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Teotihuacan : art from the city of the gods

Title
Teotihuacan : art from the city of the gods / edited by Kathleen Berrin and Esther Pasztory.
Publication
New York : Thames and Hudson ; San Francisco : Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, [1993], ©1993.

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Additional Authors
  • Berrin, Kathleen.
  • Pasztory, Esther.
  • Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
Description
288 pages : illustrations (some color), maps; 28 cm
Subject
  • Indian art > Mexico > Exhibitions
  • Kunst
  • Teotihuacán Site (San Juan Teotihuacán, Mexico) > Exhibitions
  • History
  • Mexico
Note
  • "The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, 26 May through 31 October 1993"--Verso of t.p.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-284) and index.
Contents
Preface / Harry S. Parker III -- Foreword / Maria Teresa Franco y Gonzalez Salas -- Acknowledgments / Kathleen Berrin and Esther Pasztory -- Envisioning a City -- The Place Where Time Began: An Archaeologist's Interpretation of What Happened in Teotihuacan History / Rene Millon -- Teotihuacan Unmasked: A View through Art / Esther Pasztory -- The Role of Teotihuacan in Mesoamerican Archaeology / Mari Carmen Serra Puche -- Unknown Treasures: The Unexpected in Teotihuacan Art / Kathleen Berrin -- Uncovering the Past -- Daily Life in the Teotihuacan Apartment Compounds / Linda Manzanilla -- Human Sacrifice at the Temple of the Feathered Serpent: Recent Discoveries at Teotihuacan / Ruben Cabrera Castro -- Funerary Practices and Human Sacrifice in Teotihuacan Burials / Carlos Serrano Sanchez -- What We Still Don't Know about Teotihuacan / George L. Cowgill -- Beyond Teotihuacan -- Symbols, Signs, and Writing Systems / J.C. Langley -- The Age of Teotihuacan and its Mission Abroad / Clemency Chase Coggins -- Teotihuacan and Its Mexican Legacy / Eduardo Matos Moctezuma and Leonardo Lopez Lujan -- Catalogue of Objects / Esther Pasztory, Clara Luz Diaz Oyarzabal, Ruben Cabrera Castro, Warren Barbour, Evelyn Childs Rattray, Cynthia Conides, Martha Carmona Macias and Leonardo Lopez Lujan.
ISBN
  • 0500236534 (cloth)
  • 9780500236536 (cloth)
  • 0884010767 (paper)
  • 9780884010760 (paper)
LCCN
93171714
OCLC
  • ocm28423003
  • 28423003
  • SCSB-14405253
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries