Name/Title
Converging cultures : art and identity in Spanish AmericaEntry/Object ID
N6502.2.C66Description
"With the conquest of Mexico by Cortez and of Peru by Pizarro in the sixteenth century, two great American civilizations were brought under the control of the Spanish crown. The arrival in the newly taken territories of settlers from Spain forced an encounter between highly sophisticated cultures that had developed independently for thousands of years. In the course of the Spanish occupation of Mexico (New Spain) and Peru for three centuries, this confrontation of divergent ways of seeing and experiencing the world gave rise to new Latin American cultural traditions." "Using as examples a selection of works from the collection of The Brooklyn Museum, Converging Cultures: Art & Identity in Spanish America documents these cultural continuities and transformations as evidenced in illustrated books, painting, sculpture, furniture, textiles, and other artifacts of everyday life in Spanish America from the Precolumbian period to the nineteenth century. These expressive and beautiful works testify to the strength and scope of Latin American creativity through several centuries of upheaval and renewal." -- BOOK JACKETContext
Catalog of an exhibition held at the Brooklyn Museum, March 1-July 14, 1996; Phoenix Art Museum, December 14, 1996-February 23, 1997; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, March 30-June 8, 1997.Collection
Titi Halle/Cora Ginsburg LLC CollectionLexicon
Search Terms
art--latin america, art--mexico, art--peru, indigenous art--mexico, indigenous art--peruLegacy Lexicon
Category
Exhibition catalogBook Details
Author
Diana FanePublisher
Harry N. AbramsDate Published
1996Call No.
N6502.2.C66ISBN
810940302, 9780810940307LCCN
95021899Notes
Length: 320General Notes
Note
Foreword / Robert T. Buck --
Preface / Diana Fane, Sarah Faunce and Kevin L. Stayton --
From Precolumbian to Modern: Latin American Art at The Brooklyn Museum, 1930-50 / Diana Fane --
European Painting and the Art of the New World Colonies / Edward J. Sullivan --
The Viceroyalty of New Spain --
The Monarchia Indiana in Seventeenth-Century New Spain / Emily Umberger --
From New Spain to New Mexico: Art and Culture on the Northern Frontier / Donna Pierce --
The Algara Romero de Terreros Collection: A Mexican Aristocratic Family in the Colonial Era / Kevin L. Stayton --
The Viceroyalty of Peru --
Textiles as Cultural Memory: Andean Garments in the Colonial Period / Elena J. Phipps --
A Tale of Two Cities: Cuzco, Lima, and the Construction of Colonial Representation / Tom Cummins --
The Renewal of Old World Images and the Creation of Colonial Peruvian Visual Culture / Carolyn Dean.