Arnold Bauer

The Search for the Codex Cardona

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Produktbeschreibung

The Codex Cardona is a Mexican "painted book" which may date from the 16th century and has been assessed inconclusively by such places as Sotheby's, the Getty, and Stanford University. This book describes the author's quest to determine the ori

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""The Search for the Codex Cardona" is a terrific read. I could hardly put it down. If the Codex is real, and I came to believe that it probably "is" authentic, then it is the most important document of the early colonial world to have come to light since the Florentine Codex surfaced in Italy in the late nineteenth century."--Mary Miller, Dean of Yale College and author of "The Art of Mesoamerica: From Olmec to Aztec"

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 154mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 305g
• ISBN-13: 9780822346142
• ISBN-10: 0822346141
• Artikelnr.: 26553012

Autorenporträt

Arnold J. Bauer is Professor Emeritus in the Department of History at the University of California, Davis.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface ix
Acknowledgments xi
1. The Crocker Lab 1
2. A World of Painted Books 10
3. Early Doubts 24
4. Sotheby's of London 30
5. The Getty 41
6. Sloan Ranger 52
7. Nights in the Gardens of Coyoacan 63
8. A Mysterious Affidavit 72
9. Seville 78
10. Christie's of New York 88
11. El Palacio del Marqués 97
12. Librería Zócalo 104
13. An Internet Posting 117
14. The Architect's Studio 125
15. Pasaje de las Flores 139
16. The High End 146
17. Ibiza 153
18. A Madrid Anticuario 162
19. Resolution 167
Notes 171
Bibliography 173
Index 177