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

Name: Stories in Red and Black Pictorial Histories of the Aztecs and Mixtecs
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ISBN: 9780292719897

ISBN-10: 0292719892

ISBN-13: 9780292719897

Edition: 2000

Authors: Elizabeth Hill Boone

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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…

Book details

Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Publication date: 2/1/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 312
Size: 8.50" wide x 11.00" long x 1.30" tall
Weight: 1.936
Language: English

Elizabeth Hill Boone is Martha and Donald Robertson Chair in Latin American Art at Tulane University.