on Aztec Art

[Susana Moraleda]

Seth:  I have no words to express my satisfaction with your comments, and
especially the last phrase!!! ja ja ja!!!   Thank you in the name of my
ancestors!!!
Nimitzchicahuacatlazohtlaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Susana-Xochitl


On 7 August 2013 21:36, seth wolitz <slwolitz at earthlink.net> wrote:

>
> > Brian Sewell is known as a polemicist and critic who seeks to express
> contrarian views. See his Autobiography in 2 Volumes for the full extent of
> his witty vitriol. He is a stylist. And he knows nothing about nahuatl
> culture but the received inheritance that aztecs eat human flesh and are
> horrid figures. Well the poor man has no time to look at the verse of
> Nezhualcoyotl to see that his snide remarks concerning 'Aztec culture' are
> useless verbiage. Here is a poet of first rank in any terms of high
> cultural achievement. But let Mister Sewall be content with his Italian
> primitives and early Renaissance painters. He failed to mention that the
> Dominicans, these forces of civilization, managed to destroy how many
> monuments of both Aztec and Inca works as demons in stone and burn the
> entire libraries of the nahautl speakers, a willed act no less horrid than
> the burning of the Alexandrian Library. De gustibus non est disputandum
> indeed! I do prefer Mayan sculpture that I have seen but that is indeed
> only taste and no criteria for quality. We have hardly been able to
> establish the esthetics of the mesoamerican peoples and each state
> developed their own so that we are at the beginning of beginning to
> recognize styles and cultural markers and definitions of particular
> cultural esthetic traits. The eurocentric remarks posted for us who
> appreciate and study mesoamerican matters are merely provocations to make
> us smile with determined patience. Perhaps we should provoke these
> self-assured snobbish critics that if they provoke us too far, we can start
> preparing a good Huastecan mole made with delicious spicy cloves and not
> with Pueblan chocolate and serve it not as a vegan dish but with flesh,
> theirs!
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