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A Visual Sonata at Teotihuacan

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 October 2008

Alisa LaGamma
Alisa LaGamma
Affiliation:
Department of the Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Fifth Avenue at 82nd Street, New York, NY, 10028, USA
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Abstract

This article is concerned with an analysis of the structure of mural paintings at Teotihuacan. It describes the preeminent role of borders that circumscribe Teotihuacan murals and breaks down the corpus of these borders into several different categories. Finally, it suggests how content and form may be combined to make a symbolic statement.

Type
Special Section: Imagery and Notation at Teotihuacan
Information
Ancient Mesoamerica , Volume 2 , Issue 2 , Fall 1991 , pp. 275 - 284
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1991

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