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Images take flight : feather art in Mexico and Europe (1400-1700)

Title: Images take flight : feather art in Mexico and Europe (1400-1700) / editors: Alessandra Russo, Gerhard Wolf, Diana Fane ; contributors: Berenice Alcántara Rojas [and thrity-one others].
Publication: Munich : Hirmer, [2015].

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480 pages : color illustrations; 31 cm

Summary

This widely anticipated book offers the first systematic study of feather mosaics created in New Spain in the context of a broader creative exchange between Mesoamerican and European aesthetics and materials. Thirty-three scholars look at these unprecedented feather artworks that circulated all around the world in the 16th and 17th centuries from a range of vantage points including art history, anthropology, collecting and global history, natural history, archeology and conservation. Planned 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 300 color plates illustrating feather mosaics with their astonishing details, as well as relevant paintings, sculptures, drawings, engravings, books, European illuminated manuscripts, Mesoamerican codices, and studies of natural history.

Alternative Title

Feather art in Mexico and Europe (1400-1700)

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"A publication of the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz - Max-Planck-Institut, Florence in collaboration with the Museo Nacional de Arte (MUNAL), Mexico City"--page 480.
"This publication ... is conceived to be a book on its own rather than an exhibition catalogue. It presents and studies groups of objects from the point of view of the scholars who participated in the project, rather than individual entries on the works included in the show"--Page 10, with regard to the exhibition, March 11, 2011, El Vuelo de las imagenes: arte plumario en México y Europa.

Call Number

JQG 15-597

ISBN

9783777420639 (cl.)
3777420638 (cl.)

OCLC

925441101

Title

Images take flight : feather art in Mexico and Europe (1400-1700) / editors: Alessandra Russo, Gerhard Wolf, Diana Fane ; contributors: Berenice Alcántara Rojas [and thrity-one others].

Publisher

Munich : Hirmer, [2015].

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Chronological Term

Since 1500

Added Author

Russo, Alessandra, editor.

Wolf, Gerhard, 1952- editor.

Fane, Diana, editor.

Research Call Number

JQG 15-597

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