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Adela Breton [electronic resource] : a Victorian artist amid Mexico's ruins / Mary F. McVicker.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McVicker, Mary Frech.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Indians of Mexico--Antiquities.
- Indians of Mexico.
- Indian architecture--Mexico.
- Indian architecture.
- Women artists--Mexico--Biography.
- Women artists.
- Indians in art.
- Mexico--In art.
- Mexico.
- Mexico--Antiquities.
- Breton, Adela, 1849-1923--Travel--Mexico.
- Breton, Adela.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (226 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, c2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The life and work of the adventurous Victorian gentlewoman who became internationally recognized for her paintings of Pre-Columbian sites and images.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references p. (215-216) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-63539-9
- 0-8263-3680-9
- OCLC:
- 827208294
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