Images Take Flight
Subtitle: Feather Art in Mexico and Europe
Publisher: Hirmer Publishers
Published: Jan 15, 2016
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 500
ISBN-13: 9783777420639
Description: "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."--
Notes: Source title: Images Take Flight: Feather Art in Mexico and Europe