Visual and Textual Dialogues in Colonial Mexico and Europe: The Florentine Codex

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Day 1: Friday, April 17, 2015
Royce Hall, University of California, Los Angeles

Day 2: Saturday, April 18, 2015
Museum Lecture Hall, The Getty Center

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Introductory Remarks and Session 1: The Art of the Tlacuilo



Barbara Fuchs, University of California, Los Angeles
Jeanette Favrot Peterson, University of California, Santa Barbara

Session Chair: Daniela Bleichmar, University of Southern California

"Painting Figures of Speech/Writing Information: Images and Texts in the Florentine Codex"
Diana Magaloni Kerpel, Los Angeles County Museum of Art

"Reading between the Lines in Book XII"
Kevin Terraciano, University of California, Los Angeles

Discussion

Session 2: Deviance and the Super/Natural



Session Chair: Cecelia F. Klein, University of California, Los Angeles

"Discourses on Deviance in the Images and Texts of the Florentine Codex"
Lisa Sousa, Occidental College

"Teotl, Ixiptla, and Diablo: Indigenous and Christian Conceptions of the Gods in the Florentine Codex of Bernardino de Sahagún and His Nahua Informants"
Guilhem Olivier, Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Session 2: Deviance and the Super/Natural (Continued)



"The Bundles of Earthly Things"
Molly H. Bassett, Georgia State University

Discussion

Introductory Remarks and Session 3: An Encyclopedia for the New World



Thomas W. Gaehtgens, Getty Research Institute

Session Chair: Kim N. Richter, Getty Research Institute

"Pantitlan and Other Erratic Waters in the Florentine Codex"
Barbara E. Mundy, Fordham University

"The Art of War, the Working Class, and the Snowfall: Reflections on the Assimilation of Western Aesthetics through the Use of Prints in the Florentine Codex"
Pablo Escalante Gonzalbo, Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Discussion

Session 3: An Encyclopedia for the New World (Continued)



Session Chair: Kim N. Richter, Getty Research Institute

"Rhetoric as Acculturation: The Anomalous Book VI within Sahagún's Encyclopedic Project"
Jeanette Favrot Peterson, University of California, Santa Barbara

"Sahagún, the Ancients, and the Indigenous Image: Conceptual Categories for Aztec Culture"
Elizabeth Hill Boone, Tulane University

Discussion

Closing Remarks by Kevin Terraciano, University of California, Los Angeles

 
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