Saint Louis Beacon
February 16, 2011
SAINT LOUIS - In their new exhibition, "Fiery Pool: The Maya and the Mythic Sea," the St. Louis Art Museum stages a spectacular portal into another world. Monumental and ornate, the fiberglass cast of a temple facade from Caracol in Belize certainly has the requisite "wow!" factor. But it is also dense with water imagery, hinting at the themes that the exhibition so richly and so innovatively explores. Beginning with this dramatic introduction, says Matthew Robb, assistant curator of ancient American and Native American art, the exhibition offers a new take on this old civilization, one that shows how central water was to the Maya understanding of life, death and the cosmos and "how pervasive water imagery is throughout the various media and across time." [link]
Thursday, 17 February 2011
Inside the Fiery Pool: Art Museum explores the Maya fascination with water
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