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For the Classic Maya, who flourished in and around the Yucatan peninsula in the first millennium AD, artistic materials were endowed with an internal life. Far from being inert substances, jade, flint, obsidian and wood held a vital essence, agency and even personality. To work with these materials was to coax their life into full expression and to engage in witty play. Writing, too, could shift from hieroglyphic signs into vibrant glyphs that sprouted torsos, hands and feet. Appearing to sing, grapple and feed, they effectively blurred the distinction between text and image. In this first full study of the nature of Maya materials and animism, renowned Mayanist scholar Stephen Houston provides startling insights into a Pre-Columbian worldview that dramatically contrasts with western perspectives. Illustrated with more than 100 photographs, images and drawings, this beautifully written book reveals the Maya quest for transcendence in the face of inevitable death and decay.

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Zaradenie knihy Knihy po anglicky The arts Art forms Non-graphic art forms

• Celý názov: Life Within
• Autor: Stephen Houston
• Jazyk: Angličtina
• Väzba: Pevná
• Počet strán: 208
• EAN: 9780300196023
• ISBN: 0300196024
• ID: 02393540
• Nakladateľ: YALA
• Hmotnosť: 1010 g
• Rozmery: 212 × 261 × 22 mm
• Dátum vydania: 25. March 2014

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