Format:
173 Seiten
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Illustrationen (teilweise farbig)
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23 cm
Edition:
1st edition
ISBN:
9788494746659
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8494746650
Content:
"The Significance of Small Things gathers essays written by a range of scholars to pay tribute to a special intellect - Diana Fane, Curator Emerita, Department of the Americas, at the Brooklyn Museum, New York. The book acknowledges the importance of pursuing an object-based approach in art history, and celebrates the ability of objects to connect cultures, places, times and ideas. In accordance with Fane's conviction that details deserve close inspection each author identifies, examines and interprets parts of an object that shed light on the whole work as well as on larger historical questions; some of these observations include an inscription on a box, the mysterious smile of a head on a vessel, a note in a photograph of an object, the hollowed trunk of an old tree, and a small man in the corner of a fresco, just to name a few observations highlighting the spirit of the unique person honored here."--
Content:
Introduction / Luisa Elena Alcalá and Ken Moser -- Gathering at the ahuehuete tree : a conversation piece / Luisa Elena Alcalá -- Little phonetic glyphs in the Florentine codex / Frances F. Berdan -- Small things on a lifeboat : the Mesoamerican study of European culture / Anne Walke Cassidy -- San Hipólito y las armas mexicanas : sacralizing epic history in a viceregal painting / James M. Córdova -- Things that belong : objects and their declarations / Tom Cummins -- Diana Fane : curator of the Paracas textile at the Brooklyn Museum / Georgia de Havenon -- Cushions, chairs, and icpallis : the performance of sitting in early modern New Spain / Maria J. Feliciano -- Diego Valadés's Fons meritorium : picturing the treasury of merits in the sixteenth century / Corinna Tania Gallori -- The legacy of the Bennett Expedition : a spondylus-shaped vessel from Lambayeque One / Amanda V. Gannaway -- "No te hagas guaje" : the surprising persistence of gourds and gourd-form vessels in ancient Mesoamerica / Ellen Hoobler -- The rich caves of Agustín Lorenzo and an Olmec mask / Julie Jones -- The lady of Chalma / Leonardo López Luján and Laura Filloy Nadal -- A compendium of travels : Alexander von Humboldt's collection of early Latin American photographs / Alicia Lubowski-Jahn -- Conjuring modernity : José María Eguren's photographic miniatures / Natalia Majluf -- A feather painting of Moctezuma, captured by a sea captain and destined for a Medici / Lia Markey -- Visual play in an effigy censer from Xochicalco / Debra Nagao -- "A simple twist of fate" : the anatomy of a Bolivian textile / Elena Phipps -- The curator's eyes : Sebastiano Biavati, custodian of a heterogeneous artistic world / Alessandra Russo -- Coyolxauhqui at the Brooklyn Museum / Emily Umberger -- The dolphin and the hare : scaling an Abbasid bird-shaped vessel / Gerhard Wolf
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Language:
English
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