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Stories in red and black Boone, Elizabeth Hill  A recipient of Mexico's Order of the Aztec Eagle, Elizabeth Hill Boone holds the Martha and Donald Robertson Chair in Latin American Art at Tulane University. The Aztecs and Mixtecs of ancient Mexico recorded their histories pictorially in images painted on hide, paper, and cloth. The tradition of painting history continued even after the Spanish Conquest, as the Spaniards accepted the pictorial histories as valid records of the past. Five Pre-Columbian and some 150 early colonial painted histories survive today.This copiously illustrated book offers the first comprehensive analysis of the Mexican painted history as an intellectual, documentary, and pictorial genre. Elizabeth Hill Boone explores how the Mexican historians conceptualized and painted their past and introduces the major pictorial records: the Aztec annals and cartographic histories and the 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 broadens our understanding of how preconquest Mexicans used 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. The Aztecs and Mixtecs of ancient Mexico recorded their histories pictorially in images painted on hide, paper, and cloth. The tradition of painting history continued even after the Spanish Conquest, as the Spaniards accepted the pictorial histories as valid records of the past. Five Pre-Columbian and some 150 early colonial painted histories survive today.This copiously illustrated book offers the first comprehensive analysis of the Mexican painted history as an intellectual, documentary, and pictorial genre. Elizabeth Hill Boone explores how the Mexican historians conceptualized and painted their past and introduces the major pictorial records: the Aztec annals and cartographic histories and the 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 broadens our understanding of how preconquest Mexicans used 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.Prix et récompensesArvey Prize / Association for Latin American ArtHonorable Mention, George Wittenborn Memorial Book Award / Art Libraries Society of North AmericaALAA Book Award Best Scholarly Book on Latin American Art / Association for Latin American ArtPreface1. Configuring the Past2. History and Historians3. Writing in Images4. Structures of History5. Mixtec Genealogical Histories6. Lienzos and Tiras from Oaxaca and Southern Puebla7. Stories of Migration, Conquest, and Consolidation in the Central Valleys8. Aztec&#160;Altepetl&#160;Annals9. Histories with a PurposeNotesBibliographyIndexEditeur : Austin : University of Texas pressDate de parution : 2000 Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XIV-296 p.) : ill. ; 28 cm Note : Bibliogr. p. 267-284ISBN 978-0-292-71989-7 (br.) PARIS-BnF : - Tolbiac - Rez-de-jardin - magasin : 2009-565 - Richelieu - Manuscrits - magasin : 4-IMPR OR-7472 PARIS-BSU-MicheletPARIS-Médiathèque MQBAperçu du contenu.