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Title

Transforming images : New Mexican santos in-between worlds / Claire Farago and Donna Pierce ; Marianne L. Stoller ... [et al.].

Author

Farago, Claire J.

Publication

University Park, PA : Pennsylvania State University Press, c2006.

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Additional Authors

• Pierce, Donna, 1950-
• Stoller, Marianne L.

Description

xx, 355 p. : ill. (some col.), maps , charts; 27 cm.

Summary

"In this volume, the writers consider the inadequacy of the concept of style as essential to a person, people, place, or period. While the subject matter of this book is specific to religious practices and artifacts from New Mexico between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries, the implications of these investigations are far reaching historically, methodologically, and theoretically. The essays collected here explore the Catholic instruments of religious devotion produced in New Mexico from around 1760 until the radical transformation of the tradition in the twentieth century. The writers in this volume make three key arguments. First, they make a case for bringing new theoretical perspectives and research strategies to bear on the New Mexican materials and other colonial contexts. Second, they demonstrate that the New Mexican materials provide an excellent case study for rethinking many of the most fundamental questions in art-historical and anthropological study. Third, the authors collectively argue that the New Mexican images had, and still have, importance to diverse audiences and makers. The distinctiveness of New Mexican santos consists not only in their subjects (which conformed to Catholic Reformation tastes) but also in elements that may appear to have been 'merely decorative': graphically striking and frequently elaborate abstract design motifs and landscape references. Despite their anonymity, the images are, as a group, readily distinguished from local products anywhere else in the Spanish colonial world. This distinctiveness suggests that we should inquire not so much about the individual identities of their makers as about the collective identity of the society and place that produced and used them." -- From the Publisher.

Alternative Title

New Mexican santos in-between worlds

Subject

• Cultural fusion and the arts
• Ethnicity > New Mexico
• Folk art > New Mexico > Foreign influences
• Santos (Art) > New Mexico

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [315]-338) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Mediating ethnicity and culture : framing New Mexico as a case study / Claire Farago -- The semiotics of images and political realities / Claire Farago -- The active reception of international artistic sources in New Mexico / Donna Pierce -- Interleaf A : possible political allusions in some New Mexican santos / Donna Pierce -- The formative era for New Mexico's colonial population: 1693-1700 / José Antonio Esquibel -- The dynamic ethnicity of the people of Spanish colonial New Mexico in the Eighteenth century / Paul Kraemer -- Interleaf B : possible approaches to future research based on the human genome project / Paul Kraemer -- Hybrid households : a cross section of New Mexican material culture / Donna Pierce and Cordelia Thomas Snow -- The early santeros of New Mexico / Marianne L. Stoller -- Interleaf C : the life of an artist : the case of captain Bernardo Miera y Pacheco / Donna Pierce -- Hide painting in New Mexico : new archival evidence / Donna Pierce -- Hide paintings, print sources, and the early expression of a New Mexican colonial identity / Kelly Donahue-Wallace -- Transforming images : "managing the interstices with a measure of creativity" / Claire Farago -- Interleaf D : sound, image, and identity : the matachines danza across borders / Brenda Romero -- Competing religious discourses in postcolonial New Mexico / Claire Farago -- Tradition reconfigured : Juan A. Sanchez, Patrociño Barela, and new deal saint making / Thomas L. Riedel -- Current approaches to problems of attribution / Robin Farwell Gavin -- Saints alive : santos in contemporary life / Dinah Zeiger -- Interleaf E : Catholicism and the Pueblo missions of New Mexico / Carmella Padilla -- Re(f)using art : Aby Warburg and the ethics of scholarship / Claire Farago.

ISBN

• 0271026901 (clothbound : alk. paper)
• 9780271026909

LCCN

^^2005026152

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Harvard Library