Art and Faith in Mexico

The Nineteenth Century Retablo Tradition

Elizabeth Netto Calil Zarur, Charles Muir Lovell (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

360 Seiten

2001
University of New Mexico Press (Verlag)
978-0-8263-2325-5 (ISBN)

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Nineteenth-century Mexico was a period of unprecedented political turmoil. One result of this instability was that many religious practices moved from the church to the home, and the retablo art form -- sacred paintings on tin -- flourished. With over 1,700 objects, New Mexico State University holds the largest collection of retablos of any museum in the United States. Eleven eminent Latin Americanists from the US and Mexico have studied this collection and placed it in a broad cultural context. They have looked at the retablos from the standpoint of art history, history, anthropology, folk art, and religion to bring a new understanding of and appreciation for these paintings. This interdisciplinary approach brings together multiple influences in considering, for example, Baroque images as popular icons, Aztec gods and home altars, popular images in nineteenth-century Mexico, European and viceregal paintings, and bultos and santos from New Mexico. In addition to essays, the book includes restoration philosophy and conservation methods, a glossary, chronology, maps, and a comprehensive section on the art and iconography of each object in the Art Gallery collection.

Elizabeth Netto Zarur and Charles Muir Lovell, Editors

Zusatzinfo	colour and b&w photos
Verlagsort	Albuquerque, NM
Sprache	englisch
Maße	215 x 270 mm
Gewicht	1845 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Malerei / Plastik
	Reiseführer ► Nord- / Mittelamerika ► Mexiko
ISBN-10	0-8263-2325-1 / 0826323251
ISBN-13	978-0-8263-2325-5 / 9780826323255
Zustand	Neuware