Visual culture and indigenous agency in the early Americas / / edited by Alessia Frassani.
This volume explores how visual arts functioned in the indigenous pre- and post-conquest New World as vehicles of social, religious, and political identity. Twelve scholars in the field of visual arts examine indigenous artistic expressions in the American continent from the pre-Hispanic age to the...
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| Superior document: | The Early Americas: History and Culture, Volume 10 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2022] ©2022 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Early Americas: history and culture ;
Volume 10. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxiii, 256 pages) :; color illustrations, maps. |
| Notes: | "This book honors Eloise Quiñones Keber, a longtime professor of pre-Colombian and colonial Latin American art at the City University of New York." -- Preface. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Flower Mountain in Pre-Columbian Querétaro? : The Iconography of a Toltec Monument from El Cerrito / Keith Jordan
- Divination, Ceremony, and Structure in the Codex Laud / Alessia Frassani
- The Devil You Know : Pictorial Representations of the Devil and the Demonic in the Florentine Codex / Angela Herren Rajagopalan
- Luminosity in Mexican Enconchado Paintings and Conceptions of the Sacred / Miguel Arisa
- The Strings Attached : Problems in Integrating the Study of the Ancient Caribbean / Lawrence Waldron
- The Cuban Bohío : History, Appropriation, and Transformation / Lorena Tezanos Toral
- Picturing the Bird in Paracas : Images from Unwritten Narratives / Mary Brown
- Indigenous Artists and the Representation of Africans in Colonial Peru / Elena FitzPatrick Sifford
- Andean Cosmovision in the Angel Painting Series in the Viceroyalty of Peru / Orlando Hernández Ying
- Imagining Insurgency in Late Colonial Peru / Ananda Cohen-Aponte
- Thinking in Stone : Re-presenting the Shape of Inca Culture Today / Jeremy James George
- Final Remarks / Marcus B. Burke.