
Exploring New World Imagery
Spanish Colonial Papers from the 2002 Mayer Center Symposium
Donna Pierce(Editor)
Denver Art Museum (Publisher)
Will be published approx. on 30. October 2005
Book
Paperback/Softback
160 pages
978-0-914738-51-0 (ISBN)
Description
The Jan and Frederick Mayer Center for Pre-Columbian and Spanish Colonial Art at the Denver Art Museum sponsors annual symposia in these two fields of art. This volume presents essays on Spanish colonial art from the 2002 symposium, which focused on objects in the collections at the museum. Color reproductions of many of these works illustrate the essays, which include: "Christian Cross as Indigenous 'World Tree' in Sixteenth-Century Mexico: The 'Atrio' Cross in the Jan and Frederick Mayer Collection," by Samuel Y. Edgerton, Professor of Art History, Williams College* "The Reproducibility of the Sacred: Simulacra of the Virgin of Guadalupe," by Jeanette Favrot Peterson, Associate Professor of Art History, University of California, Santa Barbara* "Inka Nobles, Portraiture, and Paradox in Colonial Peru," by Carolyn Dean, Professor of Art History, University of California, Santa Cruz* "The Mexican Painter Cristobal de Villalpando: His Life and Legacy," by Juana Gutierrez Haces, Research Fellow and Art History Professor, Instituto de Investigaciones Esteticas, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico "Miguel de Santiago (c. 1633-1706): The Creation of the Quito School and Its Re-creation in the Nineteenth Century" by Alexandra Kennedy-Troya, Professor of Art History, University of Cuenca
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Language
English
Place of publication
Denver
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 165 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight
390 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-914738-51-0 (9780914738510)
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DONNA PIERCE is Frederick and Jan Mayer Curator of Spanish Colonial Art at the Denver Art Museum.
Content
Foreword (Lewis Sharp)Acknowledgments (Donna Pierce)Part One: Creating New World ImageryChristian Cross as Indigenous "World Tree" in Sixteenth-Century Mexico: The "Atrio" Cross in the Frederick and Jan Mayer Collection (Samuel Y. Edgerton)The Reproducibility of' the Sacred Simulacra of the Virgin of Guadalupe (Jeanette Favrot Peterson)Part Two: Negotiating New World IdentityInka Nobles: Portraiture and Paradox in Colonial Peru (Carolyn Dean)Part Three: Evolving New World StylesThe Mexican Painter Cristobal de Villalpando: His Life and Legacy (Juana Gutierrez Haces)Miguel de Santiago (c. 1633-1706): The Creation and Recreation of the Quito School (Alexandra Kennedy-Troya)Photograph & Object Credits