Aztecs
This important new book documents the splendid artistic legacy of the Aztecs, an extraordinary people who, in the space of only 200 years from 1325 to 1521, created one of the most impressive civilizations in the world. Published to accompany one of the greatest exhibitions of Aztec culture ever seen, this comprehensive volume with over 500 superb colorplates presents works of turquoise, gold, and jade, polychrome ceramics, illustrated codices and manuscripts, and monumental stone and wood sculptures. Nine authoritative essays written by a team of renowned scholars from Mexico, Britain, and the United States explore the Aztecs' view of the cosmos and their place within it, their religious beliefs, rulers, philosophy and literature, techniques of warfare, and day-to-day life. This book will stand as the definitive book on the Aztecs for years to come
Print Book, English, ©2002
Royal Academy of Arts, London, ©2002
Exhibition catalogues
520 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 30 cm
9781903973134, 9781903973226, 1903973139, 1903973228
50525805
The Aztecs' search for the past / Leonardo López Luján
Cosmovision, religion and the calendar of the Aztecs / Alfredo López Austin
Aztec society : economy tribute and warfare / Frances Berdan
The Templo Mayor, the great temple of the Aztecs / Eduardo Matos Moctezuma
Art at the time of the Aztecs
Felipe Solis Olguin
Aztec codices, literature and philosophy / Miguel León-Portilla
The conquest / Hugh Thomas
Exhibitions and collectors of pre-Hispanic Mexican artefacts in Britain / Adrian Locke
Antecedents / Esther Pasztory
The human form / Isabel Carlisle
The natural world / Alfredo López Austin
Gods of life / Adrian Locke
Gods of death / Adrian Locke
Religion / Felipe Solis Olguin
Gold and symbols of status / Warwick Bray
The Tempo Mayor at Tenochtitlan / Eduardo Matos Moctezuma
Treasures / Jeffrey Quilter
Contact : Indo-Christian art / Eleanor Wake
Codices / Joanne Harwood
"Originally published on the occasion of the exhibition 'Aztecs', Royal Academy of Arts, London, 16 November 2002-11 April 2003"--Title page verso