the general public or specialist, are brought together in this lavishly illustrated volume The pre-Columbian art of Latin America is still being discovered in the mountain valleys, deserts, tropical jungles and storerooms of museums and private collectors. From ancient Valdivian figurines and vessels made 5000 years before the arrival of Europeans, to Inca and Aztec objects create ..."