Description
This is the primary comprehensive book on Aztec art: eleven chapters illustrated with seventy-5 excellent color plates and loads of images, supplemented by maps and diagrams. Temple architecture, majestic stone sculpture carved with out metal tools, featherwork and turquoise mosaic, painted books, and sculptures in terra cotta and rare stones – all are here.
Pasztory has placed these major works of Pre-Columbian art in a historical context, relating them to the reigns of individual rulers, events in Aztec history, and the wishes of various social teams from the elite to the farmer. She specializes in the little-known aspects of the aesthetics, poetry and humanity of the Aztecs.