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Pre-Columbian Mexico Art and Architecture.
Magazine article from: School Arts; 11/1/1995; ; 432 words
; ...minutes. The second part, "War and Human Sacrifice," runs twenty-two minutes. This program offers an interdisciplinary learning approach to cultural studies, art, social studies, humanities and other grade five through twelve classrooms.
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Danza Azteca.(pre-Columbian music and dance of the Aztecs)
Magazine article from: Latin Beat Magazine; 2/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...cycles of their ancestors. In pre-Columbian Mxico, the ritual dance ceremonies...Tetzcoco, and their symbolic art and architecture, gave expression to an ancient...alloys. The prevailing idea that pre-Columbian music followed a pentatonic scale...
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Brewery offers glimpse at pre-Columbian civilizations along Andes.
Newspaper article from: Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL); 11/14/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...into mysteries shrouding advanced pre-Columbian civilizations living along South...and had distinct traditions of art, architecture and governance. For reasons still...excavating last year. "In Incan and pre-Incan societies we know only...
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Y1K vs. Y2K.(the superior architecture prior to 1,000 AD: specific examples are described)
Magazine article from: House Beautiful; 1/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...Comparing the greatest architecture of circa 1000 A...the newspaper's architecture critic, Herbert...20th-century architecture. Though modernism...in the building art, durability is...California work on pre-Columbian architecture like...
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The Inca World: The Development of Pre-Columbian Peru, A.D. 1000-1534
Magazine article from: The Virginia Quarterly Review; 10/1/2000; ; 375 words
; ...was a singular empire. While it was a vast state united under one ruler, the Incan kingdom, as evidenced by art and architecture, displayed a vast range of distinctly local flavor. These various essays, which track the historical and cultural...
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Visual voices: heeding the microcultural contexts of art.
Magazine article from: Junctures: The Journal for Thematic Dialogue; 12/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...Discussions about art history are taking...efflorescence of Western art--particularly painting, sculpture and architecture. (2) James Elkins...that constitutes 'art': most images are...the architecture of Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica and the...
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The practice of art history in America.
Magazine article from: Daedalus; 3/22/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...more distantly) architecture. In any event...on the position of art history in the American...fact that the visual arts successfully lay...honorific designation as Art may lie--and this...and the performing arts of music and theater...architecture and pre-Columbian ...
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Art and Architecture of Viceregal Latin America, 1521-1821
Magazine article from: The Americas; 1/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...LITERARY STUDIES Art and Architecture of Viceregal Latin...colonial Latin American art, as well as those...Alexander Bailey's Art of Colonial Latin...considering the arts of both Spanish...examples of both pre-Columbian and post-colonial...
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Habitable sculptures; Kreeger Museum showcases Philip Johnson's last designs.(ARTS & CULTURE)(ARCHITECTURE)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times; 3/15/2008; 700+ words
; ...exhibit called Philip Johnson: Architecture as Art, at the Kreeger Museum, exploring...Johnson designed the 1967 house-art gallery for Geico insurance magnate...designed buildings include the pre-Columbian art museum at Dumbarton Oaks and 1300...
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New Dumbarton library: Venturi's way.(ARTS & CULTURE)(ARCHITECTURE)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times; 3/18/2006; 700+ words
; ...Contradiction in Architecture." This book shook...less" and that architecture could be enriched...popular and high-art influences. Tucked...Venturi's subtle architecture, a hybrid of the...Commission of Fine Arts, whose director...Dumbarton Oaks' pre-Columbian and Byzantine ...
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pre-Columbian art and architecture
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
pre-Columbian art and architecture Arts of Mexico, Central America, and the Andean region of South America before colonization...engineering of the Inca . Gold-working, weaving and sculpture were other important pre-Columbian arts.
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Mexican art and architecture
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Mexican art and architecture works of art and structures produced in the area...now the country of Mexico. Such arts were already highly developed in...and other native cultures, see pre-Columbian art and architecture . The Colonial...
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American art
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...articles on American architecture , North American Native art , pre-Columbian art and architecture...Spanish colonial art and architecture , and Canadian art and architecture...cultivate the fine arts extensively...have practiced in ...
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Wright, Frank Lloyd Lincoln
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
...Jones , the English Arts-and-Crafts movement...and Japanese architecture (prompted by the...founder-member of the Arts-and-Crafts Society...prominent English Arts-and-Craftsman...that anticipated Art Deco ornament. With...faintly reminiscent of pre-Columbian American ...
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sculpture
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
sculpture art of producing in three dimensions...Sumerian and Babylonian art ; Hittite art and architecture ; Phoenician art ). The sculptors of the ancient...were also symbolic in nature (see pre-Columbian art and architecture ; North American...
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