State and Cosmos in the Art of Tenochtitlan - Dumbarton Oaks Pre-Columbian Art and Archaeology Studies Series

Richard Fraser Townsend

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Richard Fraser Townsend offers an interpretation of major examples of Mexica monumental art by identifying three interrelated iconographic themes: the conception of the universe as a sacred structure, the correspondence of the social order and the territory of the nation with the cosmic structure, and the representation of Tenochtitlan as the historically legitimate successor to the civilization of the past.

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Book information

ISBN:	9780884020837
Publisher:	Harvard University Press
Imprint:	Dumbarton Oaks
Pub date:	01 Jun 1979
Language:	English
Weight:	249g
Height:	267mm
Width:	197mm
Spine width:	6mm