Jade in Ancient Costa Rica

Juan V. Guerrero M., Mark M. Graham, Michael J. Snarkis, Zulay S. Mendez (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

144 Seiten

2013
Metropolitan Museum of Art (Verlag)
978-0-300-20001-0 (ISBN)

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Jade in Ancient Costa Rica is an exhibition that illustrates a particular moment in Precolumbian America when a group of works of art takes on a special and traditional singularity. The jades presented here, made over the course of about a thousand years in an area that today is chiefly northern and central Costa Rica, are precious, intimate objects, lustrous in surface, intricate in image, and totally personal in intent. Works of closely related shape and, without doubt, closely related significance, they bear witness to the enduring power of traditional custom among one of those ancient societies that are far removed from our own. Relative degrees of uniformity and individuality characterize these small, ambitious sculptures, and the relativities both reassure us of our own ability to see distinctions and puzzle at our inability to understand them. In order to gain insight into this illusive meaning, essays are presented here that deal with the aspects of ancient Costa Rica jade that can be examined today-the all-important archaeological context, the formal relationships with other jade-using areas of Precolumbian America, a review of the images themselves, and a look at their possible meaning. [This book was originally published in 1998 and has gone out of print. This edition is a print-on-demand version of the original book.]

Erscheint lt. Verlag	25.6.2013
Zusatzinfo	164 illus. (107 in color)
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	216 x 279 mm
Gewicht	612 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Design / Innenarchitektur / Mode
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Malerei / Plastik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Technik ► Architektur
ISBN-10	0-300-20001-3 / 0300200013
ISBN-13	978-0-300-20001-0 / 9780300200010
Zustand	Neuware