Название: Unseen Art: Making, Vision, and Power in Ancient Mesoamerica
Автор: Claudia Brittenham
Издательство: University of Texas Press
ISBN: ‎1477325964
Год: 2023
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 188
Размер: 68,1 МБ
Язык: Английский

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.