Art and Writing in the Maya Cities, AD 600-800: A Poetics of Line by Herring, Adam - 2005

xvi+316 pages with 16 colored plates, figures, maps, illustrations, bibliography, and index. Small quarto (10 1/4" x 7 1/4") issued in black cloth with white lettering to spine. First edition.Art and Writing in the Maya Cities, AD 600-800, examines an important aspects of the visual cultures of the ancient Maya in southern Mexico, Guatemala, Belize and Honduras. During a critical period of cultural evolution, artistic production changed significantly, as calligraphy became an increasingly important formal element in Maya aesthetics and was used extensively in monumental building, sculptural programs, and small-scale utilitarian objects. Adam Herring's study analyzes artworks, visual programs, and cultural sites of memory, providing an anthropologically informed description of ancient Maya culture, vision, and artistic practice. An inquiry into the contexts and perceptions of the Ancient Maya city, the work melds epigraphic and iconographic methodologies with the critical tradition of art-historical… Read More

Cambridge University Press, 2005-12-30. hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8x1x10. Contents are tight and clean

Cambridge University Press, 2005-08-15. Hardcover. Used; Like New/Very Good. 10x6x1. New York, 2005; black cloth covered boards; mild shelf wear; illustrated jacket with mild wear; remainder mark on bottom edges; 4to, 9 3/4"-12" tall; interior pages in like new condition; Interior is clean and unmarked; 316 pages.

New York: Cambridge University Press, [2005]. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/near fine. 8vo. xvi, 316 pp. Bound in full black cloth in illustrated dust jacket. Full-color and black and white illustrations. Near Fine, minor bump to bottom edge of front cover, otherwise bright and clean in Fine dust jacket. Very attractive copy.

Cambridge University Press, 2005-06-17. Hardcover. Very Good. 3.2995 25.6345 17.2589. Unread. There is some shelfwear to the dust jacket.

Cambridge University Press. Very Good. 0521842468. 2005, bright clean copy, with dustjacket, no markings, Professional booksellers since 1981 . 2005. Hardcover.

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Hard Cover. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; Examines important aspects of the visual cultures of the ancient Maya. During a critical period of cultural evolution, artistic production changed significantly, as calligraphy became an increasingly important formal element in Maya aes

Hardback. New. Examines important aspects of the visual cultures of the ancient Maya. During a critical period of cultural evolution, artistic production changed significantly, as calligraphy became an increasingly important formal element in Maya aesthetics and was used extensively. Adam Herring's study analyzes art works, visual programs, and cultural sites of memory.