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Le Temple du Soleil

 
Accession number AR.EP.BK.0642
Creator
Places
Peru
Date
1977
Measurements
9 x 12 inches
Materials/Techniques
illustration, text
Work types
book plate

Description

TRANSCRIPTION

Hergé

Tintin
Le Temple du Soleil [the Temple of the Sun]

Copyright 1949 by Casterman
Copyright renewed 1977 by Casterman

EXHIBITION

Encountering Ancient America: Machu Picchu in Popular Culture, 1911-1965 
February-April 2018

Images of Machu Picchu proliferated during the middle of the twentieth century, in media as various as travel guides, films, art, and postcards. By the fiftieth anniversary of Bingham’s 1911 expedition, the ruin had become an icon of both the Inca and Peru.

Volume 14 of the popular Belgian comic The Adventures of Tintin took readers to the Peruvian Andes. The story ends with the miraculous escape of the comic’s heroes from Inca warriors in their hidden mountain city. Hergé, the comic’s author, lifted cultural elements haphazardly from Andean civilizations to create his “Inca” antagonists. Machu Picchu formed part of his inspiration for the unconquered “Temple of the Sun,” which is revealed in the final pages of the comic.

Collection

Ephemera Collection
 

Repository

Dumbarton Oaks Archives, 054.SUZ.02.PCbox.097
Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, DC
Accession number AR.EP.BK.0642
Creator
Places
Peru
Date
1977
Measurements
9 x 12 inches
Materials/Techniques
illustration, text
Work types
book plate

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