"Montezuma's Breakfast" by Richard Nonas
Naming his P.S.1 project for Montezuma, the Aztec ruler who saw his empire devastated by the Spanish, is a clue (there are others) that the “intrusion” has something to do with the tangled narratives of conquest, colonialism, and missionary meddling that are a staple of human history. This unexpected content—history, war, life, death, home—is the stuff of epics: a powerful place for an artist to take his audience.
Nonas, Richard. Montezuma's Breakfast. New York: SZ Press, 1977.
See MCAD Library's catalog record for this book.
"Montezuma's Breakfast" by Richard Nonas
Naming his P.S.1 project for Montezuma, the Aztec ruler who saw his empire devastated by the Spanish, is a clue (there are others) that the “intrusion” has something to do with the tangled narratives of conquest, colonialism, and missionary meddling that are a staple of human history. This unexpected content—history, war, life, death, home—is the stuff of epics: a powerful place for an artist to take his audience.
Nonas, Richard. Montezuma's Breakfast. New York: SZ Press, 1977.
See MCAD Library's catalog record for this book.