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Author:

Russo, Alessandra, 1972- author.

Title:

The untranslatable image : a mestizo history of the arts in New Spain, 1500-1600 / by Alessandra Russo ; translated from the French by Susan Emanuel.

Edition:

First English-language edition.

Publisher:

University of Texas Press,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

xiv, 357 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Art, Latin American.
Art, Colonial--Latin America.
Indian art--Latin America.
Cultural fusion and the arts--Latin America.

Other Authors:

Emanuel, Susan, translator.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Prologue: from one triptych to another -- Introduction: at the frontiers of art histories -- A triptych from New Spain -- Treasures -- Figures -- Malicias -- Images between words -- Mosaics -- Landscape -- Scratching -- The creation of unexpected languages -- Relics of ixiptla -- Circular realism -- Figurative condensation -- Conclusion: untranslatable images?

Series:

Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long series in Latin American and Latino art and culture

ISBN:

0292754140 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780292754140 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0292754132 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780292754133 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)862399391

LCCN:

2013030224

Locations:

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

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)