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Title

Retratos : 2,000 years of Latin American portraits / Elizabeth P. Benson ... [et al.].

Publication

San Antonio, Tex. : San Antonio Museum of Art, 2004.

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Additional Authors

• Benson, Elizabeth P.
• Museo del Barrio.
• San Antonio Museum of Art.

Description

302, [1] p. : ill. (chiefly col.); 32 cm.

Alternative Title

2,000 years of Latin American portraits

Subjects

• Portrait painting, Mexican
• Portrait painting, Latin American
• Portraits > Latin America

Note

• Issued in connection with an exhibition held Dec. 3, 2004-Mar. 20, 2005, El Museo del Barrio, New York, and at four other museums at later dates.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 276-291) and index.

Contents

Introduction / Marion Oettinger Jr. -- Mirror image : portraiture in Latin America and the United States / Carolyn Kinder Carr -- 1. Overview through time and space -- From Prehispanic to post-romantic : Latin America in portraits, 500 B.C.-A.D. 1910 / Miguel A. Bretos -- 2. Faces of Precolumbian society -- Varieties of Precolumbian portraiture / Elizabeth P. Benson -- Moche portraits : masterpieces from ancient Peru / Christopher B. Donnan -- 3. Portraiture during the Viceregal Era (1492-1810) -- Portraiture in Viceregal America / María Concepción García Sáiz -- Monjas coronadas : the crowned nuns of Viceregal Mexico / Kirsten Hammer -- José Campeche : portrait painter of an Epoch / Teodoro Vidal -- 4. The nineteenth century : independence and national identity (1810-1910) -- Portraiture and the age of independence / Miguel A. Bretos -- 5. Portraits in the modern period : point and counterpoint (1910-1980) -- Tradition and Avant-Garde : the portrait in modern Latin American painting / Luis-Martín Lozano -- Diego Rivera's portraits / Renato González Mello -- 6. Contemporary portraiture (1980-present) -- Antiquity and modernity of the portrait / Luis Pérez-Oramas.

Call Number

JQG 05-236

ISBN

• 0300106270 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 1883502128 (softcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

2004015988

OCLC

55955322

Title

Retratos : 2,000 years of Latin American portraits / Elizabeth P. Benson ... [et al.].

Imprint

San Antonio, Tex. : San Antonio Museum of Art, 2004.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. 276-291) and index.

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Benson, Elizabeth P.

Museo del Barrio.

San Antonio Museum of Art.

Research Call Number

JQG 05-236