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A Red Like no Other : : how Cochineal Colored the World : an Epic Story of Art, Culture, Science, and Trade

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Catalog of an exhibition held at the Museum of International Folk Art, Santa Fe from May 17, 2015-September 13, 2015.
Three reds : cochineal, hematite, and cinnabar in the pre-Hispanic Mesoamerican world / Claudia Brittenham -- Red at court : did the Maya at Bonampak know cochineal? / Mary Miller -- The politics of Nocheztli : the Florentine codex and the Nahua world of New Spain / Diana Magaloni Kerpel -- Tradition and innovation : cochineal and Andean keros / Ellen Pearlstein [and four others] -- The cochineal commodity chain : Mexican cochineal and the rise of global trade / Carlos Marichal -- To dye for : the many reds of Asia / Cristin McKnight Sethi -- Five barrels of cochineal : a gift from King Philip III of Spain to Shah ʻAbbas I of Iran / Marianna Shreve Simpson -- Reds in the land of the rising sun : cochineal and traditional red dyes in Japan / Monica Bethe, Yoshiko Sasaki -- Red echoes of enslavement : cochineal red, West Africa, and the slave trade / Emily Lynn Osborn -- Point of origin : genetic diversity and the biogeography of the cochineal insect / Alex van Dam [and three others] -- Crimson to scarlet : from American tradition to European experimentation / Ana Roquero -- Finer than the cochineal of New Spain : painting of the natural, civil, and geographic history of the kingdom of Peru / Rocío Bruquetas -- Proof positive : the science of finding cochineal / Estrella Sanz Rodríguez -- Shades of red : color and culture in Andean textiles / Elena Phipps -- Bleeding threads : cochineal in Mexican textiles / Alejandro de Ávila B. -- Not only red : cochineal in the eighteenth-century European woolen cloth industry / Dominique Cardon -- Dressing red : cochineal red in eighteenth-century garments from the Museo del Traje / Elena Vázquez García, Irene Seco Serra -- Recycled reds : raveled insect-dyed yarns in blankets of the American Southwest / Ann Lane Hedlund -- Wrapped in strouding : trade cloth and the American Indians of the Plains / Marsha C. Bol -- The color of power : red in the portraiture of the Spanish and British Empires / Michael A. Brown -- "One of the most beautiful reds" : cochineal in European painting / Jo Kirby -- Carmine of the Indies : cochineal in Spanish painting and sculpture (1550-1670) / Rocío Bruquetas, Marisa Gómez -- Interweaving Europe and Central Asia : connections in ethnobotany, folklore, and Polish cochineal / Anna Naruta-Moya -- "More reddish than grain" : cochineal in colonial Andean painting / Gabriela Siracusano, Marta Maier -- Painting in New Spain : conveying meaning through cochineal / Barbara Anderson -- Nocheztli--blood of the prickly pear : cochineal in domestic furnishings in New Spain and Mexico / Gustavo Curiel -- Looking for red in all the wrong places : cochineal in Spanish colonial New Mexico / Robin Farwell Gavin, Josie Caruso -- Reconsidering cochineal in Spanish colonial New Mexico : questions for the future / Cordelia Thomas Snow -- New colors, old tints : uncovering fortuny and cochineal / Elvira González Asenjo, Lucina Llorente Llorente -- Carmine and earthly delights : cochineal in cosmetics, contemporary craft, fashion, and the strawberry frappuccino / Nicolasa Chávez -- Romantic revival : cochineal in contemporary New Mexican Hispano art / Nicolasa Chávez -- Red collection : Orlando Dugi's cochineal-inspired fashion design / Carmella Padilla.

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Ladies Library Collection.



PUBLISHED
New York, NY : Skira/Rizzoli, c2015.
Year Published: 2015
Description: 319 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), map, portraits ; 29 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780847846436
0847846431

ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Padilla, Carmella,
Anderson, Barbara C.,
Clark, Blair,
Museum of International Folk Art (N.M.),

SUBJECTS
Cochineal -- History -- Exhibitions.
Dyes and dyeing -- History -- Exhibitions.
Red -- Exhibitions.