Book Talk: Vital Signs: The Visual Culture of Maya Writing

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Stephen Houston delves into how the Maya expressed sound and meaning through hieroglyphs in his newest book, Vital Signs: The Visual Culture of Maya Writing. Join the author for a conversation with Thomas B. F. Cummins, director of Dumbarton Oaks. Vital Signs is based on Houston’s A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts, delivered at the National Gallery of Art in 2023.

A book signing will follow the conversation, with copies available for purchase.

Stephen Houston

Stephen Houston serves as the Dupee Family Professor of Social Sciences at Brown University. He has prepared many books and articles, including Temple of the Night Sun, The Life Within: Classic Maya and the Matter of Permanence (winner of the PROSE Award for Art History and Criticism), The Gifted Passage: Young Men in Classic Maya Art and Text, and A Maya Universe in Stone.

Thomas B. F. Cummins

Thomas B. F. Cummins is the director of Dumbarton Oaks and the Dumbarton Oaks Professor of the History of Pre-Columbian and Colonial Art at Harvard University. His two most recent edited volumes are Global Gold: Aesthetics, Material Desires, Economies in the Late Medieval and Early Modern World and Sacred Matter: Animacy and Authority in the Americas (with Steve Kosiba and John Wayne Janusek).

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