Research Catalog

Title

Buen gusto and classicism in the visual cultures of Latin America, 1780-1910 / edited by Paul B. Niell and Stacie G. Widdifield.

Publication

Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, [2013]

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Additional Authors

• Niell, Paul B., 1976-
• Widdifield, Stacie G., 1953-

Description

xxxv, 292 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"The promotion of classicism in the visual arts in late eighteenth and nineteenth-century Latin America and the need to "revive" buen gusto (good taste) are the themes of this collection of essays. The contributors provide new insights into neoclassicism and buen gusto as cultural, not just visual, phenomena in the late colonial and early national periods and promote new approaches to the study of Latin American art history and visual culture.The essays examine neoclassical visual culture from assorted perspectives. They consider how classicism was imposed, promoted, adapted, negotiated, and contested in myriad social, political, economic, cultural, and temporal situations. Case studies show such motivations as the desire to impose imperial authority, to fashion the nationalist self, and to form and maintain new social and cultural ideologies. The adaptation of classicism and buen gusto in the Americas was further shaped by local factors, including the realities of place and the influence of established visual and material traditions"--

Subjects

• Art and society > Latin America
• Classicism in architecture > Latin America
• Aesthetics
• Classicism in art > Latin America

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Manuel Tolsi's equestrian statue of Charles IV and buen gusto in late colonial Mexico / Susan Deans-Smith -- Gothic taste vs. buen gusto : creolism, urban space, and aesthetic discourse in late colonial Peru / Isaac D. Sáenz -- El templete : classicism and the dialects of colonial urban space in early nineteenth-century Havana, Cuba / Paul B. Niell -- Neoclassical Pompai in early twentieth-century Cartagena de Indias, Colombia / Carla Bocchetti -- A taste for art in late colonial New Spain / Kelly Donahue-Wallace -- The plantation landscape and its architecture : classicism, representation, and slavery / Charles Burroughs -- Buen gusto and the transition to nation, 1830-1850 / Magali Carrera -- A western mirage on the Bolivian altiplano / Robert Bradley -- The language of line in late eighteenth-century New Spain : the calligraphic equestrian portrait of Bernardo de Gálvez (1796) / Ray Hernández-Durán -- Art and viceregal taste in late colonial Lima and Buenos Aires / Emily Engel -- From baroque triumphalism to neoclassical renunciation : altarpieces of the cathedral of Cuzco in the era of independence / Maya Stanfield-Mazzi -- Buen gusto and classicism in the late nineteenth-century : an appraisal in the context of the 1881 centennial of Mexico's Academy of San Carlos / Stacie G. Widdifield.

Call Number

JQE 14-229

ISBN

• 9780826353764 (hardback)
• 0826353762 (hardback)
• 9780826353771 (electronic) (canceled/invalid)
• 0826353770 (electronic) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2013027323

OCLC

840460672

Title

Buen gusto and classicism in the visual cultures of Latin America, 1780-1910 / edited by Paul B. Niell and Stacie G. Widdifield.

Publisher

Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, [2013]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Added Author

Niell, Paul B., 1976- editor.

Widdifield, Stacie G., 1953- editor.

Research Call Number

JQE 14-229