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Lettered Artists and the Languages of Empire - Painters and the Profession in Early Colonial Quito (Hardcover)
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Lettered Artists and the Languages of Empire - Painters and the Profession in Early Colonial Quito (Hardcover)
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Arvey Foundation Book Award, Association for Latin American Art,
2019 Quito, Ecuador, was one of colonial South America’s most
important artistic centers. Yet the literature on painting in
colonial Quito largely ignores the first century of activity,
reducing it to a “handful of names,” writes Susan Verdi
Webster. In this major new work based on extensive and largely
unpublished archival documentation, Webster identifies and traces
the lives of more than fifty painters who plied their trade in the
city between 1550 and 1650, revealing their mastery of languages
and literacies and the circumstances in which they worked in early
colonial Quito. Overturning many traditional assumptions about
early Quiteño artists, Webster establishes that these
artists—most of whom were Andean—functioned as visual
intermediaries and multifaceted cultural translators who harnessed
a wealth of specialized knowledge to shape graphic, pictorial
worlds for colonial audiences. Operating in an urban mediascape of
layered languages and empires—a colonial Spanish realm of
alphabetic script and mimetic imagery and a colonial Andean world
of discursive graphic, material, and chromatic forms—Quiteño
painters dominated both the pen and the brush. Webster demonstrates
that the Quiteño artists enjoyed fluency in several areas, ranging
from alphabetic literacy and sophisticated scribal conventions to
specialized knowledge of pictorial languages: the materials,
technologies, and chemistry of painting, in addition to
perspective, proportion, and iconography. This mastery enabled
artists to deploy languages and literacies—alphabetic, pictorial,
graphic, chromatic, and material—to obtain power and status in
early colonial Quito.
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