Visualizing Guadalupe - From Black Madonna to Queen of the Americas

Informationen zum Autor Jeanette Favrot Peterson is Associate Professor in the Department of History of Art and Architecture at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of The Paradise Garden Murals of Malinalco: Utopia and Empire in Sixteenth-Century Mexico, which won the College Art Association’s Charles Rufus Morey Book Award, and coeditor of Seeing Across Cultures: Visuality in the Early Modern Period. Klappentext Spanning some three hundred years, this masterful study of the transmission of the Virgin of Guadalupe from Spain to the Americas and back again explores the subjectivity of seeing and the power of an image at the intersection of religion and politics. Zusammenfassung Spanning some three hundred years, this masterful study of the transmission of the Virgin of Guadalupe from Spain to the Americas and back again explores the subjectivity of seeing and the power of an image at the intersection of religion and politics. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction: The Subjectivity of Seeing Chapter 1: The Sacrality of Blackness Chapter 2: “Because She Was of Their Color” Chapter 3: Her Presence in Her Absence Chapter 4: Making Guadalupe Chapter 5: A “Book of Miracles” Chapter 6: Sacred Cloth and Veiled Body Chapter 7: Aura and Authorship Chapter 8: The Civil/Savage Paradox Chapter 9: The Viceroys and the Virgin Chapter 10: Collecting Guadalupe Notes Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: Jeanette Favrot Peterson, Jeannette Favrot Peterson
• Publisher: University Of Texas Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.01.2014
• EAN: 9780292737754
• ISBN: 978-0-292-73775-4
• No. of pages: 348
• Series: Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture; Joe R. and Teresa Lozana Long; Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture; Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long; Joe R. and Teresa Lozana Long
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history