Descendants of Aztec Pictography : : The Cultural Encyclopedias of Sixteenth-Century Mexico / / Elizabeth Hill Boone.
In the aftermath of the sixteenth-century Spanish conquest of Mexico, Spanish friars and authorities partnered with indigenous rulers and savants to gather detailed information on Aztec history, religious beliefs, and culture. The pictorial books they created served the Spanish as aids to evangeliza...
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Boone, Elizabeth Hill, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Descendants of Aztec Pictography : The Cultural Encyclopedias of Sixteenth-Century Mexico / Elizabeth Hill Boone. Austin : University of Texas Press, [2023] ©2021 1 online resource (264 p.) : 115 color photos, 17 tables text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1 Paintings from the Past -- Chapter 2 Graphic Complexity in New Spain -- Chapter 3 The Encyclopedic Tradition in Europe -- Chapter 4 The Evangelical Project and Mendicant Investigators -- Chapter 5 Early Compilations: Codices Borbonicus and Mendoza -- Chapter 6 The Mid-Century Encyclopedias: Codices Telleriano-Remensis and Ríos and the Magliabechiano Group -- Chapter 7 Durán and Sahagún: Cumulative Expositions of the Late Sixteenth Century -- Chapter 8 Memories in Figures -- Notes -- References Cited -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star In the aftermath of the sixteenth-century Spanish conquest of Mexico, Spanish friars and authorities partnered with indigenous rulers and savants to gather detailed information on Aztec history, religious beliefs, and culture. The pictorial books they created served the Spanish as aids to evangelization and governance, but their content came from the native intellectuals, painters, and writers who helped to create them. Examining the nine major surviving texts, preeminent Latin American art historian Elizabeth Hill Boone explores how indigenous artists and writers documented their ancestral culture. Analyzing the texts as one distinct corpus, Boone shows how they combined European and indigenous traditions of documentation and considers questions of motive, authorship, and audience. For Spanish authorities, she shows, the books revealed Aztec ideology and practice, while for the indigenous community, they preserved venerated ways of pictorial expression as well as rhetorical and linguistic features of ancient discourses. The first comparative analysis of these encyclopedias, Descendants of Aztec Pictography analyzes how the painted compilations embraced artistic traditions from both sides of the Atlantic. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Mrz 2024) Aztecs Mexico Encyclopedias 16th century Pictorial works. Aztecs Mexico Encyclopedias 16th century Authorship. Aztecs Mexico Encyclopedias 16th century History and criticism. Nahuatl language Writing History. Picture-writing Mexico 16th century. ART / General. bisacsh Aztec, art history, Aztec history, Indigenous cultures, Aztec society. cosmology, colonization, colonial history, European art history, Aztec art, Spanish conquest. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package 2021 9783110745276 https://doi.org/10.7560/321676 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781477329351 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781477329351/original |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1 Paintings from the Past -- Chapter 2 Graphic Complexity in New Spain -- Chapter 3 The Encyclopedic Tradition in Europe -- Chapter 4 The Evangelical Project and Mendicant Investigators -- Chapter 5 Early Compilations: Codices Borbonicus and Mendoza -- Chapter 6 The Mid-Century Encyclopedias: Codices Telleriano-Remensis and Ríos and the Magliabechiano Group -- Chapter 7 Durán and Sahagún: Cumulative Expositions of the Late Sixteenth Century -- Chapter 8 Memories in Figures -- Notes -- References Cited -- Index |
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