The Contested Crown: Repatriation Politics Between Europe and Mexico Carroll Khadija Von Zinnenburg
The Contested Crown: Repatriation Politics Between Europe and Mexico Carroll Khadija Von Zinnenburg Following conflicting desires for an Aztec crown, this book explores the possibilities of…
Specifikacia The Contested Crown: Repatriation Politics Between Europe and Mexico Carroll Khadija Von Zinnenburg
The Contested Crown: Repatriation Politics Between Europe and Mexico Carroll Khadija Von Zinnenburg
Following conflicting desires for an Aztec crown, this book explores the possibilities of repatriation.In Contested Crown, Khadija von Zinnennburg Carroll meditates on the case of a spectacular feather headdress believed to have belonged to Montezuma, the last emperor of the Aztecs. Taken to Europe during the conquest of Mexico, it was placed at Ambras Castle, the Habsburg residence of the author's ancestors, and is now in Vienna's Welt Museum. This crown has long been the center of political and cultural power struggles, and it is one of the most contested museum claims between Europe and the Americas.
Mexico has long requested to have it back, but Welt Museum uses science to insist it is too fragile to travel.Both the biography of a cultural object and a history of collecting and colonizing, this book offers an artist's perspective on the creative potentials