Casta Painting: Images of Race in Eighteenth-Century Mexico - Softcover

Katzew, Ilona

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0300109717 ISBN 13: 9780300109719

Verlag: Yale University Press, 2005

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Book by Katzew Ms Ilona

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Críticas:

"this book opens an important period of the history of Mexican art... its value lies in the range of original archival material, interdisciplinary approach, and the numerous illustrations. The book combines discussion not only of socio-historical context, and visual traditions but also the intellectual ideas of these representations." Jeremy Roe, Art History "Casta paintings, a phenomenon of eighteenth-century Mexico, portraying mixed racial families and their offspring, have received increasing attention over the past 15 years for what they reveal about control and structure in that colonial society. Katzew's superbly illustrated book is now the indispensable reference on the subject... This is an important study for various disciplines concerned with colonial Latin America.... Highly recommended." Choice"

Reseña del editor:

The first in-depth study of a mesmerizing and colorful art from colonial Mexico The pictorial genre known as casta painting is one of the most compelling forms of artistic expression from colonial Mexico. Created as sets of consecutive images, the works portray racial mixing among the main groups that inhabited the colony: Indians, Spaniards, and Africans. In this beautifully illustrated book, Ilona Katzew places casta paintings in their social and historical context, showing for the first time the ways in which the meanings of the paintings changed along with shifting colonial politics. The book examines how casta painting developed art historically, why race became the subject of a pictorial genre that spanned an entire century, who commissioned and collected the works, and what meanings the works held for contemporary audiences. Drawing on a range of previously unpublished archival and visual material, Katzew sheds new light on racial dynamics of eighteenth-century Mexico and on the construction of identity and self-image in the colonial world.

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• Verlag: Yale University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0300109717
• ISBN 13: 9780300109719
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 252