Adela Breton : a Victorian artist amid Mexico's ruins /

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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: McVicker, Mary Frech
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, ©2005.
Subjects:
Breton, Adela, > 1849-1923 > Travel > Mexico.
Breton, Adela, > 1849-1923.
Breton, Adela.
Indians of Mexico > Antiquities.
Indian architecture > Mexico.
Women artists > Mexico > Biography.
Indians in art.
Peuples autochtones > Mexique > Antiquités.
Architecture précolombienne > Mexique.
Mexique dans l'art.
Peuples autochtones dans l'art.
Femmes artistes > Mexique > Biographies.
HISTORY > Latin America > Mexico.
Antiquities.
Indian architecture.
Travel.
Women artists.
Kunst
Mexico > In art.
Mexico > Antiquities.
Mexique > Antiquités.
Mexico.
Mexiko
Indianer.
collective biographies.
Art.
Biographies.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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