. A Painted History From The North Mixteca. by Brownstone, Arni ( Editor) - 2015

University of Oklahoma Press, 2015-02-05. Paperback. Used:Good.

Paperback / softback. New. For centuries, indigenous rulers of Mesoamerica commissioned elaborate pictorial histories to maintain their claims to power, land, and privilege--a practice they continued under Spanish authority after the conquest. The Lienzo of Tlapiltepec is one such history. An intricate pictographic document on cotton cloth measuring 156 by 66.5 inches, the lienzo was produced by an Indian painter-scribe of great skill during the sixteenth century in the northern Mixteca, in the Mexican state of Oaxaca. It depicts events dating from the eleventh century to the early years of the Spanish colony. Housed since 1919 in the Royal Ontario Museum of Canada, the lienzo is a work of such complexity and reach that few scholars possess the tools to understand its message and context. The contributors to this volume are among that select few. In four chapters, front matter, and two appendices accompanied by detailed, full-color illustrations, scholars Arni Brownstone, Nicholas Johnson, Bas van… Read More

Univ of Oklahoma Pr, 2015. Paperback. New. 190 pages. 10.75x8.50x0.50 inches.

University of Oklahoma Press. Paperback. New. 10x8x0.

Univ of Oklahoma Pr, 2015. Paperback. New. 190 pages. 10.75x8.50x0.50 inches.