The Aztec empire / curated by Felipe Solís.

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes (Mexico)
Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (Mexico)
Other Authors: Solís Olguín, Felipe R.
Language:English
Published: New York, N.Y. : Guggenheim Museum Publications, [2004], ©2004.
Subjects:
Aztecs > Antiquities > Exhibitions.
Aztec art > Exhibitions.
Aztecs > Religion > Exhibitions.
Aztecs > Origin > Exhibitions.
Aztecs > History > Exhibitions.
Aztecs > Social life and customs > Exhibitions.
Mexico > Antiquities > Exhibitions.
Genre:
Exhibitions.
Physical Description:375 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 34 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction / Felipe Solís
  • Art in the Aztec empire: Traces of an identity / Beatriz de la Fuente
  • The Aztecs and the natural world: The basin of Mexico as a habitat for pre-Hispanic farmers / William T. Sanders
  • The harmony between people and animals in the Aztec world / Mercedes de la Garza
  • The Aztecs and their ancestors: Precolumbian man and his cosmos / Felipe Solís
  • Origins and forms of art in the Aztec empire / Felipe Solís
  • The Olmec / Ann Cyphers
  • Teotihuacan / Linda Manzanilla
  • Tula and the Tolteca / Richard A. Diehl
  • The Templo Mayor: Excavations at the Templo Mayor / Eduardo Matos Moctezuma
  • The Templo Mayor at Tenochtitlan / Juan Alberto Román Berrelleza
  • Aztec religion: Aztec religion : creation, sacrifice, and renewal / Karl Taube
  • Axis mundi / Roberto Velasco Alonso
  • Gods and rituals / Guilhem Olivier
  • Painted books and calendars / Elizabeth Hill Boone
  • Aztec society: Nobles and commoners / Michael E. Smith
  • Everyday life in Tenochtitlan / Michael E. Smith
  • The Aztec empire: The Aztec empire / Richard F. Townsend
  • The provinces of the Aztec empire / Frances F. Berdan
  • The population of the Mexico and Toluca valleys / Perla Valle Pérez
  • The Puebla and Tlaxcala valleys / Verónica Velásquez
  • The domain of Coatlapan / José Luis Rojas Martinez
  • The Mixteca / Nelly M. Robles Garcia
  • The Huaxteca and the Totonaca / Felipe Solís
  • The Tarascan empire: The Tarascan empire / Phil C. Weigand
  • Tarascan art / Roberto Velasco Alonso
  • The fall of the empires: The conquest as seen by the Mexica-Aztecs / Miguel León-Portilla
  • The Spanish conquest of Tenochtitlan / Pablo Escalante Gonzalbo
  • Catalogue checklist
  • Bibliography.