| Contents |
List of illustrations -- Preface -- 1. Esther and Columbia in 1966 : the early years of pre-Columbian art history in U.S. academe / Cecelia F. Klein -- 2. Aesthetics of a line, entangled in a network : a tribute to Esther Pasztory's vision of Andean art / Gary Urton -- 3. Humboldt and the Inca ruin of Cañar / Georgia de Havenon -- 4. From a republic of letters to an empire of images : archaeological illustration and the Andes, 1850-1890 / Joanne Pillsbury -- 5. Life after death in Teotihuacan : the Moon Plaza's monoliths in colonial and modern Mexico / Leonardo López Luján -- 6. National icons and political interests : memories of Teotihuacan : city of the gods / Kathleen Berrin -- 7. Figures in action : contextualizing the butterfly personage at Teotihuacan, Mexico / Cynthia Conides -- 8. An "artistic discovery" of antiquity : Alfonso Caso, the archaeologist as curator at the New York World's Fair and MoMA's Twenty centuries of Mexican art, 1939-1940 / Ellen Hoobler -- 9. Objects and identities : ten important artifacts in the history of the ancient arts of Honduras / Jennifer von Schwerin with Franziska Fecher -- 10. Myth, ritual, history, and the built environment : Maya radial temples and ballcourts from the preclassic to postclassic periods / Jeff Karl Kowalski -- 11. Seasonal images in the ancient art of central Mexico / Susan Milbrath -- 12. Decolonizing Aztec picture-writing / Janice Lynn Robertson -- 13. The axochiatl pattern : Aztec science, legitimacy, and cross-dressing / Lois Martin -- 14. The goldsmith emerges : Aztec gold ornaments in the provinces / Timothy B. King -- 15. Atlatls and the metaphysics of violence in central Mexico / Andrew Finegold -- Afterword: From primitivism to multiple modernities and beyond / Esther Pasztory. |
