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The Untranslatable Image: A Mestizo History of the Arts in New Spain, 1500-1600

The Untranslatable Image: A Mestizo History of the Arts in New Spain, 1500-1600

Russo, Alessandra
Emanuel, Susan

Paperback

Series: Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and L

Art HistoryCaribbean, Latin American & South American Art

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ISBN10: 0292754140
ISBN13: 9780292754140
Publisher: Univ Of Texas Pr
Published: Jan 10 2023
Pages: 376
Weight: 1.49
Height: 1.10 Width: 5.98 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

Moving beyond the dominant model of syncretism, this extensively illustrated volume proposes a completely different approach to the field known as Latin American colonial art, positioning it as a constitutive part of Renaissance and early modern art history.

From the first contacts between European conquerors and the peoples of the Americas, objects were exchanged and treasures pillaged, as if each side were seeking to appropriate tangible fragments of the world of the other. Soon, too, the collision between the arts of Renaissance Europe and pre-Hispanic America produced new objects and new images with the most diverse usages and forms. Scholars have used terms such as syncretism, fusion, juxtaposition, and hybridity in describing these new works of art, but none of them, asserts Alessandra Russo, adequately conveys the impact that the European artistic world had on the Mesoamerican artistic world or treats the ways in which pre-Hispanic traditions, expertise, and techniques--as well as the creation of post-Conquest images--transformed the course of Western art.

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