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Unseen Art: Making, Vision, and Power in Ancient Mesoamerica

Unseen Art: Making, Vision, and Power in Ancient Mesoamerica

Brittenham, Claudia

Hardcover

ArchaeologyCaribbean, Latin American & South American ArtGeneral World History

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ISBN10: 1477325964
ISBN13: 9781477325964
Publisher: Univ Of Texas Pr
Published: Jan 17 2023
Pages: 184
Weight: 2.46
Height: 0.87 Width: 8.90 Depth: 11.26
Language: English

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 in the uses of secrecy and concealment, from a communal practice that fostered social memory to a tool of imperial power.

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