Pictured Politics: Visualizing Colonial History in South American Portrait Collections - Couverture rigide

Engel, Emily

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1477320598 ISBN 13 : 9781477320594

Editeur : University of Texas Press, 2020

Synopsis

The Spanish colonial period in South America saw artists develop the subgenre of official portraiture, or portraits of key individuals in the continent’s viceregal governments. Although these portraits appeared to illustrate a narrative of imperial splendor and absolutist governance, they instead became a visual record of the local history that emerged during the colonial occupation.

Using the official portrait collections accumulated between 1542 and 1830 in Lima, Buenos Aires, and BogotÁ as a lens, Pictured Politics explores how official portraiture originated and evolved to become an essential component in the construction of Ibero-American political relationships. Through the surviving portraits and archival evidence-including political treatises, travel accounts, and early periodicals-Emily Engel demonstrates that these official portraits not only belie a singular interpretation as tools of imperial domination but also visualize the continent's multilayered history of colonial occupation. The first stand alone analysis of South American portraiture, Pictured Politics brings to light the historical relevance of political portraits in crafting the history of South American colonialism.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Emily Engel is an independent scholar based in Southern California who has published widely on visual culture in early modern South America. She is a coeditor of Manuscript Cultures of Colonial Mexico and Peru: New Questions and Approaches and A Companion to Early Modern Lima, as well as the founding associate editor of Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Texas Press
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1477320598
• ISBN 13: 9781477320594
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 184
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• Personne responsable: non disponible