Author: Maarten Jansen
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004193588
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 598

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This handbook surveys and describes the illustrated Mixtec manuscripts that survive in Europe, the United States and Mexico.

Author: Jorge Enciso
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486200841
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 194

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Numerous primitive designs from early Mexican cultures are reproduced to demonstrate native decorative ingenuity and inspire modern artists and designers

Author: Glenn F. Read
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Manuscripts, Mexican (Pre-Columbian)
Languages : en
Pages : 30

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Author: Elizabeth Hill Boone
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292783124
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 552

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The Aztecs and Mixtecs of ancient Mexico recorded their histories pictorially in images painted on hide, paper, and cloth. The tradition of painting history continued even after the Spanish Conquest, as the Spaniards accepted the pictorial histories as valid records of the past. Five Pre-Columbian and some 150 early colonial painted histories survive today. This copiously illustrated book offers the first comprehensive analysis of the Mexican painted history as an intellectual, documentary, and pictorial genre. Elizabeth Hill Boone explores how the Mexican historians conceptualized and painted their past and introduces the major pictorial records: the Aztec annals and cartographic histories and the Mixtec screenfolds and lienzos. Boone focuses her analysis on the kinds of stories told in the histories and on how the manuscripts work pictorially to encode, organize, and preserve these narratives. This twofold investigation broadens our understanding of how preconquest Mexicans used pictographic history for political and social ends. It also demonstrates how graphic writing systems created a broadly understood visual "language" that communicated effectively across ethnic and linguistic boundaries.

Author: Lori Boornazian Diel
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 1477316736
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 285

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Some sixty years after the Spanish conquest of Mexico, a group of Nahua intellectuals in Mexico City set about compiling an extensive book of miscellanea, which was recorded in pictorial form with alphabetic texts in Nahuatl clarifying some imagery or adding new information altogether. This manuscript, known as the Codex Mexicanus, includes records pertaining to the Aztec and Christian calendars, European medical astrology, a genealogy of the Tenochca royal house, and an annals history of pre-conquest Tenochtitlan and early colonial Mexico City, among other topics. Though filled with intriguing information, the Mexicanus has long defied a comprehensive scholarly analysis, surely due to its disparate contents. In this pathfinding volume, Lori Boornazian Diel presents the first thorough study of the entire Codex Mexicanus that considers its varied contents in a holistic manner. She provides an authoritative reading of the Mexicanus’s contents and explains what its creation and use reveal about native reactions to and negotiations of colonial rule in Mexico City. Diel makes sense of the codex by revealing how its miscellaneous contents find counterparts in Spanish books called Reportorios de los tiempos. Based on the medieval almanac tradition, Reportorios contain vast assortments of information related to the issue of time, as does the Mexicanus. Diel masterfully demonstrates that, just as Reportorios were used as guides to living in early modern Spain, likewise the Codex Mexicanus provided its Nahua audience a guide to living in colonial New Spain.

Author: Wilson G. Turner
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
ISBN: 0486443388
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 52

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Rich in mythology and art, the Aztec civilization dominated central Mexico during the fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth centuries. This handsome volume contains 42 pages of authentic Aztec designs derived from ceramics, statues, altars, shields, books, and other priceless artifacts. Gods, rulers, warriors, slaves, animals, and activities both secular and sacred are brilliantly rendered by Wilson G. Turner, a skilled artist/archaeologist and a specialist in pre-Columbian archaeology. Brief captions identify each image. Artists, designers, and illustrators will find in Aztec Designs a wealth of ideas and inspiration for a myriad of projects. Colorists will enjoy adding their own conceptions of color to these ancient motifs.

Author: Jorge Enciso
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486227944
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 127

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Characterizes ancient Mexican art through black-and-white reproductions of original motifs discovered in archaeological digs

Author: Wilson G. Turner
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486240479
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 47

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authentic Maya designs, from murals, vases, codexes, instruments, glyphs, etc.—all with informative captions.

Author: Bodleian Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 48

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Author: Frances Berdan
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520204546
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 460

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Consists of v. 2 and 4 of Berdan and Anawalt's The Codex Mendoza (4 v. -- Berkeley : University of California Press, c1992).