Maya Narrative Arts

Maya Narrative Arts
ISBN-10
1607327414
ISBN-13
9781607327417
Category
History
Pages
328
Language
English
Published
2019-01-07
Authors
Karen Bassie-Sweet, Nicholas A. Hopkins

Description

"A comprehensive and innovative analysis of the principles of Classic Maya narrative arts and applying those principles to major Palenque monuments. Demonstrating recent methodological shifts in the examination of art and inscriptions away from technical issues and toward the poetics and narratives of texts including relationships between images"--Provided by publisher.

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