Eloise Quiñones Keber (d. 2023) was Professor Emeritus of Art History at

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and

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, where she specialized in Pre-Columbian and early colonial

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n art. She earned her Ph.D. from

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in 1984.

Writings/Publications

She published a scholarly edition of the important Aztec pictorial

Codex Telleriano-Remensis The ''Codex Telleriano-Remensis'', produced in sixteenth-century New Spain, Mexico on European paper, is one of the finest surviving examples of Aztec manuscript painting. It holds the earliest written evidence of earthquakes in Americas, the Ame ...

, with commentary,''Codex Telleriano-Remensis: Ritual, Divination, and History in a Pictorial Aztec Manuscript''. Austin: University of Texas Press 1995 which received the 1996 Ralph Waldo Emerson Award for humanistic studies from the

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society. She also co-authored, with H.B. Nicholson, ''Art of Aztec Mexico'' (National Gallery of Art, 1983). She edited ''Precious Greenstone, Precious Quetzal Feather'' (Labyrinthos, 2000), ''Chipping Away on Earth'' (Labyrinthos, 1994), co-edited with H.B. Nicholson ''Mixteca Puebla'' (Labyrinthos, 1994), and ''The Work of Bernardino de Sahagún: Pioneer Ethnographer of 16th-Century Aztec Mexico'' (University of Texas Press, 1988) with J. Jorge Klor de Alva and H.B. Nicholson.

Honors

She received the Baruch College Presidential Excellence Award in 1996, and was a recipient of fellowships and grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies,

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, and the American Philosophical Society. She received the 1996 Ralph Waldo Emerson Award in humanistic studies from the Phi Beta Kappa society for ''Codex Telleriano Remensis'' and the 1996 Distinguished Scholarship Award from

, where she also teaches.

Research

Prof. Quiñones-Keber’s research interests centered primarily on Mesoamerican manuscripts, Aztec art before and after the Spanish conquest, and issues surrounding the encounter between indigenous and European traditions in the Americas. Most recently, she was working on a book on “reinventing Aztec art”, for which she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1998-1999.

References

External links

*http://web.gc.cuny.edu/lastudies/eloisequinoneskeber.htm *http://web.gc.cuny.edu/dept/arthi/faculty/keber.html *http://societyoffellows.columbia.edu/fellows/eloise-quinones-keber/ {{DEFAULTSORT:Quinones Keber, Eloise Columbia University alumni Baruch College faculty American art historians American women art historians American Mesoamericanists Women Mesoamericanists Historians of Mesoamerican art Scholars of the Aztecs Year of birth missing (living people) Living people 20th-century Mesoamericanists 21st-century Mesoamericanists 20th-century American women writers 21st-century American women writers 20th-century American non-fiction writers 21st-century American non-fiction writers