Behind the mask in Mexico / Janet Brody Esser, editor ; Museum of International Folk Art - Santa Fe, NM : Museum of International Folk Art, Museum of New Mexico Press , c1988 - 351 p. : illus. ; 32 cm.

Catalog of an exhibition. Sponsored by the Museum of International Folk Art, June 1988 -Sept. 1990

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Mexican masks are not only admire for their intrinsic plastic value as aesthetic objects but because they play a central role and are so closely linked to the fevor, the ethic, and the vigor with which a town dresses itself in order to define and celebrate itself.


English.

0890131899


Museum of International Folk Art, NM---Exhibitions


Indian masks---Exhibitions---Mexico
Indians of Mexico---Rites and ceremonies
Masks---Mexico
Festivals---Mexico

F1219.3.M4 / B44 1988

REF 731.75 BEH