Veiled brightness : a history of ancient Maya color /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Austin :
University of Texas Press,
2009.
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Table of contents only |
| ISBN: | 9780292719002 (cl. : alk. paper) 0292719000 (cl. : alk. paper) |
Table of Contents:
- Seeing color. Sensing color ; Theorizing color in the West ; Comparative theories of color ; Colorizing Mesoamerica ; A book on Maya color
- Naming color. Simplex terms ; Complex terms ; Organization of colors ; Maya color terms (Red ; White ; Black ; Yellow ; Yax) ; Maya terminology
- Making color. Prime colorants (Feathers ; Flowers ; Shells ; Stones) ; Manufactured colorants (Dyes ; Pigments and paints ; Ceramics : a special case) ; Making Maya color
- Using color. Approaches and limitations ; The Preclassic and Early Classic (Red, black, and white ; The Late Preclassic : new colors ; The Early Classic ; Color use in the Preclassic and Early Classic) ; The Late Early Classic and the rise of Maya blue (Experimetns in ceramics ; The rise of Maya blue ; Architectural color ; The conservative colors of death ; Color use in the Late Early Classic) ; The Late Classic : naturalism and its dissenters (The naturalistic revolution ; Color and dimension ; Rejections of polychromy ; Color use in the Late Classic) ; The Terminal Classic : rupture and reinventions ; The Postclassic : the colors of the gods (Early Postclassic : five basic colors ; Late Postclassic : the "international style" ; The "blue-and-black style" ; Color contrasts ; Color use in the Postclassic) ; Using color
- Epilogue: A history of Maya color
- Appendix: Dyes and organic colorants of the Maya and Aztecs.