Drawing from the renowned collection of Latin American Art at the Denver Art Museum, this catalogue examines the processes of appropriation and invention in the arts of Spanish America from the 1520s to the 1820s. The catalogue highlights Latin American masterpieces, including paintings, sculptures, and decorative arts, made shortly after the conquest and before the independence movements. Arranged regionally, the essays explore how artists found freedom despite colonial authority. While pleasing clients, many artists of Indigenous and African descent also reclaimed and reshaped the arts for themselves and their new colonial realities. Epilogue essays will consider modern and contemporary trends.

ReVision: A New Look at Art in the Americas considers what makes the Americas the Americas. With essays by leading scholars of Latin American art history, the publication explores the ways in which the past continues to exert an influence on communities throughout the region. Artists such as Alexander Apostol, Juan Enrique Bedoya, Johanna Calle, Ronny Quevedo, Sandy Rodriguez, Eduardo Sarabia, Clarissa Tossin,and Cecilia Vicuna draw on centuries of imagery from both before and after the Conquest to grapple with questions of identity, exploitation of natural resources, and displacement. The essays in this catalog provide a framework for understanding the region's nuanced history of creation, destruction, and renewal.