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Teotihuacan: An Experiment in Living Hardcover - 1997

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This book is the first comprehensive study and reinterpretation of the unique arts of Teotihuacan, including architecture, sculpture, mural painting, and ceramics. Comparing the arts of Teotihuacan - not previously judged artistic - with those of other ancient civilizations, Ester Pasztory demonstrates how they created and reflected the community's ideals.

Most people associate the pyramids of central Mexico with the Aztecs, but these colossal constructions antedate the Aztecs by more than a thousand years. The people of Teotihuacan, who built the pyramids as part of a city of unprecedented size, remain a mystery.

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This book is the first comprehensive study and reinterpretation of the unique arts of Teotihuacan, including architecture, sculpture, mural painting, and ceramics. Comparing the arts of Teotihuacan - not previously judged "artistic" - with those of other ancient civilizations, Esther Pasztory demonstrates how they created and reflected the community's ideals. Pasztory argues that, unlike the art of other Mesoamerican groups, the art of Teotihuacan refrains from glorifying rulers because its people wished to create the image of an integrated community. Instead their art glorifies nature and the supernatural and emphasizes egalitarian rather than aristocratic values. Pasztory identifies a great goddess who presided over this construction of civic harmony. Teotihuacan: An Experiment in Living is a portrait of a culture that made no portraits, a reinterpretation of a culture that left no texts interpreting itself. Nineteen color and seventy-seven black-and-white illustrations accompany the text.

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  • Title Teotihuacan: An Experiment in Living
  • Author Esther Pasztory
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 304
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Oklahoma Press, Norman
  • Date 1997-04-15
  • ISBN 9780806128474 / 080612847X
  • Weight 1.91 lbs (0.87 kg)
  • Dimensions 10.35 x 7.27 x 1.04 in (26.29 x 18.47 x 2.64 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Latin America
    • Cultural Region: Mexican
  • Library of Congress subjects Teotihuacan Site (San Juan Teotihuacan,, Indian art - Mexico - Teotihuacan Site (San
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 96-32775
  • Dewey Decimal Code 972.52

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  • Publishers Weekly, 03/17/1997, Page 69
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