The Olmec world. Ritual and rulership. With essays by Michael D. Coe, Richard A. Diehl, Linda Schele und 5 andere. Principal Photographers John Bigelow Taylor, Justin Kerr and Bruce M. White.

Guthrie, Gill (Ed.)

ISBN 10: 0810963116 / ISBN 13: 9780810963115

Published by New York, Abrams Verlag, 1996

About this Item

4°. 30 x 30 cm. XI, 344 Seiten. Original-Leinenband mit illustriertem Original-Schutzumschlag. 1. Auflage. Englischsprachige Ausgabe. Mit zahlreichen Fotoabbildungen in Farbe und Skizzenabbildungen in Schwarz-Weiß. Publikation anlässlich der Ausstellung im The Art Museum, Princeton University, 16 Dezember 1995 - 25 Februar 1996. Schutzumschlag minimal berieben. Blätter im Randbereich minimal gebräunt. Sehr gutes Exemplar. First edition. English language edition. Exhibition catalogue. With many illustrations. Original cloth binding with dust jacket. Dust jacket slightly rubbed. Sheets slightly darkened at the margins. Fine copy.

Seller Inventory # 64751BB

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Olmec world. Ritual and rulership. With essays by Michael D. Coe, Richard A. Diehl, Linda Schele und 5 andere. Principal Photographers John Bigelow Taylor, Justin Kerr and Bruce M. White.
• Publisher: New York, Abrams Verlag
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0810963116
• ISBN 13: 9780810963115
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Sehr gut
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Weight: 2500 grams
• Seller catalogs:
  • Kunst: Außereuropäische Kunst

About this title

Synopsis

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.