Written by leading authorities and including thirteen personal accounts of the latest ground-breaking research, Courtly Arts of the Ancient Maya examines the royal courts and their art in unprecedented depth. Color photographs and specially commissioned drawings reveal a dazzling array of objects that still have the power to engage and astonish observers centuries after their creation.
The book investigates the rise in the importance of the court, its mythical backdrop, the role of women and the place of warfare. The works of artists and scribes - ceramic censers, stucco heads, jade masks, terracotta figurines, stone boxes, and great carved limestone lintels - bring alive the form, texture, and color of their vanished world.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Large, heavy hardcover in jacket, 304 pages, index, color and b + w photographs and illustrations throughout. Book is solid and bright. Some light, average reading wear to the pages; some rubbing to jacket; dust spotting to outer page edges. Very nice. Seller Inventory # ABE-1756414432322
Seller: Randall's Books, Cathedral City, CA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Thames & Hudson, New York & London, 2004. Hardcover, 304 pp. Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, which also was also shown in San Francisco. Fine condition in a very good, slightly rubbed dust jacket. Jacket is in a new mylar sleeve. Seller Inventory # ABE-1649857910340