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Manuscript Cultures of Colonial Mexico and Peru - New Questions and Approaches
. Cummins
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Description for Manuscript Cultures of Colonial Mexico and Peru - New Questions and Approaches
Paperback. "The essays by Marina Garone Gravier, Diana Magaloni Kerpel, and Juan M. Ossio A. were translated by Marisol Wohl." Editor(s): Cummins, Thomas B F; Engel, Emily; Anderson, Barbara; Ossio, Juan. Num Pages: 206 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: AB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 256 x 177 x 16. Weight in Grams: 620.
This volume showcases dynamic developments in the field of manuscript research that go beyond traditional textual, iconographic, or codicological studies. Using state-of-the-art conservation technologies, scholars investigate how four manuscripts--the Galvin Mur a, the Getty Mur a, the Florentine Codex, and the Relaci n de Michoac n--were created and demonstrate why these objects must be studied in a comparative context. The forensic study of manuscripts provides art historians, anthropologists, curators, and conservators with effective methods for determining authorship, identifying technical innovations, and contextualizing illustrated histories. This information, in turn, allows for more nuanced arguments that transcend the information that the written ... Read more
This volume showcases dynamic developments in the field of manuscript research that go beyond traditional textual, iconographic, or codicological studies. Using state-of-the-art conservation technologies, scholars investigate how four manuscripts--the Galvin Mur a, the Getty Mur a, the Florentine Codex, and the Relaci n de Michoac n--were created and demonstrate why these objects must be studied in a comparative context. The forensic study of manuscripts provides art historians, anthropologists, curators, and conservators with effective methods for determining authorship, identifying technical innovations, and contextualizing illustrated histories. This information, in turn, allows for more nuanced arguments that transcend the information that the written ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Getty Trust Publications United States
Number of pages
206
Condition
New
Number of Pages
206
Place of Publication
Los Angeles, United States
ISBN
9781606064351
SKU
V9781606064351
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About . Cummins
Thomas B. F. Cummins is the Dumbarton Oaks Professor of the History of Pre-Columbian and Colonial Art and chair of the Department of the History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University. Emily Engel is chair and assistant professor in the Department of Fine Arts at the College of Mount Saint Vincent, New York. Barbara Anderson is an independent curator ... Read more
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