Word: mayan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MUSEUM OF PRIMITIVE ART-15 West 54th St. More than 50 examples of sculpture of primitive peoples, including the figure of a 6th century Mayan priest, one of the few examples of Mayan wood carving to have survived termites and jungle rot. Through...
...pubic regions are pocket guarantees of good crops. Perhaps the highest point of pre-conquest art-and the most exciting part of the Los Angeles show-was the painted room of the temple at Bonampak, a pyramid whose corbel vaults-arches made by stepping stones inward-display 8th century Mayan frescoes strangely linked in style with the flat, frontal reliefs of the ancient Egyptians. Their bold, sophisticated expressionism is so compatible with modern art that they suggest the eternal life of forms...
Simon Bolivar and Benito Juarez, and write essays contrasting the Aztec and Mayan civilizations...
Ceremonially blowing smoke to the four winds, Mayan priests puffed their pipes to please the gods; the Sioux passed around the calumet to seal the peace; 16th century Frenchman Jean Nicot (whose name is immortalized in the word nicotine) promoted pipe smoking as a sure cure for ulcers; and 19th century authors rhapsodized like Bulwer-Lytton: "A pipe, it is a great soother, a pleasant comforter. Blue devils fly before its honest breath. It ripens the brain, it opens the heart, and the man who smokes thinks like a Samaritan...
...what might come next? Like a Mayan Temple. "I think we are going back to the solid mass," said Harold Spitznagel of Sioux Falls, S.D. "In New York you can see some evidence of this, and the recent Boston City Hall competition proves the point even more sharply. That building looks like a Mayan temple." The winner (out of 256 entries) in the Boston competition is as exotically daring as anything Boston has ever seen. Designed by Gerhard Kallman, Noel Mc-Kinnell and Edward F. Knowles, all of Columbia University, it combines traditional Boston brick with reinforced concrete...