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-Creation Story – Mixcoatl (Communication with Ancestors, 7 caves)
-Pilgrimage center (Temple of Quetzalcoatl)
-*International style (ceramic art)
--Shift to pictographic style: distribution of art follows marriage ties
-Ruled by confederacies (house dwellings) |
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-Reading: Pohl 1999 “Lintel Paintings”
-Religious Center – (Lintel paintings with Zapotec, Mixtec and Tolteca Chichimeca creation stories)
--Marriage
-Art trade (portable art)
--Ancestral lineage
--Codices
-Known for weaving designs |
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-Reading: Burger 1992
--“religious Pilgrimage Center”
-Lanzón: primary god
-Staff god
-*Landscape and architecture
--Built in between rainforest and sea
-Duality: U shaped site, black and white portal, male and female
-*Long distance trade
-Shells
-Black and white marble |
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-*Architecture and landscape (mountain lion)
--Ceque lines (divide people into barrios)
--These liens also corresponded to geographical features in four directions
•Figurines represented elite persons and suggests one ruler |
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-International style/portable art – stirrup vessels/pictographic
-Naturalism – specific portraiture – indicates one ruler
-Fine line painting – depicting actual people/events/huacas
--Themes of art; ritual militarism
-Huacas and religion
-Imitative style – stirrup vessel
-Landscape – animal vessels |
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-Reading: Conrad 1982
-*Abstract
--No portraiture
-Burial chambers and architecture
--Made it clear that there was a succession of rulers
-According to reading – one ruler at the time
-According to Pohl no centralized elite
-Influence in architecture from southwest |
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-*Mutualism
-Innovative style – of gold work from Moche
--Copador painted faux writing (Maya)
--Nicoya – Olmec jade making it their own
-Trade is then dominated in Central America as seen through the shift from turquoise and gold |
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-Jalisco and Nayarit
-International Style – new art form of part communication/part narrative due to confederacy
-Shaft tomb burials
-Imitative style
-Narratives from codices on art
-Art exemplified trade |
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