Imagining Identity In New Spain
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Imagining Identity in New Spain
Author | : Magali M. Carrera |
Publsiher | : University of Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 2010-01-01 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780292782754 |
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Using an interdisciplinary approach that also considers legal, literary, and religious documents of the period, Magali Carrera focuses on eighteenth-century portraiture and casta paintings to understand how the people and spaces of New Spain were conceptualized and visualized. Winner, Book Award, Association of Latin American Art, 2004 Reacting to the rising numbers of mixed-blood (Spanish-Indian-Black African) people in its New Spain colony, the eighteenth-century Bourbon government of Spain attempted to categorize and control its colonial subjects through increasing social regulation of their bodies and the spaces they inhabited. The discourse of calidad (status) and raza (lineage) on which the regulations were based also found expression in the visual culture of New Spain, particularly in the unique genre of casta paintings, which purported to portray discrete categories of mixed-blood plebeians. Using an interdisciplinary approach that also considers legal, literary, and religious documents of the period, Magali Carrera focuses on eighteenth-century portraiture and casta paintings to understand how the people and spaces of New Spain were conceptualized and visualized. She explains how these visual practices emphasized a seeming realism that constructed colonial bodies—elite and non-elite—as knowable and visible. At the same time, however, she argues that the chaotic specificity of the lives and lived conditions in eighteenth-century New Spain belied the illusion of social orderliness and totality narrated in its visual art. Ultimately, she concludes, the inherent ambiguity of the colonial body and its spaces brought chaos to all dreams of order.
Imagining Spain
Author | : Henry Kamen |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Nationalism |
ISBN | : UOM:39076002737430 |
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'Imagining Spain' is an analysis of the myths that Spaniards have held, and continue to hold, about themselves and about their collective past. The text discusses how perceptions of key aspects of early modern Spain were influenced by ideologies that continue to play a role in the formation of contemporary Spanish attitudes.
Traveling from New Spain to Mexico
Author | : Magali M. Carrera |
Publsiher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 2011-06-03 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780822349914 |
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How colonial mapping traditions were combined with practices of nineteenth-century visual culture in the first maps of independent Mexico, particularly in those created by the respected cartographer Antonio Garc&ía Cubas.
Casta Painting
Author | : Ilona Katzew |
Publsiher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2005-06-21 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0300109717 |
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Casta painting is a distinctive Mexican genre that portrays racial mixing among the Indians, Spaniards & Africans who inhabited the colony, depicted in sets of consecutive images. Ilona Katzew places this art form in its social & historical context.
The Eve of Spain
Author | : Patricia E. Grieve |
Publsiher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 329 |
Release | : 2009-04-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780801890369 |
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Finally, Grieve focuses on the misogynistic elements of the story and asks why the fall of Spain is figured as a cautionary tale about a woman's sexuality.
Framing Majismo
Author | : Tara Zanardi |
Publsiher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 583 |
Release | : 2016-03-08 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780271076683 |
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Majismo, a cultural phenomenon that embodied the popular aesthetic in Spain from the second half of the eighteenth century, served as a vehicle to “regain” Spanish heritage. As expressed in visual representations of popular types participating in traditional customs and wearing garments viewed as historically Spanish, majismo conferred on Spanish “citizens” the pictorial ideal of a shared national character. In Framing Majismo, Tara Zanardi explores nobles’ fascination with and appropriation of the practices and types associated with majismo, as well as how this connection cultivated the formation of an elite Spanish identity in the late 1700s and aided the Bourbons’ objective to fashion themselves as the legitimate rulers of Spain. In particular, the book considers artistic and literary representations of the majo and the maja, purportedly native types who embodied and performed uniquely Spanish characteristics. Such visual examples of majismo emerge as critical and contentious sites for navigating eighteenth-century conceptions of gender, national character, and noble identity. Zanardi also examines how these bodies were contrasted with those regarded as “foreign,” finding that “foreign” and “national” bodies were frequently described and depicted in similar ways. She isolates and uncovers the nuances of bodily representation, ultimately showing how the body and the emergent nation were mutually constructed at a critical historical moment for both.
Imagining Europe
Author | : Chiara Bottici,Benoît Challand |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 221 |
Release | : 2013-07-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781107015616 |
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Chiara Bottici and Benoît Challand explore the formative process of a European identity situated between myth and memory.
Genealogical Fictions
Author | : María Elena Martínez |
Publsiher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 425 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780804756488 |
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Genealogical Fictions examines how the state, church, Inquisition, and other institutions in colonial Mexico used the Spanish notion of limpieza de sangre (purity of blood) over time and how the concept's enduring religious, genealogical, and gendered meanings came to shape the region's patriotic and racial ideologies.