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Assembling American antiquity: The iconography and materiality of Tiffany & Company "Aztec" style silver.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Assembling American antiquity: The iconography and materiality of Tiffany & Company "Aztec" style silver./
Author:	Robinson, Samantha.
Description:	117 p.
Notes:	Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 53-06.
Contained By:	Masters Abstracts International53-06(E).
Subject:	Art History. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=1565059
ISBN:	9781321190229

Assembling American antiquity: The iconography and materiality of Tiffany & Company "Aztec" style silver.
Robinson, Samantha.

Assembling American antiquity: The iconography and materiality of Tiffany & Company "Aztec" style silver. - 117 p.

Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 53-06.

Thesis (M.A.)--Southern Methodist University, 2014.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

This thesis project constitutes a comprehensive study of the iconography and materiality of "Aztec" style silver produced by Tiffany & Company between 1890 and 1910, hitherto absent in scholarship. It considers five examples---the Teocali centerpiece, the "Aztec" platter, the "Aztec" tete-a-tete coffee service, the "Aztec" salt and pepper shakers, and the "Aztec" dagger---in order to demonstrate the diverse strategies employed by designers of a style at once characteristic and uncharacteristic of fin de siecle design. The Aesthetic and Arts and Crafts Movements of the second half of the nineteenth century ignited a vogue for a "cacophony of styles," including Egyptian, Japanese, and Middle Eastern. While Tiffany & Co. "Aztec" style silver reflects the exoticism and eclecticism of the period, it is unique given the tradition on which it is based: Aztec. At stake in this thesis project is the establishment of a logic of design essential to future examinations of the context, function, and reception of "Aztec" style silver objects.

ISBN: 9781321190229Subjects--Topical Terms:

635474
Art History.

Assembling American antiquity: The iconography and materiality of Tiffany & Company "Aztec" style silver.
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520 $a The present study outlines the fundamental properties of a heterogeneous style in order to argue that the objects are compatible with other nineteenth century representations and evocations of the Aztec in print, paint, and plaster due to its composite nature both in terms of iconography and materiality. In order to evoke the civilization par excellence of the Americas to a Gilded Age viewer, Tiffany & Co. designers, like the painters and entertainers that preceded them, often replicated monumental pre-Columbian architecture and sculpture. Furthermore, they exaggerated, displaced, and omitted certain elements of ancient Mesoamerican iconography and incorporated other signifiers of concepts of antiquity, indigeneity, or geography associated with the Aztec. The medium of silver provided designers additional opportunities to signify American antiquity. Silver and inlaid materials, such as turquoise, agate, obsidian, and ivory, reinforced the signification of the iconography, communicating Gilded Age ideas about the Aztec.
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