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Author:

Edgerton, Samuel Y.

Title:

Theaters of conversion : religious architecture and Indian artisans in colonial Mexico / Samuel Y. Edgerton ; with photographs by Jorge Pérez de Lara ; drawings by Mark Van Stone, James E. Ivey, and the author.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

University of New Mexico Press,

Copyright Date:

c2001

Description:

xvii, 350 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm.

Subject:

Christian art and symbolism--Mexico
Church architecture--Mexico.
Missionaries--Mexico--History.

Other Authors:

Pérez de Lara, Jorge.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-344) and index.

Contents:

Religious architecture in "Those most remote provinces". ch. 11. millennium of the Mendicant friars -- ch. 2. The cross and the tree : the Christian convento as Indian cosmos -- ch. 3. The arch and the cave : open chapels in the Yucatán -- ch. 4. Indians and Renaissance art : Fray Pedro de Gante's School of Art at San José de Los Naturales -- ch. 5. Christian murals by Indian artists -- ch. 6. The convento as theater : medieval autos and nahua neixcuitill -- ch. 7. Stage and scenery -- ch. 8. The cloister as theater : Adam and Eve lost in Aztec paradise -- ch. 9. The convento as theater of memory -- ch. 10. "El Dorado" : the desolate desert conventos of New Mexico, 1598-1700 -- ch. 11. Religious architecture in "Those most remote provinces".

ISBN:

9780826322562
0826322565

OCLC:

(OCoLC)45195872

LCCN:

00011870

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella)