Casta Painting - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Casta Painting write by Ilona Katzew. This book was released on 2005-06-21. Casta Painting available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Casta painting is a distinctive Mexican genre that portrays racial mixing among the Indians, Spaniards & Africans who inhabited the colony, depicted in sets of consecutive images. Ilona Katzew places this art form in its social & historical context.
Imagining Identity in New Spain
Imagining Identity in New Spain - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Imagining Identity in New Spain write by Magali M. Carrera. This book was released on 2003-04-01. Imagining Identity in New Spain available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Reacting to the rising numbers of mixed-blood (Spanish-Indian-Black African) people in its New Spain colony, the eighteenth-century Bourbon government of Spain attempted to categorize and control its colonial subjects through increasing social regulation of their bodies and the spaces they inhabited. The discourse of calidad(status) and raza(lineage) on which the regulations were based also found expression in the visual culture of New Spain, particularly in the unique genre of castapaintings, which purported to portray discrete categories of mixed-blood plebeians. Using an interdisciplinary approach that also considers legal, literary, and religious documents of the period, Magali Carrera focuses on eighteenth-century portraiture and castapaintings to understand how the people and spaces of New Spain were conceptualized and visualized. She explains how these visual practices emphasized a seeming realism that constructed colonial bodies--elite and non-elite--as knowable and visible. At the same time, however, she argues that the chaotic specificity of the lives and lived conditions in eighteenth-century New Spain belied the illusion of social orderliness and totality narrated in its visual art. Ultimately, she concludes, the inherent ambiguity of the colonial body and its spaces brought chaos to all dreams of order.
New World Orders
New World Orders - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook New World Orders write by Ilona Katzew. This book was released on 1996. New World Orders available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Exquisite Slaves
Exquisite Slaves - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Exquisite Slaves write by Tamara J. Walker. This book was released on 2017-07-03. Exquisite Slaves available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Exquisite Slaves, Tamara J. Walker examines how slaves used elegant clothing as a language for expressing attitudes about gender and status in the wealthy urban center of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Lima, Peru. Drawing on traditional historical research methods, visual studies, feminist theory, and material culture scholarship, Walker argues that clothing was an emblem of not only the reach but also the limits of slaveholders' power and racial domination. Even as it acknowledges the significant limits imposed on slaves' access to elegant clothing, Exquisite Slaves also showcases the insistence and ingenuity with which slaves dressed to convey their own sense of humanity and dignity. Building on other scholars' work on slaves' agency and subjectivity in examining how they made use of myriad legal discourses and forums, Exquisite Slaves argues for the importance of understanding the body itself as a site of claims-making.
Painted in Mexico, 1700-1790
Painted in Mexico, 1700-1790 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Painted in Mexico, 1700-1790 write by Jaime Cuadriello. This book was released on 2017. Painted in Mexico, 1700-1790 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Painted in Mexico: Pinxit Mexici, 1700-1790 is part of Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA, a far- reaching and ambitious exploration of Latin American and Latino art in dialogue with Los Angeles, taking place from September 2017 through January 2018. Published in conjunction with exhibition. Exhibition Itinerary: Fomento Cultural Banamex, Mexico City June 28-October 15, 2017 Los Angeles County Museum of Art November 19, 2017-March 18, 2018 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York April 24-July 22, 2018"--Provided by publisher.
