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

by Claudia Brittenham

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1477325964
• ISBN13: 9781477325964
• Release Date: January 2023
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 2.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.9" x 11.3"