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...
| Основен автор: | McVicker, Mary Frech. |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Albuquerque :
University of New Mexico Press,
℗♭2005.
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Print version::
Adela Breton. |
Съдържание:
- 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
- Chichen Itza
- 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.