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Jean-Frederic Waldeck: Artist of Exotic Mexico
Esther Pasztory
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Description for Jean-Frederic Waldeck: Artist of Exotic Mexico
Hardback. One of the first artists to visit the Mayan ruins at Palenque after Mexican independence, Jean-Frederic Waldeck has long been dismissed as unreliable, his drawings of pre-Columbian art marred by his excessive interest in European styles of beauty. This title takes a fresh look at Waldeck's entire output. Num Pages: 240 pages, 104 colour & black-&-white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KL; ACG; ACK; AGB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 254 x 203 x 23. Weight in Grams: 1054.
One of the first artists to visit the Mayan ruins at Palenque after Mexican independence, Jean-Frederic Waldeck has long been dismissed as unreliable, his drawings of pre-Columbian art marred by his excessive interest in European styles of beauty. With this fresh look at Waldeck's entire output, including his desire to exhibit at Paris salons, his reconstructions of Mayan and Aztec subjects can be understood as art rather than illustration. Pasztory sees him as a unique Neoclassicist who has never been fully appreciated. In addition to illustrating Maya antiquities in the days before photography, Waldeck painted imaginary reconstructions of pre-Columbian life ... Read more
One of the first artists to visit the Mayan ruins at Palenque after Mexican independence, Jean-Frederic Waldeck has long been dismissed as unreliable, his drawings of pre-Columbian art marred by his excessive interest in European styles of beauty. With this fresh look at Waldeck's entire output, including his desire to exhibit at Paris salons, his reconstructions of Mayan and Aztec subjects can be understood as art rather than illustration. Pasztory sees him as a unique Neoclassicist who has never been fully appreciated. In addition to illustrating Maya antiquities in the days before photography, Waldeck painted imaginary reconstructions of pre-Columbian life ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of New Mexico Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Weight
1048g
Place of Publication
Albuquerque, NM, United States
ISBN
9780826347039
SKU
V9780826347039
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About Esther Pasztory
Esther Pasztory is Lisa and Bernard Selz Professor in Pre-Columbian Art History at Columbia University. She is the author of three earlier books on pre-Columbian art and of Thinking with Things, on art theory.
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