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March 3, 2011
Time:4-6 p.m.
Description:Dr. Elizabeth Boone of Tulane University presents "Aztec Pictography in European Frames: The Pictorial Translation of Ideology in Sixteenth-Century Mexico." When the Spaniards arrived permanently on Mexican shores in 1519 they initiated an encounter not only between vastly different ideologies but also between distinct systems of graphic expression and record keeping. The Aztecs and their neighbors wrote and painted using an extra-linguistic, iconic script - what Boone calls Mexican pictography - which relied on figures and symbols to encode semantic meaning and recognized syntax in the spatial arrangement of forms. Despite the dominance of European systems of registry, this script proved resilient for nearly a century after the conquest, enduring even longer as a specialized prestige script.
Location:Art Building (ART) 1.120
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Contact:Amanda J Butterfield
Sponsor:Department of Art & Art History
Admission:Free and open to the public
Categories:Everyone, Lecture/talk
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