Painted in Mexico, 1700-1790 : Pinxit Mexici / edited by Ilona Katzew /
This stunning volume represents the first serious effort to reposition the history of 18th-century Mexican painting, a highly vibrant period marked by major stylistic changes and the invention of new iconographies. Exquisitely illustrated with newly commissioned photography of never-before-published...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Los Angeles, California : Mexico City : Munich ; New York :
Los Angeles County Museum of Art ; Fomento Cultural Banamex, A.C. ; DelMonico Books/Prestel,
[2017]
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| Summary: | This stunning volume represents the first serious effort to reposition the history of 18th-century Mexican painting, a highly vibrant period marked by major stylistic changes and the invention of new iconographies. Exquisitely illustrated with newly commissioned photography of never-before-published artworks, the book provides a broad view of the connections of Mexican painting with transatlantic artistic trends and emphasizes its own internal developments and remarkable pictorial output. During this time painters were increasingly asked to create mural-size paintings to cover the walls of sacristies, choirs, staircases, cloisters, and university halls among others. Significantly, the same artists also produced portraits, casta paintings (depictions of racial mixing), folding screens, and finely rendered devotional images, attesting to their extraordinary versatility. Authored by leading experts in the field, the book's essays address the tradition and innovation of Mexican painting, the mobility of pictures within and outside the viceroyalty, the political role of images, and the emphasis on ornamentation.00Exhibition: Fomento Cultural Banamex, A.C., Mexico City, Mexico (15.06.-15.10.2017) / Los Angeles County Museum of Art, USA (19.11.2017-18.03.2018) / Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA (23.04.-22.07.2018). |
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| Item Description: | "Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA, Latin American & Latino Art in LA"--Colophon. |
| Physical Description: | 511 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 32 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 482-497) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9783791356778 3791356771 |