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Plumes: Visions of Pre-Columbian America

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  • Plumes: Visions of Pre-Columbian America by Fabien Ferrer-Joly
  • Plumes: Visions of Pre-Columbian America by Fabien Ferrer-Joly
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Through its symbolic and religious dimensions, the feather played a major role in pre-Columbian societies. Associated with the gods and with the founding myths, reserved for the use of caciques and warriors, the feather took on a sacred quality whose importance the first evangelists understood, diverting it to the benefit of the Christian message. For this reason, right from the beginning of the conquest, the art of the amantecas - Aztec master featherworkers - would find a new form of expression through original and mixed-culture works that would meet with huge success in the West. Among all the treasures brought back from Mexico, works done with feathers were certainly the objects the most appreciated in Europe. Their iridescent colors and meticulous craftsmanship rapidly brought about the success of the most famous cabinets of curiosities. Thus, little by little, the feather would impose itself in the Western collective imagination as one of the emblems of the New World. From the fifteenth century on, artists took possession of the feather and contributed to the dissemination of the stereotyped image of the Indian bedecked in feathers, which would remain one of the symbols of the Americas.

Author Biography

Fabien Ferrer-Joly is the curator of the Mus e des Jacobins in Toulouse (France). The book Feathers, visions of pre-columbian America was made under his direction with the collaboration of Carole Fraresso, Anne-Marie Wohrer, Pascal Mongne and G rard Priet.
Release date NZ
March 30th, 2017
Audience
  • General (US: Trade)
Country of Publication
France
Illustrations
120 col & b/w ills
Imprint
Somogy Editions d'Art
Pages
120
Publisher
Somogy Editions d'Art
ISBN-13
9782757211649
Product ID
27787402

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