TO WEAVE FOR THE SUN. Andean Textiles in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Boston: 1992. 271 pages, 91--mostly full-page--color photographs, 390 b/w photographs, 23 drawings, 2 maps. Cloth cover. Item #15675
Documenting more than 300 superb pre-Columbian and Colonial Andean textiles in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, this wonderful catalogue presents the collection (exhibited in 1992, for the first time) that is universally considered to be among the finest of these objects in the world. Arranged in chronological order, the collection is presented in its entirety. The color photographs--almost all full-page--are splendid, and they are accompanied by data for each textile and five first-rate essays.
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