Converging Cultures

by Fane, Diana

• ISBN13: 9780810940307
• ISBN10: 0810940302
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-03-30
• Publisher: Harry N. Abrams

Summary

With the conquest of Mexico by Cortez and of Peru by Pizarro in the sixteenth century, two great American civilizations were brought under the control of the Spanish crown. The arrival in the newly taken territories of settlers from Spain forced an encounter between highly sophisticated cultures that had developed independently for thousands of years. In the course of the Spanish occupation of Mexico (New Spain) and Peru for three centuries, this confrontation of divergent ways of seeing and experiencing the world gave rise to new Latin American cultural traditions. Using as examples a selection of works from the collection of The Brooklyn Museum, Converging Cultures: Art & Identity in Spanish America documents these cultural continuities and transformations as evidenced in illustrated books, painting, sculpture, furniture, textiles, and other artifacts of everyday life in Spanish America from the Precolumbian period to the nineteenth century. These expressive and beautiful works testify to the strength and scope of Latin American creativity through several centuries of upheaval and renewal.

Table of Contents

Note to the Reader	6	(1)
Foreword	7	(2)
Robert T. Buck
Preface	9	(5)
Diana Fane
Sarah Faunce
Kevin L. Stayton
From Precolumbian to Modern: Latin American Art at The Brooklyn Museum, 1930-50	14	(14)
Diana Fane
European Painting and the Art of the New World Colonies	28	(18)
Edward J. Sullivan
THE VICEROYALTY OF NEW SPAIN
Map and Chronology	42	(4)
The Monarchia Indiana in Seventeenth-Century New Spain	46	(13)
Emily Umberger
From New Spain to New Mexico: Art and Culture on the Northern Frontier	59	(10)
Donna Pierce
The Algara Romero de Terreros Collection: A Mexican Aristocratic Family in the Colonial Era	69	(75)
Kevin L. Stayton
Selections from The Brooklyn Museum Collection	75	(65)
THE VICEROYALTY OF PERU
Map and Chronology	140	(4)
Textiles as Cultural Memory: Andean Garments in the Colonial Period	144	(13)
Elena F. Phipps
A Tale of Two Cities Cuzco, Lima, and the Construction of Colonial Representation	157	(14)
Tom Cummins
The Renewal of Old World Images and the Creation of Colonial Peruvian Visual Culture	171	(130)
Carolyn Dean
Selections from the Brooklyn Museum Collection	183	(118)
Glossary	301	(2)
Selected Bibliography	303	(8)
Index	311	(9)
Photograph Credits	320