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Pre-Columbian Art

All titles (1998 to the present) in Recent Books in the Arts.

Arnade, Peter, and Michael Rocke, eds. Power, Gender, and Ritual in Europe and the Americas: Essays in Memory of Richard C. Trexler. Essays and Studies, vol. 17. Edited by Konrad Eisenbichler. Toronto: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, Victoria University in the University of Toronto, 2010. 364 pp.; 34 ills. Paper $37.00 (9780772720412)

Berrin, Kathleen, and Virginia M. Fields, eds. Olmec: Colossal Masterworks of Ancient Mexico. Exh. cat. San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New Haven: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and Yale University Press, 2010. 272 pp.; 231 color ills. Paper $39.95 (9780300166767)

Boone, Elizabeth Hill, and Gary Urton, eds. Their Way of Writing: Scripts, Signs and Pictographies in Pre-Columbian America. Dumbarton Oaks Pre-Columbian Symposia and Colloquia series. Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oakes Research Library and Collection, 2012. 422 pp.; 55 color ills.; 136 b/w ills. Cloth $65.00 (9780884023685)

Braun, Barbara. Pre-Columbian Art and the Post-Columbian World. Harry N. Abrams, 1999. 340 pp.; 97 color ills.; 214 b/w ills. Paper $34.95 (0810929473)

Brown, Steven C. Native Visions: Evolution in Northwest Coast Art from the Eighteenth through the Twentieth Century. University of Washington Press, 1997. (0295976586)

Burger, Richard L., Craig Morris, and Ramiro Matos Mendieta, eds. Variations in the Expression of Inka Power. Washington D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 2008. 449 pp.; 74 color ills.; 89 b/w ills. Cloth $55.00 (9780884023517)

Carder, James N. A Home of the Humanities: The Collecting and Patronage of Mildred and Robert Woods Bliss. Dumbarton Oaks Collection, vol. 1. Washington, DC: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 2011. 177 pp.; Many color ills. Cloth $65.00 (9780884023654)

Causey, Faya. Amber and the Ancient World. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2012. 144 pp.; 63 color ills. Cloth $25.00 (9781606060827)

Clancy, Flora Simmons. Scupture in the Ancient Maya Plaza. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1998. 169 pp.; 56 b/w ills. Cloth (0826317871)

Clarke, John E., and Mary E. Pye, eds. Olmec Art and Archaeology in Mesoamerica. Yale University Press in association with National Gallery of Art, 1999. 344 pp.; 11 color ills.; 270 b/w ills. Cloth $50.00 (0300085222)

Company, Reindeer. The Art Historian, 2 Vols., ("Ancient to Medieval" and "Renaissance to Modern and Non-Western"). The Reindeer Company, 1997. 600 ills. CD-ROM $40.00

DiCesare, Catherine R. Sweeping the Way: Divine Transformation in the Aztec Festival of Ochpaniztli. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2009. 248 pp.; 39 b/w ills. Cloth $55.00 (9780870819438)

Diel, Lori Boornazian. The Tira de Tepechpan: Negotiating Place under Aztec and Spanish Rule. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2008. 208 pp.; 20 color ills.; 32 b/w ills. Cloth $65.00 (9780292718319)

Donnan, Christopher B. Moche Portraits from Ancient Peru. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2003. 220 pp.; 258 color ills.; 52 b/w ills. Cloth $39.95 (0292716222)

Evans, Susan Toby, ed. Ancient Mexican Art at Dumbarton Oaks. Washington D.C. : Harvard University Press, 2010. 110 color ills.; 93 b/w ills. Cloth $70.00 (9780884023456)

Evans, R. Tripp. Romancing the Maya: Mexican Antiquity in the American Imagination, 1820–1915. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2003. 224 pp.; 64 b/w ills. Cloth $45.00 (0292702477)

Fash, William L., and Leonardo López Luján, eds. The Art of Urbanism: How Mesoamerican Kingdoms Represented Themselves in Architecture and Imagery. Washington, DC: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 2010. 576 pp.; Few color ills.; 130 b/w ills. Cloth $49.95 (9780884023449)

Fash, Barbara M. The Copan Sculpture Museum: Ancient Maya Artistry in Stucco and Stone. Cambridge, MA: Peabody Museum Press, 2011. 216 pp.; 198 color ills.; 69 b/w ills. Paper $35.00 (9780873658584)

Finamore, Daniel, and Stephen D. Houston, eds. Fiery Pool: The Maya and the Mythic Sea. Exh. cat. New Haven: Yale University Press in association with Peabody Essex Museum, 2010. 328 pp.; 207 color ills.; 168 b/w ills. Cloth $65.00 (9780300161373)

Guernsey, Julia. Ritual and Power in Stone: The Performance of Rulership in Mesoamerican Izapan Style Art. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2006. 256 pp.; 144 b/w ills. Cloth $45.00 (9780292713239)

Guernsey, Julia, John E. Clark, and Barbara Arroyo, eds. The Place of Stone Monuments: Context, Use, and Meaning in Mesoamerica's Preclassic Transition. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2010. 368 pp.; 94 color ills.; 88 b/w ills. Cloth $59.95 (9780884023647)

Headrick, Annabeth. The Teotihuacan Trinity: The Sociopolitical Structure of an Ancient Mesoamerican City. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2007. 226 pp.; 131 ills. Cloth $55.00 (9780292716650)

