Casta painting : images of race in eighteenth-century Mexico / Ilona Katzew.
2004
ND1312.M44 K37 2004 (Mapit)
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Title
Casta painting : images of race in eighteenth-century Mexico / Ilona Katzew.
Author
Katzew, Ilona.
ISBN
9780300109719 (pbk.)
0300109717 (pbk.)
9780300102413 (alk. paper)
0300102410 (alk. paper)
0300109717 (pbk.)
9780300102413 (alk. paper)
0300102410 (alk. paper)
Imprint
New Haven : Yale University Press, c2004.
Language
English
Description
242 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.
Call Number
ND1312.M44 K37 2004
Dewey Decimal Classification
757/.0972/09033
Summary
"With over two hundred illustrations, including some of casta sets and other visual materials that have never been published before, the book draws on a variety of archival sources to provide the most comprehensive study of casta painting to date. Katzew considers how casta painting developed art historically, why race became the subject of a pictorial genre that spanned an entire century, who commissioned and collected the works, and what meanings the works held for contemporary audiences. The book sheds new light on racial dynamics of eighteenth-century Mexico and on the ways the colonial elite attempted to order an increasingly confusing society.
While casta paintings can be placed within contemporary European concepts of the exotic and the impetus to classify, Katzew demonstrates that the genre also reveals aspects of the construction of identity and self-image unique to the colonial world."--BOOK JACKET.
While casta paintings can be placed within contemporary European concepts of the exotic and the impetus to classify, Katzew demonstrates that the genre also reveals aspects of the construction of identity and self-image unique to the colonial world."--BOOK JACKET.
Note
While casta paintings can be placed within contemporary European concepts of the exotic and the impetus to classify, Katzew demonstrates that the genre also reveals aspects of the construction of identity and self-image unique to the colonial world."--BOOK JACKET.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-237) and index.
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Painters and paintings: a visual tradition and its historiography
"A marvelous variety of colors?": racial ideology and the Sistema de Castas
The rise of Casta painting: exoticism and Creole pride, 1711-1760
Changing perspectives: Casta painting in the era of the Bourbon reforms, 1760-1790
The theater of marvels: Casta paintings in the textual microcosmos.
"A marvelous variety of colors?": racial ideology and the Sistema de Castas
The rise of Casta painting: exoticism and Creole pride, 1711-1760
Changing perspectives: Casta painting in the era of the Bourbon reforms, 1760-1790
The theater of marvels: Casta paintings in the textual microcosmos.