The Arts in Latin America, 1492-1820

by Joseph J. Rishel, with Suzanne Stratton-Pruitt

• ISBN13: 9780300120035
• ISBN10: 0300120036
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 2006-11-06
• Publisher: Yale University Press

Summary

Essays by Gauvin Alexander Bailey, Clara Bargellini, Dilys E. Blum, Elizabeth Hill Boone, Marcus Burke, Mitchell A. Codding, Thomas B. F. Cummins, Cristina Esteras Martin, M. Concepcion Garcia Saiz, Ilona Katzew, Adrian Locke, Gridley McKim-Smith, Alfonso Ortiz Crespo, Jorge F. Rivas P., Nuno Senos, Edward J. Sullivan, and Marjorie Trusted By the end of the 16th century, Europe, Africa, and Asia were connected to North and South America via a vast network of complex trade routes. This led, in turn, to dynamic cultural exchanges between these continents and a proliferation of diverse art forms in Latin America. This monumental book transcends geographic boundaries and explores the history of the confluence of styles, materials, and techniques among Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas through the end of the colonial eraa period marked by the independence movements, the formation of national states, and the rise of academic art. Written by distinguished international scholars, essays cover a full range of topics, including city planning, iconography in painting and sculpture, East-West connections, the power of images, and the role of the artist. Beautifully illustrated with over 650 worksmany published for the first timethis book presents a spectacular selection of decorative arts, textiles, silver, sculpture, painting, and furniture. Scholarly entries on some three hundred works highlight the various cultural influences and differences throughout this vast region. This groundbreaking book also includes an illustrated chronology, informative maps, and an exhaustive bibliography and is sure to set a new standard in the field of Latin American studies.

Author Biography

Joseph J. Rishel is The Gisela and Dennis Alter Senior Curator of European Painting before 1900, Philadelphia Museum of Art, and Senior Curator of the John G. Johnson Collection and the Rodin Museum. Suzanne Stratton-Pruitt is a scholar of Spanish and Spanish-American art of the 17th and 18th centuries. 

Table of Contents

Art in colonial Latin America : a brief critical review	p. 1
Colonial foundations : points of contact and compatibility	p. 11
The Spanish American colonial city : its origins, development, and functions	p. 23
The black hand : notes on the African presence in the visual arts of Brazil and the Caribbean	p. 39
Asia in the arts of colonial Latin America	p. 57
The parallel course of Latin American and European art in the Viceregal era	p. 71
Artisans and artists in Ibero-America from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century	p. 87
Catalogue
Decorative arts	p. 96
The decorative arts in Latin America, 1492-1820	p. 98
Textiles	p. 144
Textiles in colonial Latin America	p. 146
Dressing colonial, dressing diaspora	p. 155
Hispanic silver	p. 176
Silver and silverwork, wealth and art in Viceregal America	p. 178
Brazilian silver	p. 228
The art of silver in colonial Brazil	p. 230
Sculpture	p. 246
Exotic devotion : sculpture in Viceregal America and Brazil, 1520-1820	p. 248
Changing faces : the re-emergence of a sacred landscape in colonial Mexico and Peru	p. 258
Painting	p. 320
Painting in colonial Latin America	p. 322
Stars in the sea of the church : the Indian in eighteenth-century New Spanish painting	p. 335
Furniture	p. 474
Observations on the origin, development, and manufacture of Latin American furniture	p. 476
Chronology	p. 508
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