Beauty and ugliness in Olmec monumental sculpture
Beauty and ugliness in Olmec monumental sculpture. Since our Western art tradition has put such a prize on naturalism, we tend to think that other civilizations valued it as much as we did and do. I contend that Olmec monumental art illustrates the opposite, and suggest that the Olmecs most apprecia...
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| Main Author: | Claude-François Baudez |
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Société des américanistes
2012-12-01
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| Series: | Journal de la Société des Américanistes |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/jsa/12294 |
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