Volume 34, Number 3 · February 26, 1987
Food of the Gods
By Octavio Paz, Translated by Eliot Weinberger
The Blood of Kings: A New Interpretation of Maya Art 17–August 24, 1986), and the Cleveland Museum of Art (October 8–December 14, 1986)
An exhibition at the Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas (May
The Blood of Kings: Dynasty and Ritual in Maya Art Worth)
by Linda Schele, by Mary Ellen Miller
George Braziller (in association with the Kimbell Art Museum, Fort, 335 pp., $28.00 (paper)
Our vision of the Maya world has been transformed by recent iconographic and epigraphic studies—a string of discoveries that has culminated in an extraordinary exhibition of Maya dynastic and ritual art, organized by Linda Schele and Mary Ellen Miller under the auspices of the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth. Schele and Miller also wrote the accompanying book, The Blood of Kings, a work as remarkable for its text as for the photographs and drawings that illustrate it.
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