UID:
almahu_9949702254602882
Format:
1 online resource.
ISBN:
9789047410997
Series Statement:
Brill eBook titles 2007
Content:
This anthology centers on the visual representation of woman in early modern Latin America, that is, the social and cultural construction and definition of female identity as evidenced by the art document. Artists in this period were collectively aware of a vocabulary of gender that could be tailored to deliver varying messages about the position of women in vice regal culture and society. This volume is organized not in the predictable linear framework, by periods and centuries, but rather by the realization that throughout much of this period, Spanish authorities and others envisaged the Spanish colonies of the Americas in gendered terms. Proffered as the female body, the "New" (virginal by implication) World was at differing times adored, pursued, courted, seduced, defiled, exploited, reviled, and denounced by those (males) who encountered "her." This mentality is born out in the various forms of female representation that are discussed in this fully illustrated book. Contributors include: C. Cody Barteet, María Elena Bernal-García, Magali M. Carrera, Carol E. Damian, Carolyn Dean, Catherine R. DiCesare, Lori Boornazian Diel, Kelly Donahue-Wallace, Ray Hernandez-Duran, Andrea Lepage, Kellen Kee McIntyre, Penny Morrill, Elizabeth Q. Perry, Richard E. Phillips, Michael J. Schreffler, and Christopher C. Wilson. ERRATUM TO CHAPTER 7 Ray Hernández-Durán, " El Encuentro de Cortés y Moctezuma : The Betrothal of Two Worlds in Eighteenth-Century New Spain" (pp. 181-206). On page 194, second paragraph, third sentence, should read: "Marina's absence in the encounter painting, where she normally mediates contact between the men, emphasizes the phallogocentric aspect of the historic meeting." The original phrasing, using the pivotal term, 'phallogocentric' (a reference to a gendered form of exchange or communication) was changed to 'phallus-centered,' which not only alters a central idea in the argument, but actually has nothing to do with the image in question.
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Preliminary material /
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Introduction /
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Chapter One. The queen of heaven reigns in new Spain: The Triumph of eternity in the Casa del Deán Murals /
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Chapter Two. Affections of the heart: Female imagery and the notion of nation in nineteenth-century Mexico /
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Chapter Three. The virgin of the Andes: Inka queen and christian goddess /
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Chapter Four. Women and men as cosmic co-bearers at Oaxtepec, Mexico, about 1553 /
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Chapter Five. Abused and battered: Printed images and the female book-body in viceregal new Spain /
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Chapter Six. Reclaiming Tlatilco's figurines from biased analysis /
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Chapter Seven. El encuentro de Cortés y Moctezuma: The betrothal of two worlds in eighteenth-century new Spain /
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Chapter Eight. Nurture and inconformity: Arrieta's images of women, food, and beverage /
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Chapter Nine. Clothing women: The female book-body in pre- and post-contact aztec art /
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Chapter Ten. Savage breast/salvaged breast: Allegory, colonization, and wet-nursing in Peru, 1532-1825 /
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Chapter Eleven. Emblems of virtue in eighteenth-century new Spain /
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Chapter Twelve. The figure of Mary as the cloister in mexican mendicant art /
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Chapter Thirteen. Convents, art, and creole identity in late viceregal new Spain /
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Chapter Fourteen. The sweeping of the way: Rethinking The mexican Ochpaniztli festival /
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Chapter Fifteen. Exploring a female legacy: Beatriz Álvarez de Herrera and the façade of the Casa de Montejo /
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Chapter Sixteen. Isabel de Cisneros in her own role /
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Chapter Seventeen. From Mujercilla to Conquistadora: St. Teresa of Ávila's missionary identity in mexican colonial art /
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Index /
Additional Edition:
Woman and art in early modern Latin America ISBN 9004153926
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004153929
Language:
English
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