State and Cosmos in the Art of Tenochtitlan Paperback by Richard Fraser Townsend

Product Details

• Publisher: Harvard University Press (1979-01-02)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 0 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780884020837
• Item Weight: 368.55 grams
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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.

About the Author

Richard Fraser Townsend, a noted expert on pre-Columbian culture, received his PhD from Harvard University for his work on the art of Tenochtitlan. He is a former curator of the Department of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas at the Art Institute of Chicago.