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

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Art and Writing within the Maya Cities, AD six hundred-800 examines a very powerful aspect of the visual cultures of the traditional Maya in southern Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, and Honduras. All the way through a very important period of cultural evolution, artistic production changed significantly, as calligraphy turned into an increasingly more essential formal element in Maya aesthetics and used to be used extensively in monumental building, sculptural programs and small-scale utilitarian objects. Adam Herring’s study analyzes art works, 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 traditional Maya city, his book melds epigraphic and iconographic methodologies with the very important tradition of art-historical interpretation.

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