Unseen Art

Released on by Claudia Brittenham
preview-18

  • Unseen Art Book Detail

  • Author : Claudia Brittenham
  • Release Date : 2023-01-17
  • Publisher : University of Texas Press
  • Genre : Art
  • Pages : 188
  • ISBN 13 : 1477325972
  • File Size : 2,2 MB
DOWNLOAD BOOK

Unseen Art by Claudia Brittenham PDF Summary

Book Description: In Unseen Art, Claudia Brittenham unravels one of the most puzzling phenomena in Mesoamerican art history: why many of the objects that we view in museums today were once so difficult to see. She examines the importance that ancient Mesoamerican people assigned to the process of making and enlivening the things we now call art, as well as Mesoamerican understandings of sight as an especially godlike and elite power, in order to trace a gradual evolution in the uses of secrecy and concealment, from a communal practice that fostered social memory to a tool of imperial power. Addressing some of the most charismatic of all Mesoamerican sculptures, such as Olmec buried offerings, Maya lintels, and carvings on the undersides of Aztec sculptures, Brittenham shows that the creation of unseen art has important implications both for understanding status in ancient Mesoamerica and for analyzing art in the present. Spanning nearly three thousand years of the Indigenous art of Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, and Belize, Unseen Art connects the dots between vision, power, and inequality, providing a critical perspective on our own way of looking.

Disclaimer: www.yourbookbest.com does not own Unseen Art books pdf, neither created or scanned. We just provide the link that is already available on the internet, public domain and in Google Drive. If any way it violates the law or has any issues, then kindly mail us via contact us page to request the removal of the link.

Unseen Art

Unseen Art

File Size : 91,91 MB
Total View : 6883 Views
DOWNLOAD

In Unseen Art, Claudia Brittenham unravels one of the most puzzling phenomena in Mesoamerican art history: why many of the objects that we view in museums today

The Dynamite Art of Alex Ross

The Dynamite Art of Alex Ross

File Size : 43,43 MB
Total View : 7772 Views
DOWNLOAD

Alex Ross' ultra-realistic, painted renditions of iconic superheroes have made him a superstar. In the vein of acclaimed and fan-favorite Alex Ross books such a

The Unseen Art of Hollywood

The Unseen Art of Hollywood

File Size : 11,11 MB
Total View : 810 Views
DOWNLOAD

Comic book and storyboard artist Trevor Goring, together with Joyce Goring, detail the history of film storyboards. This important and long-neglected art is now

Revealing the Unseen

Revealing the Unseen

File Size : 28,28 MB
Total View : 4378 Views
DOWNLOAD

Collected articles on Iranian art from the Qajar dynasty. The thirteen articles in this volume were originally given as presentations at the symposium of the sa

Seen/unseen

Seen/unseen

File Size : 71,71 MB
Total View : 6015 Views
DOWNLOAD

"This book is not a history of art, or a history of science, or even a history of their interaction. Rather, Martin Kemp, the distinguished art historian, trace