Flickering Creations: Concepts of Nahua Precious Art

The first book to recover the Indigenous aesthetic principles that guided how artists of the Aztec Empire created precious art

For the Nahua people of the Aztec Empire, precious things such as feathers, stones, and gold—known in the Nahuatl language as tlazohtli—were central to their understanding of the material world and their place in it. Flickering Creations reconstructs the Indigenous Nahua genre of precious art, revealing the aesthetic concepts that informed how artists worked with the...