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Inventing indigenism : Francisco Laso's image of modern Peru
- Title
- Inventing indigenism : Francisco Laso's image of modern Peru / Natalia Majluf.
- Author
- Majluf, Natalia
- Publication
- Austin : University of Texas Press, 2021.
- ©2021
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- Additional Authors
- Laso, Francisco, 1823-1869.
- Description
- xv, 245 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 27 cm.
- Summary
- "The Peruvian painter Francisco Laso (1823-69) was born to an aristocratic Creole family. After studying painting in Europe, he returned to Peru and began to focus on portraiture and religious paintings. Over time, he increasingly grew interested in portraying the lives of everyday people rather than the ruling elite class. In addition, he began to depict people of indigenous and African descent, often in traditional dress, as in the cases of the Quechua and Aymara people he painted. His solemn and still studies serve to underscore a shift in depicting indigenous peoples as servants or slaves to representing a noble and lost figure in the Peruvian imagination. Laso's work was part of a broader transformation among nineteenth-century Peruvian painters that influenced writers and intellectuals, who were actively crafting a new national identity in the aftermath of independence from Spain. These images and the ideas they represented continued to shape Peruvian national identity even as the country began to implement modernization programs in the early twentieth century. Natalia Majluf contextualizes Laso's corpus of work within the longer visual culture rooted in the Enlightenment of the late eighteenth century and through portraits of indigenous peoples in the early twentieth century"--
- Series Statement
- The William & Bettye Nowlin series in art, history, and culture of the Western Hemisphere
- Uniform Title
- William & Bettye Nowlin series in art, history, and culture of the Western Hemisphere.
- Subject
- Laso, Francisco, 1823-1869
- 1800-1999
- Painting, Peruvian > 19th century
- Indians of South AmericaPeru > Portraits > 19th century
- National characteristics, Peruvian
- Quechua Indians > Peru > Portraits > 19th century
- Aymara Indians > Peru > Portraits > 19th century
- Indigenous peoples > Portraits > 20th century
- Painting, Peruvian
- Peru
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction -- Precedents: a short history of the Indian: concept and image -- The Indian, image of the nation -- The scene of approximation -- Picturing race -- Epilogue: personal narratives, public images.
- Call Number
- JQF 22-552
- ISBN
- 9781477324080
- 1477324089
- LCCN
- 2020057445
- OCLC
- 1232013515
- Author
- Majluf, Natalia, author.
- Title
- Inventing indigenism : Francisco Laso's image of modern Peru / Natalia Majluf.
- Publisher
- Austin : University of Texas Press, 2021.
- Copyright Date
- ©2021
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- The William & Bettye Nowlin series in art, history, and culture of the Western HemisphereWilliam & Bettye Nowlin series in art, history, and culture of the Western Hemisphere.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1800-1999
- Added Author
- Laso, Francisco, 1823-1869. Works. Selections.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Majluf, Natalia. Inventing indigenism. First edition Austin : University of Texas Press, 2021 9781477324097 (DLC) 2020057446
- Research Call Number
- JQF 22-552