Adela Breton : a Victorian artist amid Mexico's ruins /

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Author / Creator: McVicker, Mary Frech.
Format: Book
Language:English
Imprint: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2005.
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Table of Contents:
  • List of Illustrations
  • Chapter 1. The Bretons of Bath
  • Chapter 2. Early Years
  • Chapter 3. The Freedom of Travel
  • Chapter 4. The Grand Tour of Mexico
  • Chapter 5. Painting on the Grand Tour
  • Chapter 6. Refining the Focus
  • Chapter 7. Teopancaxco: The Art of Recording the Ruins
  • Chapter 8. Pablo
  • Chapter 9. Sorting Out
  • Chapter 10. Chichen Itza
  • Chapter 11. Life Begins at Fifty
  • Chapter 12. The Extraordinary Undertaking: The Murals in the Upper Temple of the Jaguars
  • Chapter 13. The Professionalization of Adela
  • Chapter 14. Don Alfredo
  • Chapter 15. The 1902 Congress of Americanists
  • Color Plates
  • Chapter 16. Back to Work
  • Chapter 17. Dredging the Cenote
  • Chapter 18. The Passing of Pablo
  • Chapter 19. Drawing and Dredging
  • Chapter 20. Adela at Work
  • Chapter 21. Acanceh: The Palace of the Stuccoes
  • Chapter 22. Study Abroad
  • Chapter 23. A Scholar Not a Painter
  • Chapter 24. Organizing an International Meeting
  • Chapter 25. The 1912 Congress of Americanists
  • Chapter 26. Aftermath
  • Chapter 27. The Manuscript "Collectors"
  • Chapter 28. The Onset of the War
  • Chapter 29. In Search of Health
  • Chapter 30. Home Again
  • Chapter 31. Last Travels
  • Epilogue
  • Acknowledgments
  • Appendix A. Locations of Paintings and Drawings
  • Appendix B. Archival Materials
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index