Unseen Art: Making, Vision, and Power in Ancient Mesoamerica
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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...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:1477325964
ISBN13:9781477325964
Release Date:January 2023
Publisher:University of Texas Press
Length:184 Pages
Weight:2.46 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 8.9" x 11.3"
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