O’Neil demonstrates that stelae-oftentimes perceived to be alive or containing a “vital essence”-promoted certain kinds of reactions at Piedras Negras (3, 15). Delving into the experiential nature of sculpture and architecture, she considers how audiences interacted with the stelae, altars, and carved panels that embellished their environments. In Engaging Ancient Maya Sculpture at Piedras Negras, Guatemala, O’Neil examines the dialectical relationship between sculpture and culture in exploring the function of stone monuments and the ways they shape the nature of their performance and reception. In doing so, they further refine our understanding of Maya monuments and their audiences through the careful examination of formal qualities employed at specific moments and places. Each author builds on current trends in scholarship focused on spatial and experiential analysis.
Parmington contends that the display of thematically specific imagery can be connected with varying degrees of restriction and particular viewers. O’Neil argues that Classic Maya monuments played active roles in facilitating interactions between objects and beholders. Both authors focus on viewer experience as an essential feature of the ways art and architecture construct ideology and manipulate onlookers’ movements. Both scholars take up the topic of the built environment during the Late Classic Period (seventh to ninth century CE) and anchor their analyses to sites near the Usumacinta River (O’Neil studies Piedras Negras in Petén, Guatemala, while Parmington examines Palenque in Chiapas, Mexico). O’Neil’s Engaging Ancient Maya Sculpture at Piedras Negras, Guatemala and Alexander Parmington’s Space and Sculpture in the Classic Maya City introduce elements of time and space in discussing how Maya art and architecture operated and expressed meaning. Performance Art/Performance Studies/Public Practice.Museum Practice/Museum Studies/Curatorial Studies/Arts Administration.Drawings/Prints/Work on Paper/Artistc Practice.Digital Media/New Media/Web-Based Media.Architectural History/Urbanism/Historic Preservation.Subject, Genre, Media, Artistic Practice.
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