Reading Maya Art: A Hieroglyphic Guide to Ancient Maya Painting and Sculpture

by Andrea Stone and Marc Zender

The art of the ancient Maya may be considered their most singular cultural achievement. Yet despite a surge of popular interest in these remarkable people, few are fully aware of the richness of their artistic legacy, unique in all of pre-Columbian America. Maya art is a rare combination of linear elegance and naturalism blended with dazzling symbolic complexity. Decorated objects, ranging from painted vases and carved jade and shell ornaments to...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0500051682
• ISBN13: 9780500051689
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: Thames & Hudson
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.5" x 9.4"