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If you're on the West Coast over the next couple of months, take a trip over to San Francisco. Starting on the 19th of February, the deYoung Museum in Golden Gate Park will be featuring an exhibit of those colossal stone heads, as well as 100 additional artifacts culled from Mexican national collections and 25 other museums!
Some of the large-scale works on display will be
* Monument Q (colossal head) from Tres Zapotes??carved from a distinctive porphyritic basalt and weighing over eight tons, this was the second colossal head to be discovered at Tres Zapotes.
* Colossal Head 5 from San Lorenzo??discovered in 1946, it was created using a combination of polishing and fine and rough hammering.
* Stela 1 (female figure) from La Venta??standing over eight feet tall, the stela presents a surprisingly naturalistic female figure in a pleated skirt standing in a niche.
* Monuments 7?9 (twin figures and jaguar) from Loma del Zapote-El Azuzul??a sculptural representation of two young Olmec rulers, twins, paying homage to a feline-jaguar deity.
The Kunz Axe (votive axe) depicting a supernatural being whose physical features are drawn from multiple sources in the natural world.
Full press release can be read here. It also includes a listing of the lectures to be held opening day.
The Latin American Studies site has a nice collection of Olmec art and writings for your edification. Check it out here.
Wikipedia entry is here.
Some of the large-scale works on display will be
* Monument Q (colossal head) from Tres Zapotes??carved from a distinctive porphyritic basalt and weighing over eight tons, this was the second colossal head to be discovered at Tres Zapotes.
* Colossal Head 5 from San Lorenzo??discovered in 1946, it was created using a combination of polishing and fine and rough hammering.
* Stela 1 (female figure) from La Venta??standing over eight feet tall, the stela presents a surprisingly naturalistic female figure in a pleated skirt standing in a niche.
* Monuments 7?9 (twin figures and jaguar) from Loma del Zapote-El Azuzul??a sculptural representation of two young Olmec rulers, twins, paying homage to a feline-jaguar deity.
The Kunz Axe (votive axe) depicting a supernatural being whose physical features are drawn from multiple sources in the natural world.
Full press release can be read here. It also includes a listing of the lectures to be held opening day.
The Latin American Studies site has a nice collection of Olmec art and writings for your edification. Check it out here.
Wikipedia entry is here.