Painting the conquest. The Mexican Indians and the European Renaissance. Serge Gruzinski

Painting the conquest. The Mexican Indians and the European Renaissance.

Author	Serge Gruzinski
Publisher	Paris: Flammarion, 1992
Edition
Weight	1750 gram
CF
Keywords	Codicologie: Renaissance, Codicologie: Mexico, Codices: Mexico, Mexican Indians
Booknumber	19366
Category's	History & Archaeology (Middle America) Art (Middle America) Art (16th Century) Art (Pre-Columbian) History & Archaeology (Pre-Columbian) History & Archaeology (16th Century) Books on Books (16th Century) Books on Books (Book Illustrations) History & Archaeology (Colonialism) Books on Books (Manuscripts & Early Printed Books) Books on Books (Codicology)
Large 4to, pp. 236, [3]. Hardcover with dust jacket. Richly illustrated with many illustrations, maps and plates (colour & black-and-white). Includes notes, glossary, sources, bibliography and index. The Spanish invasion of America drew an entire continent into the European orbit and forced an encounter between two worlds that had been developing independently of one another for thousands of years. This confrontation eventually constituted a fatal shock for the inhabitants of the New world, but it also led to an experiment unique to the sixteenth century. Two divergent ways of seeing and experiencing the world collided as the Renaissance arts of painting, sculpture and architecture entered into a dialogue with artistic traditions cultivated by pre-Columbian civilizations for millenia. Serge Gruzinski examines the fascinating result of this cultural encounter through the illustrations of over thousand codices produced by Mexican artists during the sixteenth century. Expressive and beautifully decorative, they depict the pre-Columbian universe and colonial Mexico with an encyclopedic vision, providing a minutely detailed and invaluable chronicle of the Spanish conuest and the gradual disappearance of this ancient civilization. This timely study presents for the first time the view of the vanquished in the face of the invasion by the conquistadores and the upheavals that resulted from the "discovery" of the New World. Translated from the French by Deke Dusinberre. Fine copy in a fine dust jacket.
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