Diana Magalori Kerpel is professor at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico.
"The Colors of the New World is an exciting and original
contribution to the field..."--The Sixteenth Century Journal
"The 16th-century Florentine Codex is the principal document on the
Nahua culture of Mesoamerica, written by Franciscan friar
Bernardino de Sahag�n in collaboration with native peoples, whose
traditions and beliefs were vanishing. Many scholars have addressed
the book's text, but Diana Magaloni Kerpel's project is unique. She
approaches the Codex as a collaborative work of art, exploring the
object's physical attributes and its authorship. The result is a
novel interpretation, one that returns autonomy to the indigenous
people who helped create the book. Accompanying her thesis are
selected reproductions of the 2,486 beautiful illustrations in the
Codex, depicting midwifery, the fabrication of feather headdresses,
history, myths, and animals."--ARTnews
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