Parution : Veiled brightness : a history of ancient Maya color
Créateur
- Houston, Stephen D. (19..-…. ; anthropologue). Auteur
- Brittenham, Claudia. Auteur
- Mesick, Cassandra. Auteur
- Stephen Houston serves as Paul Dupee Family Professor of Social Science at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.
- Claudia Brittenham holds a Ph.D. in the History of Art from Yale University and is now a member of the Michigan Society of Fellows at the University of Michigan.
- Cassandra Mesick is a doctoral candidate in anthropology at Brown University.
- Alexandre Tokovinine is Research Associate, Corpus of Maya Hieroglyphic Inscriptions, at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University.
- Christina Warinner is preparing her doctoral dissertation in anthropology at Harvard University.
Sommaire
- Prologue
- Chapter One. Seeing Color
- Sensing Color
- Theorizing Color in the West
- Comparative Theories of Color
- Colorizing Mesoamerica
- A Book on Maya Color
- Chapter Two. Naming Color
- Simplex Terms
- Complex Terms
- Organization of Colors
- Maya Color Terms
- Red
- White
- Black
- Yellow
- Yax
- Maya Terminology
- Chapter Three. Making Color
- Prime Colorants
- Feathers
- Flowers
- Shells
- Spondylus
- Mother-of-Pearl and Pearl
- Stones
- Jade
- Nonjade Greenstones
- Obsidian
- Turquoise
- Reflective Stones: Pyrite, Hematite, and Mica
- Translucent Stones
- Manufactured Colorants
- Dyes
- Pigments and Paints
- Blacks
- Whites
- Reds, Yellows, and Browns
- Blues and Greens
- Ceramics: A Special Case
- Making Maya Color
- Prime Colorants
- Chapter Four. Using Color
- Approaches and Limitations
- The Preclassic and Early Classic: Colors of the Earth
- Red, Black, and White
- The Late Preclassic: New Colors
- The Early Classic: Tradition and Retrenchment
- Color Use in the Preclassic and Early Classic
- The Late Early Classic and the Rise of Maya Blue
- Experiments in Ceramics
- The Invention of Maya Blue
- Architectural Color
- The Conservative Colors of Death
- Color Use in the Late Early Classic
- The Late Classic: Naturalism and Its Dissenters
- The Naturalistic Revolution
- Color and Dimension
- Rejections of Polychromy
- Color Use in the Late Classic
- The Terminal Classic: Rupture and Reinventions
- The Postclassic: The Colors of the Gods
- Early Postclassic: Five Basic Colors
- Late Postclassic: The “International Style”
- The “Blue-and-Black Style”
- Color Contrasts
- Color Use in the Postclassic
- Using Color
- Epilogue: A History of Maya Color
- Appendix: Dyes and Organic Colorants of the Maya and Aztecs
- Bibliography
- Index
Informations pratiques
- Éditeur : Austin : University of Texas press
- Date de parution : 2009
- Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XI-148 p.) : ill. en coul., jaquette ill. en coul. ; 29 cm
- Collection : (The William & Bettye Nowlin series in art, history, and culture of the Western hemisphere)
- Bibliogr. p. 110-141. Index
- ISBN 978-0-292-71900-2 (rel.)
Localisations
- PARIS-BnF : Tolbiac – Rez-de-jardin – magasin : 2011-3128
- NANTERRE-BU PARIS10
- PARIS-INHA
- PARIS-Médiathèque MQB
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Olivier Jacquot (6 avril 2020). Parution : Veiled brightness : a history of ancient Maya color. Amoxcalli. Consulté le 18 mars 2025 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/b2no