The new view of Mesoamerican land and the Maya ruins through the drawings of the English artist Frederick Catherwood

La nueva visión del territorio mesoamericano y de las ruinas mayas a través de los dibujos del artista inglés Frederick Catherwood

Blasco Dragun, Estefanía Sol
Detalles Bibliográficos
2018
viajes
relatos de viaje
siglo XIX
imágenes
travels
travel writing
XIX century
images
Español
Universidad de Montevideo
REDUM
http://revistas.um.edu.uy/index.php/revistahumanidades/article/view/200
Acceso abierto
Atribución 4.0 Internacional
Resumen:
Sumario:The present work intends to investigate the construction of a new vision about Mesoamerica from the images produced by the English artistFrederick Catherwood during his trip through the Central American lands in the middle of the 19th century, accompanied by John Lloyd Stephens.Through the artist’s biography, recovering the importance of travel and his writings from the first contacts between Europe and America, and reviewing the journey made by these two characters, we will focus on the analysis of the images published in 1844 under the title of Views of Ancient Monuments in Central America, Chiapas and Yucatan. With this work we seek to recover the importance of this artist in the history of thecontacts between Europe and America and the subsequent exploration of the American territories from new paradigms that gave more value toAmerican antiquity.