Clancy, Flora Simmons

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CLANCY, Flora Simmons

PERSONAL:

Female; children: Raphael. Education: Pratt Institute, B.F.A., 1964; Yale Unversity, Ph.D., 1980.

ADDRESSES:

Office—Department of Art and Art History, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131. E-mail—flora@unm.edu.

CAREER:

Colgate University, Hamilton, NY, lecturer, 1973-78; University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, 1979—, currently professor of art history. Contributor to symposia on Mayan art and architecture.

AWARDS, HONORS:

Dumbarton Oaks junior fellowship, 1978-79; National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship, 1982-83; Dumbarton Oaks fellowship, 1986-87; National Endowment for the Humanities summer institute fellowships, 1991 and 1993.

WRITINGS:

Maya: Treasures of an Ancient Civilization, photographs by Stuart Rome, H. N. Abrams (New York, NY), 1985.

(Editor, with Peter D. Harrison) Vision and Revision in Maya Studies, University of New Mexico Press (Albuquerque, NM), 1990.

Pyramids, Smithsonian Books (Washington, DC), 1994.

Sculpture in the Ancient Maya Plaza: The Early Classic Period, University of New Mexico Press (Albuquerque, NM), 1999.

Contributor of scholarly articles to periodicals.

SIDELIGHTS:

Flora Simmons Clancy is a scholar of the art and architecture of the Mayan civilization of Mexico and Central America. Clancy has written about the sculptures and construction of Mayan pyramids and other remaining artistic treasures of that ancient civilization. To quote K. A. Dixon in a Choice review of Sculpture in the Ancient Maya Plaza: The Early Classic Period, Clancy has made "an important addition to Maya studies" through her writings and presentations. In an American Antiquity review of Vision and Revision in Maya Studies, Aleksandar Bŏković called the book a "very useful summary of the work in the last decade, but also a book that can pose questions for future research." Bŏković concluded that the work "is without any doubt the best book on Maya studies."

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

American Antiquity, July, 1993, Aleksandar Bŏković, review of Vision and Revision in Maya Studies, pp. 591-592.

Antiquity, December, 1994, George Stuart, review of Vision and Revision in Maya Studies, p. 867.

Choice, February, 1992, C. L. Riley, review of Vision and Revision in Maya Studies, p. 932; November, 1999, K. A. Dixon, review of Sculpture in the Ancient Maya Plaza: The Early Classic Period, pp. 582-583.

Journal of Interdisciplinary History, autumn, 1992, David Webster, review of Vision and Revision in Maya Studies, pp. 431-433.

Latin American Research Review, summer, 1993, Barbara Tedlock, review of Vision and Revision in Maya Studies, p. 154.