Implications of Rock Art Aesthetics in Olmec Sculpture
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4373736 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jeanette Mollenhauer (0009-0006-0126-9230) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 521-541 |
| Publication date | 2024-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Latin American Antiquity (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1045-6635 • E-ISSN: 2325-5080 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/laq.2024.11 |
| OpenAlex | W4402011483 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 22 |
The development of freestanding stone sculpture by the Olmec people of Mesoamerica's Gulf lowlands has long been considered one of the defining artistic achievements of the Formative period. However, by the Middle Formative period the production of freestanding sculpture was often eclipsed by the contemporaneous creation of rock art outside the Gulf lowlands. In this article I argue that Gulf Olmec sculptors and audiences occasionally co-opted the aesthetic and ritual treatments of rock art at topographic shrines to construct and reinforce the sacred geographies of primary site cores. In so doing, Olmec elites converted the ideological power of the wild and the animate earth into a form of political capital
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Rock art · Sculpture · Visual arts · Archaeological Research and Protection · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies · History
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Social patterns in pre-classic Mesoamerica
Social formation and symbolic landscape
Ecologies of rock and art in northern New Mexico
A Culture of Stone
Llano del Jicaro
Creating Memory and Negotiating Power in the Olmec Heartland
The Lowland Maya Area. Three Millennia at the Human-Wildland Interface
Mexico South
The Geopolitics of Emerging Maya Rulers
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |