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MexicoSplendors of Thirty Centuries |
Texas Humanities Resource Center in collaboration with San Antonio Museum of Fine Arts The Metropolitan Museum Made possible by grants from The Rockefeller Foundation Texas Council for the Humanities Based on a major exhibition organized by the Metropolitan Museum Panel exhibit organized for THRC by Merle Wachter This is the on-line presentation of a photo-and-text panel exhibit in 24 panels, based on the great traveling exhibition, Mexico: Splendors of Thirty Centuries. The image above, featured on a poster published by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, is a flanged ceramic cylinder from the ancient Maya settlement of Palenque.The poster serves as panel 1 of the humanities exhibit. In this exhibit, the Texas Humanities Resource Center traces the organization of the major show, from the great works that represent Olmec, Maya, and Aztec cultures to the religious and aesthetic images that reflect a new culture, at first imported but then made truly Mexican, and it concludes with paintings by the great 20th century muralists, who sought to unite the two civilizations in their art. The poster is a visual acknowledgment that the Maya culture was one of the most sophisticated in the New World. It acknowledges also that this is an international exhibition, which involved much collaboration from national, regional, and local government agencies in Mexico, as well as the cooperation of museums, churches and individuals in Mexico, Europe, and the United States. |