Angela Herren Rajagopalan

Portraying the Aztec Past

The Codices Boturini, Azcatitlan, and Aubin

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Offering the first extended comparison of three closely related painted manuscripts from colonial Mexico, this book reveals how differences in their materials and composition show the evolution of the native pictorial tradition.

Produktdetails

• Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas
• Verlag: University of Texas Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 279mm x 215mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 688g
• ISBN-13: 9781477316078
• ISBN-10: 1477316078
• Artikelnr.: 52415612

Autorenporträt

Angela Herren Rajagopalan is an associate professor of art history at the University of North Carolina.

Inhaltsangabe

* List of Illustrations and Tables
* Acknowledgments
* Chapter 1. Introduction: Portraying the Aztec Past
* Chapter 2. Codex Boturini: A Pictographic Paradigm
* Chapter 3. Master and Apprentice: The Multiple Artistic Hands in
Codex Azcatitlan
* Chapter 4. Don Martín Ecatzin: Codex Azcatitlan’s Cosmic Hero
* Chapter 5. Traitors, Intrigue, and the Cosmic Cycle in Codex
Azcatitlan
* Chapter 6. Codex Aubin and the Influence of Printed Books
* Chapter 7. Conclusion: Central Mexican Manuscript Painting in
Transition
* Epilogue. Life after Production
* Appendix 1. Translation of the Nahuatl Glosses in Codex Azcatitlan
* Appendix 2. Translation of the Nahuatl Text in Codex Aubin
* Notes
* Bibliography
* Index