A Study of Classic Maya Sculpture Author:Tatiana Proskouriakoff Classic Maya sculpture was the finest developed in the native New World. Much of it occurs on monuments which are also dated by the elaborate and precise "Long Count." Whatever the correlation of Maya with Christian calendar may have been, the relative time intervalbetween the execution of particular Maya sculptures is accordingly known, provide... more »d their inscribed dates remain legible. We have therefore for the Maya an almost unparalleled example of an ancient sculpture that went on for five to six centuries with a large proportion of its products exactly dated, a situation, as it were, made to order for the historian and theoretician of art development. Tatiana Proskouriakoff was a sculptress in her own right first, and learned about the Maya later, inher many years with the Carnegie Institution. Her book is as valuable and important as one might hope it to be. Anything Maya is notoriously complex, and Miss Proskouriakoff's dissection is so searching as to cut very fine. Basically, this is nota chronological or calendrical investigation but a highly documented study of the history of a great art.« less