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Adela Breton : a Victorian artist amid Mexico's ruins /
Mary McVicker relates the story of Adela Breton, a Victorian gentlewoman who spent a lifetime of travel, exploring past cultures and landscapes in Mexico. She tells of her independence from the strictures of Victorian life, as well as her career as an artist-archaeologist and the significance of her...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Albuquerque :
University of New Mexico Press,
©2005.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The Bretons of Bath
- Early years
- The freedom of travel
- The grand tour of Mexico
- Painting on the grand tour
- Refining the focus
- Teopancaxco : the art of recording the ruins
- Pablo
- Sorting out
- Chichén Itzá
- Life begins at fifty
- The extraordinary undertaking : the murals in the upper Temple of the Jaguars
- The professionalization of Adela
- Don Alfredo
- The 1902 Congress of Americanists
- Back to work
- Dredging the Cenote
- The passing of Pablo
- Drawing and dredging
- Adela at work
- Acanceh: The palace of the stuccoes
- Study abroad
- A scholar, not a painter
- Organizing an international meeting
- The 1912 Congress of Americanists
- Aftermath
- The manuscript collectors
- The onset of the war
- In search of health
- Home again
- Last travels.