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...Izumi Shimada The Rural Foundation for Urbanism: Economic and Stylistic Interaction between Rural and Urban Communities in Eighth-Century Peru . By Isbell William Harris . Urbana , 1977 . University of Illinois Press . Maps. Illustrations. Diagrams. Figures. Cloth . $12.50...

... to stylistic interpretations, in art historical terms. Anything that was “savage” and could not be clearly understood according to Western (Greek, Roman, Renaissance) definitions was relegated to the primitive category. The early decades of this century saw the advent of both a more positive definition...

... by stylistic criteria that assume naturalism must necessarily degenerate. Farfetched interpretations abound. The presence of a cross is held to indicate Olmec influence even when chronology seems opposed (see p. 201). Red bands on the face of a figurine “suggest tears” (p. 100) and rain symbolism (why...

... study for future research,” its “occasional stylistic pretensions and preachments on methodology” notwithstanding ( HAHR 49:3 [May 1969], pp. 544–46). Twenty-six years on, the book retains its freshness, vitality, and significance, but it also brings a sense of déjà vu to an academic community now...

... the New World realized that they had an infinite source of inspiration at home. The result was paintings that combined the advanced stylistic ideas of the modern Parisian art scene with a personal vocabulary culled from the artists’ own experiences and native environments. These styles were sometimes...

... by Joseph Baird, which identifies the subject and comments on its position in the stylistic analysis and the historical sequence. Other parts of Baird’s text discuss the architectural history as a whole, Spanish origins, special Mexican styles, and the biographies of some major architects...

..., such as the Capilla del Rosario at Santo Domingo in Puebla (completed in 1690), with its colorful allover interior stucco sculptured decoration. Mullen tracks stylistic development from Plateresque through Baroque and notes the various styles that have been associated with indigenous production and iconography. Most...

...William O. Autry There is much in this book for anyone interested in stylistic analyses of native pictorial manuscripts, particularly the colonial-period codices of the Basin of Mexico. Nevertheless, more recent studies have revealed some errors and have proceeded beyond examinations of form...

... to be adapted if those quite necessary elements of stylistic demand and aesthetic satisfaction were to be met. She then passes to the setting in which this dramatic style developed. It was indeed rather a potpourri from the sixteenth-century Spaniard’s Aristotelian viewpoint, since in this highly complex...

..., in turn, the origins, mechanics, and performance practices of the bandonion; the “matrix listening” approach to early tango recordings, focusing on Ángel Villoldo; the stylistic traits of two significant (and quite different) tango orchestras of the Golden Age (1940s and 1950s), those of Juan D'Arienzo...

... on the contributions of three sixteenth-century bishops—Francisco de Toral (in the 1560s), Diego de Landa (in the 1570s), and Gregorio de Montalvo (in the 1580s)—and looks at formal and stylistic precedents for the building in the religious architecture of Andalusia. Bretos dwells at length on the formal relationship...

... to the present, artists, critics, and scholars have documented the early, “heroic” history of Mexican muralism, its stylistic and ideological manifestations in the 1920s and 1930s, and its impact on engaged figurative art, loosely termed “social realism,” in the Americas to 1945, primarily through the careers...

...). According to Webster, however, authorities attributed sculptures to Caspicara with little or no real evidence, so she examines archival materials and also focuses on iconographic types, stylistic characteristics, and visual effects to determine the sculptures that he likely completed (p. 7). Although...

... the pioneer work of W. H. Holmes (1882–1883). Of note is MacCurdy’s ceramic analysis which incorporated both manufacturing technique and surface treatment. This pottery classification remains valid today. MacCurdy’s observations on stylistic change in grave goods led to his recognition of the autochthonous...

... and southern Mexico. There is no general conclusion except a statement that San Cristóbal is stylistically more similar to Antigua, Guatemala, than to Oaxaca, Mexico. ...

... treatment of sociopolitical topics, rather than with reference to rhetorical, stylistic, or structural accomplishments. By contrast to recent research by “committed” critics who nevertheless are using structuralist models for dealing with the issues of poetic discourse, Bizzarro’s study represents a return...

... further studies, whether stylistic, aesthetic, sociological, or historical, of his great artistic contribution. ...

... were found in the same grave, so that he gets possibly a picture of relative chronology. The distinction of ceramic groups such as polychrome, white linear or brown incised, red brown and bisque ware make it possible to determine the stylistic interrelation or succession and the relationship to further...

...D. G. The book is a stylistic horror—an outline with vague citations filling in the gaps. The topic sentences have been transformed into the overabundant boldface subtitles; important details are italicized. The conclusions are equally incredible, reminiscent of a third-rate Hollywood movie...

... imposes certain implicit constraints. A more thorough discussion of the nature of the sample as well as the relationship between funerary context and the ongoing cultural system is vital. The core of her method lies in rigorous chronological control based on a sequence of “stylistic units...