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Moving beyond the dominant model of syncretism, this extensively illustrated volume proposes a completely different approach to the field known as Latin American "colonial art," positioning it as a constitutive part of Renaissance and early modern art his
List of contents
- Note on Translations
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue: From One Triptych to Another
- Introduction: At the Frontiers of Art Histories
- Part One: A Triptych from New Spain
- Chapter 1. Treasures
- Chapter 2. Figures
- Chapter 3. Malicias
- Part Two: Images between Words
- Chapter 4. Mosaics
- Chapter 5. Landscape
- Chapter 6. Scratching
- Part Three: The Creation of Unexpected Languages
- Chapter 7. Relics of Ixiptla
- Chapter 8. Circular Realism
- Chapter 9. Figurative Condensation
- Conclusion: Untranslatable Images?
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Photographic Credits
- Index
About the author
Alessandra Russo is an art historian studying and teaching the early modern worlds in the Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures at Columbia University in New York City. She is the author of
El Realismo Circular: Tierras, espacios y paisajes de la cartografía novohispana and the coeditor of Images
Take Flight: Feather Art in Mexico and Europe. She has participated in the curatorship of the international exhibitions El vuelo de las imágenes and Planète Métisse and has been the recipient of several international grants, including the Getty Collaborative Research Grant and the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin’s fellowship.
Summary
Moving beyond the dominant model of syncretism, this extensively illustrated volume proposes a completely different approach to the field known as Latin American “colonial art,” positioning it as a constitutive part of Renaissance and early modern art his
