Manuscript cultures of colonial Mexico and Peru : new questions and approaches
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Manuscript cultures of colonial Mexico and Peru : new questions and approaches
（Issues & debates）
Getty Research Institute, c2014
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"The essays by Marina Garone Gravier, Diana Magaloni Kerpel, and Juan M. Ossio A. were translated by Marisol Wohl."--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents of Works
- Introduction : beyond the normal; collaborative research and the forensic study of New World manuscripts / Thomas B.F. Cummins and Emily A. Engel
- New assessment of the hidden texts in the Galvin manuscript of Fray Martín de Murúa / Juan M. Ossio A
- Dibujado de mi mano : Martín de Murúa as artist / Thomas B.F. Cummins
- Woven documents : color, design, and cultural origins of the textiles in the Getty Murúa / Elena Phipps
- Accounting for unfinished history : how evidence of book structure provides a new context for the making of the Galvin and Getty Murúas / Nancy K. Turner
- Colorants and artists' palettes in the Murúa manuscripts / Karen Trentelman
- Let the waters and the pigments flow on these pages : making and emending landscape in the Relación de Michoacán, 1539-1541 / Angélica J. Afanador-Pujol
- The visual construction of a historical narrative : book design and calligraphy of the Florentine Codex / Marina Garone Gravier
- The colors of creation : materials and techniques in the Florentine Codex / Diana Magaloni Kerpel
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Description
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 texts and painted images themselves provide. The book encourages scholars to think broadly about the manuscripts of colonial Mexico and Peru in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and employ new techniques and methods of research.
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