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Stories in Red and Black: Pictorial Histories of the Aztecs and Mixtecs

Publisher: University of Texas Press
Publication Year: 2000
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Author: Elizabeth Hill Boone
Number of Pages: 296 Pages
Illustrated: Yes
Dimensions22.23 x 1.91 x 29.21 cm
Item Height: 3.3 in
Item Length: 11.5 in
Item Width: 8.9 in
Item Weight: 52.1 Oz (approx.. 1.5 kilogram)

Elizabeth Boone has written a book that is remarkable in many ways, a work that historians, archaeologists, anthropologists, and art historians will realize they have been in need of once they have delved into it. In an unparalleled effort, she takes the reader through dozens of central Mexican and Oaxacan manuscripts, broadly speaking, 'the pictorial histories of the Aztecs and Mixtecs,' according to her subtitle; most of them were made just before the Spanish invasion of Mexico in 1519, or in the first few generations after. At the end, the reader not only knows what is in any given manuscript, according to Boone's reading, but also how to find one's own way through a manuscript.
Synopsis
This title offers analysis of Mexican painted history as an intellectual, documentary and pictorial genre. The author explores how Mexican historians conceptualized and painted their past, and introduces the major pictorial records: Aztec annals and cartographic histories and Mixtec screenfolds and lienzos. Boone focuses her analysis on the kinds of stories told in the histories and on how the manuscripts work pictorially to encode, organize, and preserve these narratives. This twofold investigation aims to broaden our understanding of how preconquest Mexicans use pictographic history for political and social ends. It also demonstrates how graphic writing systems created a broadly understood visual language that communicated effectively across ethnic and linguistic boundaries

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