The Ancient Americas: Art from Sacred Landscapes explores the art and ideas that form part of the collective cultural heritage of the Americas. At a time when we have been considering the character of the world five hundred years ago- a world that, from a European perspective, suddenly became immensely larger, and, from a native American one, was profoundly shattered -it is fitting to acknowledge and celebrate the rich legacy that we inherited from our early indigenous civilizations. The archaeological record of Amerindian achievement begins many millennia before the arrival of Europeans, Africans, and Asians. Although early American peoples and their cultures - Mimbres, Olmec, Maya, Aztec, Tairona, Nazca, Tiwanaku, and Inca, to name some on which this book focuses - are separated from one another by hundreds of years and thousands of miles, each created great art to voice principles of universal meaning, and each had a fundamental vision of the integration of society and nature that guided all aspects of existence.

23.3cm x 30.5cm, 397 pages, Hardcover, 1999 (Condition: Good / Fair)

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