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For over three hundred years, from the era of Christopher Columbus to
the struggles for independence around 1820, Latin America witnessed
an artistic flowering of enormous creativity and originality. In a unique
way, the art and architecture of Aztec, Inca and Guaraní civilizations
blended with those of Europe, North Africa and the Far East. In
particular, the Spanish and Portuguese empires in Central and South
America created the climate for a flourishing, diverse and distinct
version of Renaissance and Baroque culture, produced under utterly
different social and geographic conditions from those found in Europe.
The products of this culture include some of the most lavish and
visually arresting works of art and architecture in the world.
In this lively overview of the tremendously rich and varied artistic
output of the area from southern Chile to northern California, Gauvin
Alexander Bailey discusses viceregal and missionary as well as civic
and rural architecture, alongside religious and secular painting,
sculpture, metalwork, textiles and ceramics. But he also looks back
to pre-colonial influences and concludes with an examination of
how twentieth-century artists such as Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo
interpreted their artistic heritage. Even today, the art of the colonial
period remains at the centre of Latin American society, culture and
identity. The result is a book that provides a new and comprehensive
understanding of all the influences that led to one of the most
cosmopolitan artistic outpourings in the whole history of art.
Comprehensive introductions to world art
Recommended for students and anyone curious about art
Written by internationally respected scholars
Up-to-date and informative
Enjoyable to read and free from jargon
Excellent for exploring the ideas behind visual forms
Ideal for understanding art in its historical context
Produced to the highest quality in art publishing
Art & Ideas is a groundbreaking series that offers up-to-date,
authoritative, enjoyable and thought-provoking books on every
aspect of the history of art around the world. Written by outstanding
scholars, these lively and highly illustrated books place art and architecture
firmly in the context of the culture and ideas in which they
were created. The books are concerned not just with the appearance
of works of art, but with their functions and meanings for the
men and women who commissioned, made, used and responded
to them in varied places and eras. Within each book all the visual
arts - architecture, painting, sculpture, graphic art and the applied
arts - are considered together. Although each book is a self-sufficient
survey of its subject, the series has been carefully planned to build
into a complete introduction to world art.
