Primary Sources
The Codex Borgia by Call Number: Art Library, F1219.56.B65 C63 1993ISBN: 0486275698First publication of the remarkable repainting of this outstanding Mexican codex -- the priceless original is in Vatican Library. It is thought to have originated in the Cholula area, (ca. AD 1400).
76 full-color plates show an astounding array of gods, kings, warriors, mythical creatures, and abstract designs. A work of rare power and beauty.
Descendants of Aztec Pictography by ISBN: 9781477321676In the aftermath of the sixteenth-century Spanish conquest of Mexico, Spanish friars and authorities partnered with indigenous rulers and savants to gather detailed information on Aztec history, religious beliefs, and culture. The pictorial books they created served the Spanish as aids to evangelization and governance, but their content came from the native intellectuals, painters, and writers who helped to create them. Examining the nine major surviving texts, Boone explores how indigenous artists and writers documented their ancestral culture. Analyzing the texts as one distinct corpus, Boone shows how they combined European and indigenous traditions of documentation and considers questions of motive, authorship, and audience. For Spanish authorities, she shows, the books revealed Aztec ideology and practice, while for the indigenous community, they preserved venerated ways of pictorial expression as well as rhetorical and linguistic features of ancient discourses.
- Digital Archive of Latin American and Caribbean Ephemera
Collection of pamphlets, flyers, leaflets, brochures, posters, stickers, postcards, etc. created throughout the 20th and 21st c. Materials written by social activists, non-governmental organizations, government agencies, political parties, public policy think tanks, etc. to publicize their views, positions, agendas, policies, events, and activities. - Documents of Latin American and Latino Art
Explore over 9,000 primary documents and critical sources tracing the development of of 20th and 21st-century art in Latin America, the Caribbean, and among US Latino communities. Countries include Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Chile, Mexico, Peru, Puerto Rico, and Latino USA. The ICAA Digital Archive reflects the findings of this monumental digitization project and is now available, free of charge, to the research and teaching community as well as to the public at large. The uploading of documents to the archive is an ongoing process - General History of the Things of New Spain by Fray Bernardino de Sahagún: The Florentine Codex.
An encyclopedic work about the people and culture of central Mexico compiled by Fray Bernardino de Sahagún (1499–1590), a Franciscan missionary who arrived in Mexico in 1529, eight years after completion of the Spanish conquest by Hernan Cortés. Includes more than 2,400 illustrations from the period. Part of the World Digital Library, which makes available significant primary materials from countries and cultures around the world.
Biographical dictionaries
Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro-Latin American Biography by ISBN: 9780199935796Publication Date: 2016A comprehensive overview of Caribbean and Afro-Latin American philosophers, politicians, activists, entertainers, scholars, poets, scientists, religious figures, kings, and everyday people whose lives have contributed to the history of the Caribbean and Latin America. Unprecedented in scale, it covers the entire Caribbean and the Afro-descended populations throughout Latin America, including people who spoke and wrote Creole, Dutch, English, French, Portuguese, and Spanish. Coverage begins with the first forced slave migrations in the 16th century to contemporary figures.
Latin American and Caribbean Artists of the Modern Era by Call Number: Art Library Reference, N6502.4 .S45 2003ISBN: 0786410574This is a comprehensive reference book to more than 12,700 painters, sculptors, graphic artists and architects in Latin America (Mexico, Central America, South America) and the Caribbean region active during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Entries include the artists' years, countries and bibliographies. Also included are brief biographical information, stylistic notes, a record of each artist's exhibitions and a list of collections where his or her works can be seen. There are 89 photographs of selected works that supplement the entries. The introduction includes brief informative background essays on the individual countries and their artists.
