Pre-Columbian Art Historians - Mesoamerican Art Historians, Constantino Reyes-Valerio, Miguel Covarrubias, Elizabeth Hill Boone (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Mesoamerican Art Historians, Constantino Reyes-Valerio, Miguel Covarrubias, Elizabeth Hill Boone, Janet Catherine Berlo, Lorenzo Boturini Bernaducci, Doris Heyden, Karl Anton Nowotny, Jane Maclaren Walsh, H. B. Nicholson, Mary Miller, Arthur G. Miller, George Kubler, Henry Christy, Eloise Quiones Keber, Elizabeth P. Benson. Excerpt: Constantino Reyes-Valerio (10 January 1922 - 13 December, 2006) was a prominent Mexican scholar of pre-Columbian Mesoamerican cultures, particularly the Aztec and the Maya as well as the Colonial Art. Reyes-Valerio identified the artisitic contribution of Native Mexican Indians in the Colonial painting and sculpture; he coined the term Indochristian art. Another major contribution was his seminal work on the chemical composition and process of the Maya Blue Pigment where he re-discovered the technique used by the Maya to create the famous turquoise blue pigment. He was granted a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1972 for Fine Arts Research. He corresponded extensively with major scholars in mexico and abroad such as George Kubler, Santiago Sebastian and Enrique Marco Dorta among others. In 2000 he was named Emeritus Researcher by the Instituto Nacional de Antropologa e Historia. In April 2009, a special edition of the INAH bulletin (Boletin de Monumentos Historicos Num 12 enero-abril 2008) was published as an in memoriam edition dedicated to Constantino Reyes-Valerio. Several important researchers, Miguel Leon-Portilla, Alfredo Lpez Austin, Eduardo Matos Moctezuma, Giacomo Chiari, Carlos Navarrete Cceres, Beatriz Barba Ahuatzin, Dora Sierra, Guillermo Tovar y de Teresa, Manuel Sanchez del Rio, Rosa Camelo among others contributed with articles to this bulletin. Event at which the Photographic Archive of INAH's Coord... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=22235269