Esther Pasztory
Autor de Pre-Columbian Art
Obras de Esther Pasztory
Obras relacionadas
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Género
- female
- Nacionalidad
- Hungary (birth)
USA - Educación
- Columbia University (PhD)
- Ocupaciones
- art historian (Pre-Columbian)
Miembros
Reseñas
También Puede Gustarte
Autores relacionados
Estadísticas
- Obras
- 8
- También por
- 1
- Miembros
- 183
- Popularidad
- #118,259
- Valoración
- 3.6
- Reseñas
- 2
- ISBNs
- 13
Pasztory shows you how to shed your internalized assumptions about non-Western art and opens your eyes to issues you wouldn't have come up with on your own, such as the impact of written language on the status of art and the reasons why some groups painted in caves while others made masks or carved monuments. She also explains why it took so long to appreciate the artistic achievements of Pre-Columbian Peru as opposed to the works of the Mayans. And you'll learn why realistic representations are not an evolution from abstract representations--and why they're not even more accurate. You'll never see works in a museum the same way again.… (más)