Images Take Flight: Feather Art in Mexico and Europe 1400-1700 - Rilegato

Russo, Alessandra; Wolf, Gerhard; Fane, Diana

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 3777420638 ISBN 13: 9783777420639

Casa editrice: Hirmer Verlag, 2015

Riassunto

This beautiful catalog presents the first systematic study of feather mosaics from New Spain in the context of a broader creative exchange between Mesoamerican and European aesthetics and materials. Thirty-three scholars look at these unprecedented artworks that circulated in the sixteenth and seventeeth centuries from a range of vantage points, including art history, anthropology, collecting, natural history, archeology, and conservation. Published to complement a major international exhibition held at the National Museum of Art (MUNAL) in Mexico City in 2011, the book is organized thematically and includes over three hundred color photographs of feather mosaics with astonishing detail, as well as relevant paintings, sculptures, drawings, engravings, books, European illuminated manuscripts, Mesoamerican codices, and studies of natural history.
No book has ever brought together so many images of artworks from this tradition, let alone assembled a team of scholars to offer such trenchant analysis. It will be essential for art historians, scholars of colonialism, and historians of the Spanish Empire alike.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Alessandra Russo is an art historian and professor in the Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures at Columbia University in New York.Gerhard Wolf is an art historian, director of the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florence, and honorary professor at Humboldt University in Berlin.Diana Fane is Curator Emerita of the Arts of the Americas at the Brooklyn Museum in New York.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Hirmer Verlag
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 3777420638
• ISBN 13: 9783777420639
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 480