Esther Pasztory

Esther Pasztory (1943-June 25, 2024) was a professor of Pre-Columbian art history at Columbia University.[1] From 1997 to her retirement in 2013, she held the Lisa and Bernard Selz Chair in Art History and Archaeology.[2][3] Among her many publications are the first art historical manuscripts on Teotihuacan and the Aztecs.[4][5][6] She has been the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship (1987–88) and a senior fellow of the board of Dumbarton Oaks.[2]

Biography and education

Pasztory was born in Hungary and immigrated to the United States in 1956 after the anti-Communist revolutions. She was initially educated at Vassar College but later transferred to Barnard College where she received her B.A. in art history in 1965. She remained at Columbia University and received her Ph.D. from the institution in 1971 for a dissertation entitled "The Murals of Tepantitla, Teotihuacan".[7][2] Her research into the Great Goddess of Teotihuacan has been influential and provided the basis for many later art historical studies.[8]

Publications

  • 1974, The iconography of the Teotihuacan Tlaloc
  • 1978, Middle Classic Mesoamerica, A.D. 400-700
  • 1983, Aztec art
  • 1997, Teotihuacan : an experiment in living
  • 1998, Pre-Columbian art
  • 2005, Thinking with things : toward a new vision of art
  • 2010, Jean-Frédéric Waldeck : artist of exotic Mexico
  • 2017, Visual Culture of the Ancient Americas : Contemporary Perspectives

References

  1. ^ "Esther Pasztory". Department of Art History & Archaeology, Columbia University.
  2. ^ a b c "Pasztory CV" (PDF). columbia.edu. Retrieved April 21, 2023.
  3. ^ "Esther Pasztory Festschrift - Department of Art History and Archaeology - Columbia University". Archived from the original on April 30, 2021.
  4. ^ Prior texts addressing the arts of these cultures assumed either an archeological or anthropological stance, as in the works of Rene Millon and other pioneers of Pre-Columbian studies.
  5. ^ Townsend, Richard F. (1998). Aztec Art (9780806125367): Esther Pasztory: Books. University of Oklahoma Press. ISBN 0806125365.
  6. ^ Pasztory, Esther (1997). Teotihuacan: an experiment in living - Google Books. University of Oklahoma Press. ISBN 9780806128474. Retrieved July 13, 2011.
  7. ^ "Esther Pasztory - Faculty - Department of Art History and Archaeology - Columbia University". Columbia.edu. Retrieved July 13, 2011.
  8. ^ Paulinyi, Zoltán (January 2006). "THE "GREAT GODDESS" OF TEOTIHUACAN: Fiction or Reality?". Ancient Mesoamerica. 17 (1): 1–15. doi:10.1017/S0956536106060020. ISSN 0956-5361. S2CID 163124002.


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