Casta painting :
images of race in eighteenth-century Mexico /
Ilona Katzew.

Description

Main Author

Katzew, Ilona.

Language(s)

English

Published

New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2004.

Subjects

18e siècle.
Société
Métissage.
Peinture mexicaine.
Peinture de portrait.
Colonie espagnole.
Stamm > Stamm / Ethnologie
Spanier > Spanier / Motiv
Schwarze > Schwarze / Motiv
Rassenmischung > Rassenmischung / Motiv
Malerei
Indianer > Indianer / Motiv
Racially mixed people in art.
Miscegenation in art.
Manners and customs.
Casta painting.
Métissage dans l'art.
Métis dans l'art.
Peinture des castes.
Miscegenation in art.
Racially mixed people in art.
Casta painting.
Mexique.
Mexiko
Mexico.
Mexique > Mexique / Mœurs et coutumes > Mexique / Mœurs et coutumes / 18e siècle.
Mexico > Mexico / Social life and customs > Mexico / Social life and customs / 18th century.
Bildband.

Summary

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."--Jacket.
"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.

Physical Description

242 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm

ISBN

0300109717
9780300109719
9780300102413
0300102410

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