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Pre-Columbian Art

All titles added within the past twelve months. For a list of book titles in this category 1998 to the present, click here.


Arnade, Peter, and Michael Rocke, eds. Power, Gender, and Ritual in Europe and the Americas: Essays in Memory of Richard C. Trexler. Vol. 17. Series: Essays and Studies. Ed. Konrad Eisenbichler. Toronto: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, Victoria University in the University of Toronto, 2010. 364 pp.; 34 ills. Paper $37.00 (9780772720412)

DiCesare, Catherine R. Sweeping the Way: Divine Transformation in the Aztec Festival of Ochpaniztli. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2009. 248 pp.; 39 b/w ills. Cloth $55.00 (9780870819438)

Evans, Susan Toby, ed. Ancient Mexican Art at Dumbarton Oaks. Washington D.C. : Harvard University Press, 2010. 110 color ills.; 93 b/w ills. Cloth $70.00 (9780884023456)

Fash, William L., and Leonardo López Luján, eds. The Art of Urbanism: How Mesoamerican Kingdoms Represented Themselves in Architecture and Imagery. Washington, DC: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 2010. 576 pp.; Few color ills.; 130 b/w ills. Cloth $49.95 (9780884023449)

Finamore, Daniel, and Stephen D. Houston, eds. Fiery Pool: The Maya and the Mythic Sea. Exh. cat. New Haven: Yale University Press in association with Peabody Essex Museum, 2010. 328 pp.; 207 color ills.; 168 b/w ills. Cloth $65.00 (9780300161373)

Houston, Stephen, Claudia Brittenham, Cassandra Mesick, Alexandre Tokovinine, and Christina Warinner. Veiled Brightness: A History of Ancient Maya Color. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2010. 162 pp.; 24 color ills.; 25 b/w ills. Cloth $60.00 (9780292719002)

McEwan, Colin. Ancient American Art in Detail. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2009. 144 pp.; 150 color ills. Cloth $21.95 (9780674033153)

Quilter, Jeffrey, and Luis Jaime Castillo B., eds. New Perspectives on Moche Political Organization. Dumbarton Oaks Pre-Columbian Symposia and Colloquia. Ed. Joanne Pillsbury. Washington D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 2010. 388 pp.; Many b/w ills. Cloth $45.00 (9780884023623)

Vail, Gabrielle, and Christine Hernández, eds. Astronomers, Scribes, and Priests: Intellectual Interchange between the Northern Maya Lowlands and Highland Mexico in the Late Postclassic Period. Dumbarton Oaks Pre-Columbian Symposia and Colloquia. Ed. Joanne Pillsbury. Washington D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 2010. 431 pp.; 75 color ills.; 65 b/w ills. Cloth $49.95 (9780884023463)

Villela, Khristaan D. The Aztec Calendar Stone. Ed. Mary Ellen Miller. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2010. 344 pp.; 22 color ills.; 144 b/w ills. Cloth $49.00 (9781606060049)

Villela, Khristaan D., and Mary Ellen Miller, eds. The Aztec Pantheon and the Art of Empire. Exh. cat. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2010. 112 pp.; 38 color ills.; 9 b/w ills. Cloth $25.00 (9781606060070)