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Titre(s) : Feathers [Texte imprimé] : visions of Pre-Columbian America / under the direction of Fabien Ferrer-Joly
Traduction de : Plumes : visions de l'Amérique précolombienne
Publication : Auch : Musée des Jacobins ; Paris : Somogy art publishers, DL 2016
Impression : impr. en République tchèque
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (119 p.) : ill. en coul. ; 28 cm
Note(s) : Publ. à l'occasion de l'exposition éponyme, Paris, Musée du quai Branly, 22 novembre
2016-29 janvier 2017. - Bibliogr. p. 118-119
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Ferrer-Joly, Fabien (1964-....). Directeur de publication
Autre(s) titre(s) conventionnel(s) : [Exposition. Paris, Musée du quai Branly. 2016/2017]
Sujet(s) : Art précolombien
Plumasserie indienne d'Amérique -- Histoire
Musée des Amériques (Auch)
Genre ou forme : Catalogues
Indice(s) Dewey :
704.039 74 (23e éd.) = Beaux-arts et arts décoratifs - Étude en relation avec les peuples qui parlent
les langues penutian, maya, mixe-zoque, uto-aztèque, kiowa-tanoan
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 978-2-7572-1164-9 (br.) : 25 EUR
EAN 9782757211649
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb451554418
Notice n° :
FRBNF45155441
Résumé : 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 colours 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. [source éditeur]
