Olmec Art of Ancient Mexico

Olmec Art of Ancient Mexico
Author: National Gallery of Art (U.S.)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 304
Release: 1996
Genre: Art
ISBN:

Fourteen Olmec specialists discuss not only the works of art but also the many recent finds, that provide insights into Mexico's most ancient culture, as well as its cultural history, cosmology, and daily life. Colour photos. Quarto.

Casta Painting

Casta Painting
Author: Ilona Katzew
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2005-06-21
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780300109719

Casta painting is a distinctive Mexican genre that portrays racial mixing among the Indians, Spaniards & Africans who inhabited the colony, depicted in sets of consecutive images. Ilona Katzew places this art form in its social & historical context.

Blood, Ink, and Culture

Blood, Ink, and Culture
Author: Roger Bartra
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2002-07-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780822329237

DIVIn this collection Bartra offers commentary on connections between popular culture, national ideology, and the state, assessing sociocultural events and processes in Mexico and analyzing Mexico’s cultural and political relationship to the U.S./div