Conexiones : Connections in Spanish Colonial Art

by Padilla, Carmella

• ISBN13: 9780971910300
• ISBN10: 0971910308
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-07-01
• Publisher: Spanish Colonial Art Society Inc

Summary

Conexiones: Connections in Spanish Colonial Art illustrates this heritage with selections from the 3,000-object collections at the Museum of Spanish Colonial Art in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The extraordinary assortment of objects presented here, along with their illuminating histories, reaches across space and time to celebrate the qualities that characterize the Spanish Colonial art aesthetic: sophistication, resourcefulness, elegant simplicity, skilled craftsmanship. Through these masterworks, we glimpse the daily lives of the unique Hispano cultures that thrive around the world today, including in New Mexico, where Spanish settlers established roots decades before the more celebrated arrival of the English at Jamestown and Plymouth Rock. The book's intriguing selection of objects from non-colonial countries also reveals the universality of artistic subjects and styles.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
About the Spanish Colonial Arts Society
Of Culture and Community
Visions Realized	p. 1
Historical Introduction	p. 16
A "New" Mexico	p. 19
Un Mundo de Arte (A World of Art)	p. 25
Grandes Obras (Great Works)	p. 43
Hecho con Fuego (Made with Fire)	p. 81
Tesoros (Treasures)	p. 91
La Casa Delgado (The Delgado Home)	p. 105
Independence and Americanization	p. 118
Visiones (Visions)	p. 121
El Futuro (The Future)	p. 147
San Isidro Labrador: Santo de la Tierra (St. Isidore the Farmer: Saint of the Land)	p. 159
Nuevas Obras (New Works)	p. 165
Selected Bibliography	p. 171
Museum Sponsorships	p. 173
List of Donors & International Museum Council	p. 174
Board of Directors & Staff List	p. 176
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