Imagining Identity in New Spain
Title | Imagining Identity in New Spain PDF eBook |
Author | Magali M. Carrera |
Publisher | University of Texas Press |
Pages | 302 |
Release | 2010-01-01 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0292782756 |
Using an interdisciplinary approach that also considers legal, literary, and religious documents of the period, Magali Carrera focuses on eighteenth-century portraiture and casta paintings to understand how the people and spaces of New Spain were conceptualized and visualized. Winner, Book Award, Association of Latin American Art, 2004 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 casta paintings, 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 casta paintings 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.
Casta Painting
Title | Casta Painting PDF eBook |
Author | Ilona Katzew |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 262 |
Release | 2005-06-21 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780300109719 |
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 Spain
Title | Imagining Spain PDF eBook |
Author | Henry Kamen |
Publisher | |
Pages | 264 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
'Imagining Spain' is an analysis of the myths that Spaniards have held, and continue to hold, about themselves and about their collective past. The text discusses how perceptions of key aspects of early modern Spain were influenced by ideologies that continue to play a role in the formation of contemporary Spanish attitudes.
Traveling from New Spain to Mexico
Title | Traveling from New Spain to Mexico PDF eBook |
Author | Magali M. Carrera |
Publisher | Duke University Press |
Pages | 350 |
Release | 2011-06-03 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0822349914 |
How colonial mapping traditions were combined with practices of nineteenth-century visual culture in the first maps of independent Mexico, particularly in those created by the respected cartographer Antonio Garc&ía Cubas.
New World Orders
Title | New World Orders PDF eBook |
Author | Ilona Katzew |
Publisher | America's Society Art Gallery |
Pages | 164 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN |
Genealogical Fictions
Title | Genealogical Fictions PDF eBook |
Author | María Elena Martínez |
Publisher | Stanford University Press |
Pages | 425 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0804756481 |
Genealogical Fictions examines how the state, church, Inquisition, and other institutions in colonial Mexico used the Spanish notion of limpieza de sangre (purity of blood) over time and how the concept's enduring religious, genealogical, and gendered meanings came to shape the region's patriotic and racial ideologies.
Imagining Europe
Title | Imagining Europe PDF eBook |
Author | Chiara Bottici |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 221 |
Release | 2013-07-29 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1107015618 |
Chiara Bottici and Benoît Challand explore the formative process of a European identity situated between myth and memory.