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430 pages : color illustrations ; 28 x 30 cm
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English
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"Casa mexicana offers an insight into the richness and diversity of the country's architecture and interior design today, from Mexico City's contemporary skyline, to the opulence of a newly restored XVI century sugar hacienda on the hills of Malinalco and the sensuality of the palapa homes on its Pacific coast." --
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319 pages, 1 unnumbered page : color illustrations, maps, plans ; 25 cm
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English
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La Ruta del Peregrino (the pilgrimage route) stretches a distance of 117 kilometers through the vast and imposing mountain range of Jalisco, Mexico. Approximately two million people participate each year in this religious phenomenon to meet the Virgin of Talpa as an act of devotion, faith, and gratitude. This book conveys the feeling of travelling on the pilgrim's route and encountering architectural monuments and their infrastructure, like shelters...
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1 videodisc (approximately 60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Follow a team of international scientists documenting an archeological sensation: the exploration of royal tombs beneath the ancient Mexican city of Teotihuacǹ. Not much is known about this long-lost society. When archeologists discover evidence of a sacrificial chamber beneath the famous Pyramid of the Feathered Serpent, they find the clues that may finally tell us who these mysterious people were.
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432 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm.
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English
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"This new interpretive history of Mexican art and architecture from the Spanish Conquest to the early decades of the twenty-first century is the most comprehensive introduction to the subject in fifty years. James Oles ranges widely across media and genres, offering new readings of paintings, murals, sculptures, buildings, prints, and photographs. He interprets major works by such famous artists as Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo, but also discusses...
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xi, 395 pages : illustrations, plans ; 24 x 32 cm
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English
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Following the Spanish conquest of Mexico in the early 1500s, Franciscan, Dominican, and Augustinian friars fanned out across the central and southern areas of the country, founding hundreds of mission churches and monasteries to evangelize the Native population. This book documents more than 120 of these remarkable sixteenth-century sites in duotone black-and-white photographs. Virtually unknown outside Mexico, these complexes unite architecture,...
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