LEONARD F. PELTIER, MD, Orthopedics: a history and iconography, Norman Orthopedic Series No. 3, Norman Surgery Series No. 6, San Francisco, Norman Publishing, 1993, pp. xxvi, 305, illus., $225.00 (0-930405-47-1). This companion volume to Fractures: a historv and iconography oftreatment, by the same author and publisher, is equally well researched and produced. In addition to 332 illustrations o...

medical texts. It is one of the major resources in measuring the shifts in perception present within systems that claim to represent the "realities" of the world. It is thus not merely of interest to parallel one world of aesthetic objects to another (as Glandien does in his work on Messerschmidt and his influence in contemporary art) or to draw the internal history of the function of photograp...

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The clothing of Mexican indigenous origin is characterized primarily by the materials of which it is made, the type of fabric, the icons woven or embroidered therein and the colours applied in its composition. Defining their origin and visual identification based on the icons requires ethnographic, technical and historical knowledge. This work presents the analysis of images (icons) identified ...