Download Made To Order: Painted Ceramics Of Ancient Teotihuacan Executed By Cynthia Conides Released As Hardcover

The ancient city of Teotihuacan, North Americas first metropolis, flourished for nearly eight centuries in central Mexico until its demise inC.
E. Known primarily for its massive architecture and monumental wall paintings, the cityand its dazzling artworkinspired awe in its time, and continues to do so today.
Made to Order, the first systematic study of more thanpainted portable artworks produced in Teotihuacan, offers a unique, deeply informed perspective on the cultural practices and

artistic techniques of the largest urban community in preHispanic Mesoamerica.


The painted vessels Cynthia Conides considersfeatured here in finely reproduced fullcolor photographsconstitute nearly the entire body of material now available for analysis.
With attention to their origins and provenance, wherever possible, the author views these objects from a range of vantage points, using ceramic chronologies to measure the changing characteristics and cultural significance of pictorial paintings on portable media.
Her approachranging from stylistic analysis and narrative theory to theoretical perspectives on artistic exchange among artisans living and working in a thriving urban settingreveals the importance of such objects to a city where social status, and the acquisition and display of its symbols, were paramount.
This perspective is in turn grounded in new interpretations of the religious, social, and ritual contexts in which the objects functioned,

The most complete analysis of both ceramics from excavations at Teotihuacan and those held in museum collections worldwide, Made to Order will become a standard source for specialists and students of preColumbian visual culture and archaeology, and a vital resource for those interested in crosscultural ceramic studies.

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