1st reprint: unam, Mexico, 2014 Size: 8.25 in x 8.25 in ISBN: 978-607-02-4070-6 MSRP $45.95 USD By the same author Olmeca: Balance and Perspective. Memoir of the First Round Table María Teresa Uriarte, coordinator Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Pre-Hispanic Mural Painting in Mexico V. Cacaxtla María Teresa Uriarte, coordinator Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México From the Old California to the Atacama Desert María Teresa Uriarte, coordinator Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Caniem Award for Editorial Art. 2011 Hist oria y art e de la Baja California History and Art of Baja California María Teresa Uriarte “A most valuable contribution, appreciated when the reader reaches its essence, the mural paintings: here is the context in which the people lived in Baja California, a plurality of cultures, of nomad settlers going from one place to the other, distinguishable among them and independent from the rest” María Nieves Noriega de Autrey • A study that combines the historical, anthropological and aesthetical approach, in order to deal with the prehistoric ancient indigenous culture in Baja California. • It features a detailed prologue written by Miguel Leon-Portilla. Seven thousand five hundred years of rock painting in Baja California, and the cultural richness of the indigenous peoples who inhabited the region before the arrival of Spaniards, highly contrast with the precarious weather conditions and the oblivion by historians. The book constitutes an integral analysis of this Mexican region, which contributes an exceptional aesthetic analysis of mural prehistoric painting found in its caves. About the author María Teresa Uriarte holds a phd degree in Art History by the National Autonomous University of Mexico. She is a member of the Aesthetical Research Institute in the same Institution, which she directed from 1998 to 2006. She is also a member of the National Research System, as well as the director of the Seminar of Mural Pre-Hispanic Painting in Mexico. She has been author and co-author of several publications, from which Pre-Hispanic Art in the Pacific Ocean Region (1982) outstands. Author’s Awards Caniem Award to Editorial Art 2011 for From Old California to the Atacama Desert. Member of the Government Junta of unam. Coordinator of the Pre-Hispanic Mural Painting in Mexico, which is set to publish the corresponding volumes to Cacaxtla and the Huasteca. Currently Coordinator of Cultural Promotion at unam. Readership • Art Historians • Anthropologists, ethnologists and archaeologists • Painters and art students Pre-Hispanic culture UNAM Foreign Rights 2015 11
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