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Between 1400 and 400 BC, in what is now Mexico and Central America, the Olmec people created a magnificent culture, one too often overshadowed by those of the Maya and the Aztec. This catalogue accompanies an exhibition of over 250 Olmec works of art - ceramic, jade and stone - on display at the Art Museum, Princeton University in December 1995, and travelling to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Essays by prominent scholars offer interpretations of such topics as the power of objects within the context of the Olmec ritual system. These identify and illustrate the fundamental themes of Olmec small-scale sculpture, the sacred role of the maize in Olmec ideology, and the relationship of Olmec culture to later civilizations. An illustrated glossary of motifs and symbols is provided to clarify the often highly abstract style and encoded iconography of the Olmec. The book also includes precise mineralogical descriptions of the lithic materials they used.
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Paperback. Black wraps with photo illustration and red and white lettering; xi, 344 pp.; richly illustrated. Created on the occasion of an exhibition held December 16, 1995 through February 25, 1996 at the Art Museum, Princeton University, and April 14th through June 9, 1996 at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston. Contents as follows: Foreword and acknowledgments / Allen Rosenbaum -- Preparing the way / David A. Freidel -- Olmec archaeology / Richard A. Diehl and Michael D. Coe -- Art, ritual, and rulership in the Olmec world / F. Kent Reilly, III -- Art in Olmec culture / Carolyn E. Tate -- Shamanism, transformation, and Olmec art / Peter T. Furst -- The Rainmakers: The Olmec and their contribution to Mesoamerican belief and ritual / Karl A. Taube -- The Olmec Mountain and Tree of Creation in Mesoamerican cosmology / Linda Schele -- Rocks and minerals employed by the Olmec as carvings / George E. Harlow. Catalogue of the Exhibition -- I. Regeneration and shamanism -- II. The shamanic landscape and journey -- III. Images of supernaturals -- IV. The Axis Mundi -- V. Rulers and regalia -- VI. The young lord -- VII. The shamanic bundle -- VIII. Regional manifestations of the Olmec style. VG (Wraps are lightly edgeworn/smudged/scuffed; interior is clean; binding is solid.). Seller Inventory # 195187
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