Jean-Frederic Waldeck: Artist of Exotic Mexico

by Esther Pasztory

One of the first artists to visit the Mayan ruins at Palenque after Mexican independence, Jean-Frederic Waldeck has long been dismissed as unreliable, his drawings of pre-Columbian art marred by his excessive interest in European styles of beauty. With this fresh look at Waldeck's entire output, including his desire to exhibit at Paris salons, his reconstructions of Mayan and Aztec subjects can be understood as art rather than illustration. Pasztory...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826347037
• ISBN13: 9780826347039
• Release Date: June 2011
• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 2.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.3" x 10.2"