Pearls for the Crown - Art, Nature, and Race in the Age of Spanish Expansion

"Examines a selection of artworks featuring pearls and pearl fishing scenes that demonstrate the interplay between materiality, power, labor, trade, and knowledge exchange that drove artistic production in the early modern period, and legitimated hierarchical and inequitable notions about humanity and nature"--

About the author

Mónica Domínguez Torres is Professor of Art History with a joint appointment in Latin American and Iberian Studies at the University of Delaware.

Product details

• Authors: Monica Dominguez Torres, Monica (University of Delaware) Dominguez Torres, Mónica Domínguez Torres
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.04.2024
• EAN: 9780271096810
• ISBN: 978-0-271-09681-0
• Dimensions: 203 mm x 254 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 1043 g
• Illustrations: Raster,schwarz-weiss, Raster, farbig
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Spain, ART / European, History of Art, baroque, Art & design styles: Baroque, ART / History / European / Baroque & Rococo