| PODCASTS: FIFTY-NINTH A. W. MELLON LECTURES IN THE FINE ARTS | | |
|  Art and Representation in the Ancient New World
Mary Miller, dean of Yale College and Sterling Professor of History of Art, Yale University
Originally delivered at the National Gallery of Art in 2010, this five-part lecture series offers an overview of the field of pre-Colombian art history, with detailed discussion of time, beauty, and truth in the visual cultures of ancient and colonial Mesoamerica.
The Shifting Now of the Pre-Columbian Past
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Seeing Time, Hearing Time, Placing Time
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The Body of Perfection, the Perfection of the Body
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Representation and Imitation
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Envisioning a New World
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| | |  | Mary Miller is the dean of Yale College. She earned her AB from Princeton in 1975 and her PhD from Yale in 1981. A member of the Yale faculty since 1981, she was the Vincent J. Scully Professor of History of Art until her appointment as Sterling Professor of History of Art in 2008. At Yale, she has served as chair of the department of history of art, chair of the Council on Latin American Studies, director of graduate studies in archaeological studies, and as a member of the steering committee of the Women Faculty Forum at Yale.
A specialist in the art of the ancient New World, Miller curated Courtly Art of the Ancient Maya, an exhibition that took place in 2004 at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, and the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. She coauthored the catalogue of the same title with Simon Martin. She is also completing an archaeological project to document and reconstruct the Maya wall paintings at Bonampak, Mexico. Miller is the author of The Aztec Calendar Stone (with Khristaan Villela, 2010); Maya Art and Architecture (1999); The Gods and Symbols of Ancient Mexico and the Maya: An Illustrated Dictionary of Mesoamerican Religion (with Karl Taube, 1993); The Art of Mesoamerica: From Olmec to Aztec (1986); The Murals of Bonampak (1986); and The Blood of Kings: Dynasty and Ritual in Maya Art (with Linda Schele, 1986), winner of the Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Award of the College Art Association. Her many articles address questions of Aztec and Maya art, as well as the historiography of pre-Columbian art.
For her work on the Maya, Miller has won national recognition including a Guggenheim Fellowship and election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1994. She will deliver the Slade Lectures at Cambridge University in 2014–2015. |
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