Artes gráficas mayas precolombinas: consideraciones semióticas sobre el continuo escritura-imagen

The writing-image association is one of the fundamental characteristics art in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica. This combination was particularly developed and used by Maya for almost 20 centuries. Far from constituting only an artistic process, joint use these two modes visual communication allowed transcription a very complex symbolic thought main tools propaganda (political) power elites. In this article, principles that govern pre-Hispanic scriptural iconological systems will be exposed, especially insisting on continuum comprised text image their expressions. Here examined discussed swinging mixing games between iconic or non-iconic figurativeness symbolism construction signs to generate meanings with which they entertain relationships different kinds, often metaphorical, based cultural conventions, rich teachings our understanding ancient Maya.