The Art and Iconography of Late Post-Classic Central Mexico
The Art and Iconography of Late Post-Classic Central Mexico
By: Elizabeth Hill Boone
This volume examines the art and archaeology of Late Post-Classic Central Mexico through archaeology and ethnohistory, producing more fully rounded reconstructions and analyses of an often-overlooked historical era.
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This volume examines the art and archaeology of Late Post-Classic Central Mexico and thematically proposes that Aztec culture was in fact creative, fighting against suggestions in academia to the contrary. The essays that constitute this volume characteristically interweave archaeology and ethnohistory to produce more fully rounded reconstructions and analyses of an often-overlooked historical era. In recentering Central Mexico, they contribute to an improved knowledge of the aesthetic and ideological aspects of an important cultural climax zone of native America’s most advanced civilization.
Elizabeth Hill Boone
Elizabeth Boone is a specialist in the Precolumbian and early colonial art of Latin America, with an emphasis on Mexico. Formerly Director of Pre-Columbian Studies at Dumbarton Oaks (1980-95), she has taught art history at Tulane since 1995. Her research interests range from the history of collecting to systems of writing and notation; they are grounded geographically in Aztec Mexico but extend temporally for at least a century after the Spanish invasion.
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