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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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