Stories in Red and Black - Pictorial Histories of the Aztecs and Mixtecs

Informationen zum Autor A recipient of Mexico's Order of the Aztec Eagle, Elizabeth Hill Boone holds the Martha and Donald Robertson Chair in Latin American Art at Tulane University. Klappentext This copiously illustrated book offers the first comprehensive analysis of the Mexican painted history as an intellectual, documentary, and pictorial genre. Zusammenfassung The Aztecs and Mixtecs of ancient Mexico recorded their histories pictorially in images painted on hide, paper, and cloth. This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the Mexican painted history as an intellectual, documentary, and pictorial genre. It explores how the Mexican historians conceptualized and painted their past. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface1. Configuring the Past2. History and Historians3. Writing in Images4. Structures of History5. Mixtec Genealogical Histories6. Lienzos and Tiras from Oaxaca and Southern Puebla7. Stories of Migration, Conquest, and Consolidation in the Central Valleys8. Aztec Altepetl Annals9. Histories with a PurposeNotesBibliographyIndex

Product details

• Authors: Elizabeth Hill Boone
• Publisher: University Of Texas Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.02.2000
• EAN: 9780292719897
• ISBN: 978-0-292-71989-7
• No. of pages: 312
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics