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Jean-Frederic Waldeck : (Record no. 86365)

010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER
LC control number 2010008315
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780826347039 (cloth : alk. paper)
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 0826347037 (cloth : alk. paper)
035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER
System control number (OCoLC)505913434
082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 760.092 Pas
Item number 46
092 ## - LOCALLY ASSIGNED DEWEY CALL NUMBER (OCLC)
Classification number 760.092 Pas
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Pasztory, Esther
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Jean-Frederic Waldeck :
Remainder of title artist of exotic Mexico
Statement of responsibility, etc Esther Pasztory
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc Albuquerque, New Mexico
Name of publisher, distributor, etc University of New Mexico Press
Date of publication, distribution, etc c2010
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xvii, 165 p. :
Other physical details ill. (some col.) ;
Dimensions 27 cm.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc 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 sees him as a unique Neoclassicist who has never been fully appreciated.

In addition to illustrating Maya antiquities in the days before photography, Waldeck painted imaginary reconstructions of pre-Columbian life and rituals and scenes of everyday life in nineteenth-century Mexico. Most of his contemporaries looking for exotic subject matter went east and are now referred to as Orientalists. Waldeck went west and found the exotic in the New World, but as Esther Pasztory suggests, he is an Orientalist in spirit.

Waldeck's work was not considered interesting or important in its day, but twenty-first century viewers can appreciate his sensibility, which combines the modern domestic with the ancient mythic and features a theatrical version of Neoclassicism that looks forward to a Hollywood that would not exist until decades after the artist's death in 1875 at the age of 109.
590 ## - LOCAL NOTE (RLIN)
Local note 101234
600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Waldeck, Frederic de
Dates associated with a name 1766-1875
General subdivision Criticism and interpretation.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Artists
Geographic subdivision Mexico
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Mayas
General subdivision Antiquities.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Maya architecture.
651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME
Geographic name Palenque Site (Mexico)
651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME
Geographic name Mexico
General subdivision Description and travel.
651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME
Geographic name Mexico
General subdivision Antiquities.
942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA)
Koha item type sw 700 - 799
Source of classification or shelving scheme
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