Houston, Stephen, Claudia Brittenham, Cassandra Mesick, Alexandre Tokovinine, and Christina Warinner. Veiled Brightness: A History of Ancient Maya Color. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2010. 162 pp.; 24 color ills.; 25 b/w ills. Cloth $60.00 (9780292719002)

Jackson, Margaret A. Moche Art and Visual Culture in Ancient Peru. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2009. 224 pp.; 14 color ills.; 76 b/w ills. Cloth $45.00 (9780826343659)

Klein, Cecelia F., ed. Gender in Pre-Hispanic America. Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 2000. 397 pp.; 118 b/w ills. Cloth $40.00 (088402279X)

Labbé, Armand J. Shamans, Gods, and Mythic Beasts: Colombian Gold and Ceramics in Antiquity. American Federation of Arts in association with University of Washington Press, 1998. 216 pp.; many color ills.; few b/w ills. Paper (0295977558)

Lau, George F. Andean Expressions: Art and Archeology of the Recuay Culture. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2011. 320 pp.; 15 color ills.; 50 b/w ills. Paper $39.95 (9781587299735)

Lerner, Jesse. The Maya of Modernism: Art, Architecture, and Film. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2011. 224 pp.; 30 b/w ills. Cloth $45.00 (9780826349811)

Longhena, Maria. Maya Script: A Civilization and Its Writing. Trans. Rosanna M. Giammanco Frongia. Abbeville Press, 1999. 180 pp.; 300 b/w ills. Cloth $35.00 (0789206536)

McEwan, Colin. Ancient American Art in Detail. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2009. 144 pp.; 150 color ills. Cloth $21.95 (9780674033153)

Newsome, Elizabeth A. Trees of Paradise and Pillars of the World: The Serial Stela Cycle of “18-Rabbit-God K,” King of Copan. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2000. 294 pp.; 165 b/w ills. Cloth $45.00 (0292755724)

Pasztory, Esther. Jean-Frédéric Waldeck: Artist of Exotic Mexico. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 2012. 184 pp.; 96 ills. Cloth $55.00 (9780826347039)

Pasztory, Esther. Pre-Columbian Art. Cambridge University Press, 1997. 176 pp.; 121 color ills. Paper $18.95 (0521645514)

Pasztory, Esther. Teotihuacan: An Experiment in Living. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1996. 282 pp.; 19 color ills.; 77 b/w ills. Cloth $49.95 (080612847X)

Pasztory, Esther. Thinking with Things: Toward a New Vision of Art. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2009. 264 pp.; 145 b/w ills. Paper $24.95 (9780292706910)

Pohl, John M. D., and Claire L. Lyons. The Aztec Pantheon and the Art of Empire. Exh. cat. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2010. 112 pp.; 38 color ills.; 9 b/w ills. Cloth $25.00 (9781606060070)

Quilter, Jeffrey, and Luis Jaime Castillo B., eds. New Perspectives on Moche Political Organization. Dumbarton Oaks Pre-Columbian Symposia and Colloquia. Ed. Joanne Pillsbury. Washington D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 2010. 388 pp.; Many b/w ills. Cloth $45.00 (9780884023623)

Quilter, Jeffrey, and Mary Miller, eds. A Pre-Columbian World. Dumbarton Oaks, 2005. 395 pp.; 104 b/w ills. Cloth $55.00 (088402315X)

Quilter, Jeffrey. The Moche of Ancient Peru: Media and Messages. Peabody Museum Collection Series. Cambridge, MA: Peabody Museum Press, 2011. 154 pp.; 70 color ills.; 15 b/w ills. Paper $21.95 (9780873654067)

Schele, Linda, and Peter Mathews. The Code of Kings: The Language of Seven Sacred Maya Temples and Tombs.. Simon and Schuster, 1997. (068480106X)

Stone, Rebecca R. The Jaguar Within: Shamanic Trance in Ancient Central and South American Art. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2011. 243 pp.; 138 b/w ills. Cloth $60.00 (9780292726260)

Tate, Carolyn E. Reconsidering Olmec Visual Culture: The Unborn, Women, and Creation. The William and Bettye Nowlin Series in Art, History, and the Culture of the Western Hemisphere. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2012. 359 pp.; 223 ills. Cloth $65.00 (9780292728523)

Uriarte, Maria Teresa, ed. Pre-Columbian Architecture in Mesoamerica. Trans. Tanya Huntington. New York: Abbeville Press, 2010. 336 pp.; 315 color ills.; 294 b/w ills. Cloth $125.00 (9780789210456)

Vail, Gabrielle, and Christine Hernández, eds. Astronomers, Scribes, and Priests: Intellectual Interchange between the Northern Maya Lowlands and Highland Mexico in the Late Postclassic Period. Dumbarton Oaks Pre-Columbian Symposia and Colloquia. Ed. Joanne Pillsbury. Washington D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 2010. 431 pp.; 75 color ills.; 65 b/w ills. Cloth $49.95 (9780884023463)

Villela, Khristaan D. The Aztec Calendar Stone. Ed. Mary Ellen Miller. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2010. 344 pp.; 22 color ills.; 144 b/w ills. Cloth $49.00 (9781606060049)

Young-Sánchez, Margaret, and Denise Pahl Schaan. Marajó: Ancient Ceramics from the Mouth of the Amazon. Denver, CO: Denver Art Museum, 2011. 72 pp.; 65 color ills.; 3 b/w ills. Paper $25.00 (9780914738732)