The Routledge Hispanic Studies Companion to Colonial Latin America and the Caribbean (1492-1898), 2020
This essay analyzes approaches to the study of colonial materiality, art, and architecture in the... more This essay analyzes approaches to the study of colonial materiality, art, and architecture in the Americas. Topics include historiography, debates on nomenclature, indigenous survivals, varied artistic influences, theories of hybridity, and decolonial theory. The limits of current scholarship in addressing colonial materiality are addressed in a case study of enconchados. These hybrid artworks created in New Spain (Mexico) employ oil pigments and shell mosaic on wood panel, with diverse sources in Asian, European, and possibly Pre-Columbian art. This essay also addresses conceptions of the colonial archive and the ways in which epistemologies of knowledge shape study.
Remix Changing Conversations in Museums of the Americas, 2016
Celebrating the diversity of institutions in the United States, Latin America, and Canada, Remix ... more Celebrating the diversity of institutions in the United States, Latin America, and Canada, Remix aims to change the discourse about museums from the inside out, proposing a new, “panarchic”—nonhierarchical and adaptive—vision for museum practice. Selma Holo and Mari-Tere Álvarez offer an unconventional approach, one premised on breaching conventional systems of communication and challenging the dialogues that drive the field. Featuring more than forty authors in and around the museum world, Remix frames a series of vital case studies demonstrating how specific museums, large and small, have profoundly advanced or creatively redefined their goals to meet their ever-changing worlds.
While in San Francisco, California, in 1930 and 1931 to execute several mural commissions, includ... more While in San Francisco, California, in 1930 and 1931 to execute several mural commissions, including The Allegory of California and The Making of a Fresco, the famed Mexican muralist Diego Rivera also produced an associated sketchbook. In 49 charcoal drawings, plus two additional watercolor landscapes, Rivera sketched the land, industry, and people of Northern California, in particular miners and the mining environment, as well as important patrons of his work. In this article, we contextualize the sketchbook within the history of California, identify several sitters for Rivera's portrait sketches, and additionally suggest reattributing one of the sketches to the artist's wife, Frida Kahlo.
The Routledge Hispanic Studies Companion to Colonial Latin America and the Caribbean (1492-1898), 2020
This essay analyzes approaches to the study of colonial materiality, art, and architecture in the... more This essay analyzes approaches to the study of colonial materiality, art, and architecture in the Americas. Topics include historiography, debates on nomenclature, indigenous survivals, varied artistic influences, theories of hybridity, and decolonial theory. The limits of current scholarship in addressing colonial materiality are addressed in a case study of enconchados. These hybrid artworks created in New Spain (Mexico) employ oil pigments and shell mosaic on wood panel, with diverse sources in Asian, European, and possibly Pre-Columbian art. This essay also addresses conceptions of the colonial archive and the ways in which epistemologies of knowledge shape study.
Remix Changing Conversations in Museums of the Americas, 2016
Celebrating the diversity of institutions in the United States, Latin America, and Canada, Remix ... more Celebrating the diversity of institutions in the United States, Latin America, and Canada, Remix aims to change the discourse about museums from the inside out, proposing a new, “panarchic”—nonhierarchical and adaptive—vision for museum practice. Selma Holo and Mari-Tere Álvarez offer an unconventional approach, one premised on breaching conventional systems of communication and challenging the dialogues that drive the field. Featuring more than forty authors in and around the museum world, Remix frames a series of vital case studies demonstrating how specific museums, large and small, have profoundly advanced or creatively redefined their goals to meet their ever-changing worlds.
While in San Francisco, California, in 1930 and 1931 to execute several mural commissions, includ... more While in San Francisco, California, in 1930 and 1931 to execute several mural commissions, including The Allegory of California and The Making of a Fresco, the famed Mexican muralist Diego Rivera also produced an associated sketchbook. In 49 charcoal drawings, plus two additional watercolor landscapes, Rivera sketched the land, industry, and people of Northern California, in particular miners and the mining environment, as well as important patrons of his work. In this article, we contextualize the sketchbook within the history of California, identify several sitters for Rivera's portrait sketches, and additionally suggest reattributing one of the sketches to the artist's wife, Frida Kahlo.
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