Teotihuacan

City of Water, City of Fire
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-0-520-29655-8
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 444 Seiten, Cloth Over Boards, Format (B × H): 253 mm x 312 mm, Gewicht: 3154 g

Founded in the first century BCE near a set of natural springs in an otherwise dry northeastern corner of the Valley of Mexico, the ancient metropolis of Teotihuacan was on a symbolic level a city of elements. With a multiethnic population of perhaps one hundred thousand, at its peak in 400 CE, it was the cultural, political, economic, and religious center of ancient Mesoamerica. A devastating fire in the city center led to a rapid decline after the middle of the sixth century, but Teotihuacan was never completely abandoned or forgotten; the Aztecs revered the city and its monuments, giving many of them the names we still use today.
 
Teotihuacan: City of Water, City of Fire examines new discoveries from the three main pyramids at the site—the Sun Pyramid, the Moon Pyramid, and, at the center of the Ciudadela complex, the Feathered Serpent Pyramid—which have fundamentally changed our understanding of the city’s history. With illustrations of the major objects from Mexico City’s Museo Nacional de Antropología and from the museums and storage facilities of the Zona de Monumentos Arqueológicos de Teotihuacan, along with selected works from US and European collections, the catalogue examines these cultural artifacts to understand the roles that offerings of objects and programs of monumental sculpture and murals throughout the city played in the lives of Teotihuacan’s citizens. 
 
Published in association with the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
 
Exhibition dates:

de Young, San Francisco, September 30, 2017–February 11, 2018
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), March 25–September 3, 2018
Phoenix Art Museum: October 6, 2018–January 27, 2019

Autoren/Hrsg.

Robb, Matthew

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte Präkolumbische Geschichte Amerikas
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: Präkolumbisch

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Directors’ Foreword
Max Hollein and Michael Govan
Foreword
María Cristina García Cepeda
Foreword
Diego Prieto Hernández

INTRODUCTION TO TEOTIHUACAN
THE SUN PYRAMID
THE MOON PYRAMID
THE APARTMENT COMPOUNDS
THE CIUDADELA AND THE FEATHERED
SERPENT PYRAMID
TEOTIHUACAN RELIGION
TEOTIHUACAN ART
MAP OF TEOTIHUACAN
CATALOGUE OF THE EXHIBITION WITH MAPS

Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments
List of Contributors
Map Sources and Image Credits

Über Autor(innen)

Matthew H. Robb is chief curator of the Fowler Museum at UCLA and former curator, Arts of the Americas, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (FAMSF).