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Handbook of Latin American Studies
Contains scholarly evaluations of books and book chapters as well as conference papers and articles published worldwide in the field of Latin American studies. Covers social sciences and the humanities in alternate years.
Praying to Portraits
In Praying to Portraits, art historian Adam Jasienski examines the history, meaning, and cultural significance of a crucial image type in the early modern Hispanic world: the sacred portrait. Across early modern Spain and Latin America, people prayed to portraits. They prayed to “true” effigies of saints, to simple portraits that were repainted as devotional objects, and even to images of living sitters depicted as holy figures. Jasienski places these difficult-to-classify image types within their historical context. He shows that rather than being harbingers of secular modernity and autonomous selfhood, portraits were privileged sites for mediating an individual’s relationship to the ...
Discurso e iconografía guadalupana en la Nueva España
Margarita Fernández aborda el multifacético espectáculo cultural de la Nueva España del siglo XVIII a partir de un festejo dedicado a la Virgen de Guadalupe en Zacatecas. El motivo de esta deslumbrante fiesta es el nombramiento de la Virgen de Guadalupe como Patrona de la Nueva España desde Roma, por el Papa Benedicto XIV. La investigación se divide en cuatro capítulos, que muestran el panorama en forma progresiva a través del documento del festejo zacatecano. En el primer capítulo se esboza una visión de lo que significó el siglo XVIII en la Nueva España, a partir de las políticas de transición del poder monárquico y de la influencia del Barroco. Se analiza el panorama de int...
Crewel Creatures
Beautiful bird and animal designs, inspired by the African world, in crewel and Jacobean embroidery. Following the success of Crewel Intentions and Crewel Twists, which introduced embroiderers to using needle-lace and loom-weaving techniques, comes Crewel Creatures, the third title in this series by renowned embroiderer Hazel Blomkamp. Animals and birds are popular subjects in crewel embroidery, and here Hazel introduces needleworkers to the beautiful, exotic creatures found in the African wild. Following the Jacobean embroidery style for which Hazel is well known, and incorporating the subtle influence of the fractal designs found in zentangle art, Hazel brings beads and other three-dimensi...
Self Portrait in Green
'NDiaye is a hypnotic storyteller with an unflinching understanding of the rock-bottom reality of most people's life.' New York Times ' One of France's most exciting prose stylists.' The Guardian. Obsessed by her encounters with the mysterious green women, and haunted by the Garonne River, a nameless narrator seeks them out in La Roele, Paris, Marseille, and Ouagadougou. Each encounter reveals different aspects of the women; real or imagined, dead or alive, seductive or suicidal, driving the narrator deeper into her obsession, in this unsettling exploration of identity, memory and paranoia. Self Portrait in Green is the multi-prize winning, Marie NDiaye's brilliant subversion of the memoir. Written in diary entries, with lyrical prose and dreamlike imagery, we start with and return to the river, which mirrors the narrative by posing more questions than it answers.
De lo permitido a lo prohibido
"The iconography of the Trinity has had interesting and important variations. This study addresses the theme of the Santisima Trindad (paintings and sculptures) produced in New Spain for three centuries of Spanish rule. The book is divided into three sections: The first "lo permitido" group the figures that always have been accepted by the Church and never had a problem being interpreted. The second "lo confuso" refers to the anthropomorphic representations of the Santísima Trindad which to this day create diverse opinions. The last part "lo prohibido" looks at the images that were considered heretical by the Church."--Provided by vendor.
Los ingenios del pincel
Los ingenios del pincel se propone como una introducción a la historia de la cultura visual colonial en las Américas a partir de los temas de la pintura. Definiendo "arte colonial" como una construcción cultural que se llevó a cabo en el siglo xix en la mayoría de las regiones americanas, parte de la idea de que las obras —consideradas artefactos que reflejan la cultura visual— hablan de sí mismas y de la sociedad de la que provienen. ¿Qué se pintó en la América colonial? ¿Quién pintaba? ¿Para quién? ¿Cómo, por qué y para qué se pintaba? Para responder a estas preguntas, el libro ejercita metodologías de historia digital y se basa en los resultados de graficaciones com...
