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Festivals and Daily Life in the Arts of Colonial Latin America, 1492-1850 - Papers from the 2012 Mayer Center Symposium at the Denver Art Museum (Paperback)
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Festivals and Daily Life in the Arts of Colonial Latin America, 1492-1850 - Papers from the 2012 Mayer Center Symposium at the Denver Art Museum (Paperback)
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The Denver Art Museum held a symposium in 2012 hosted by the
Frederick and Jan Mayer Center for Pre-Columbian and Spanish
Colonial Art. The museum assembled an international group of
scholars specializing in the arts and history of colonial Latin
America to present recent research with topics ranging from
ephemeral architecture, painting, and sculpture to engravings,
decorative arts, costumes and clothing of the period. This volume
presents revised and expanded versions of papers presented at the
symposium. Barbara Mundy (Fordham University) opens this volume
with a thought-provoking discussion of pre-Columbian dance
festivals and their associated costumes and accoutrements, their
continuation and reinterpretation in colonial Mexico, and their
remaining vestiges in modern times. Gustavo Curiel (Universidad
Nacional Autónoma de México) presents a moving discussion of the
mourning activities performed in Mexico City in 1666 to commemorate
the death of Philip IV; Curiel then reconstructs a vision of the
ephemeral monument erected by the Inquisition by comparing
documentary sources, such as the artist's contract, with surviving
engravings of a similar monument. Frances Ramos (University of
South Florida) brings the volume into the eighteenth century by
examining celebrations and art in honor of Saint Joseph in the city
of Puebla, Mexico. Beatriz Berndt (Universidad Nacional Autónoma
de México) continues the festival theme by analyzing extant
engravings, written descriptions, and political motivations in the
ephemeral façade designed to celebrate the enthronement of Charles
IV in Mexico City in 1789. Kelly Donahue-Wallace (University of
North Texas) closes the festival section with a discussion of
ephemeral structures and related public art works under the
direction of the newly founded Royal Academy of Art of San Carlos
in the late colonial era. Jorge Rivas begins the discussion of
daily life by presenting recent research on a uniquely American
furniture form, the butaca (easy) chair, tracing its origins in
Venezuela and its eventual spread throughout pan-Caribbean Latin
America. Susan Socolow closes the volume with an examination of
women's quotidian clothing in colonial Argentina based on
documentary evidence found in travelers' descriptions and extant
estate inventories.Alexandra Troya-Kennedy (Universidad de Cuenca,
Ecuador) closes the volume by tracing Ecuadorian costumbrista
images of daily life from their origin in colonial-era
Enlightenment discourse to their production for the tourist market
and use by politicians in the nineteenth and early twentieth
centuries.
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