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Author:

Hernández-Durán, Raymond, author. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr99036598

Title:

The Academy of San Carolos and Mexican art history : politics, history, and art in nineteenth-century Mexico / by Ray Hernández-Durán.

Publisher:

Routledge,

Copyright Date:

2017

Description:

xix, 174 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Subject:

Academia Nacional de San Carlos (Mexico)
Museum techniques--Mexico City--Mexico City--History--19th century.
Art, Spanish colonial--Mexico--Historiography.
Historiography--Mexico--History--19th century.
Nationalism and historiography--Latin America.

Notes:

"An Ashgate book"--Cover. Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-168) and index.

Contents:

A Historiography of Colonial Art in Mexico: Problems, Context, and Developments -- Locating a Colonial Past in the Nation's Memory: The Politics of Making History -- The Academy of San Carlos and the Old Mexican School: Collecting and Displaying Colonial Painting -- Writing a History of Art in Mexico: From Spectacular Verses to Rational Texts -- Concluding Remarks: Contested Ground.

Summary:

The first substantial Mexican colonial art historiography in English, this book examines the origin of the study of colonial art in Mexico as a symptom of the development of modern museum practice in mid-nineteenth-century Mexico City. Also an intellectual history, this study recognizes the role of nationalism in the initiation of art historical practice in what is understood today more broadly as Latin America. Although there has been a steady stream of scholarship produced about the subject, beginning in Mexico and increasingly in the United States, what is variably known as viceregal or colonial Mexican, Spanish colonial, and colonial Latin American art continues to be underplayed or overlooked by most art historians and is thus marginal in the field of art history. Ray Hernández-Durán redresses that omission, presenting a detailed examination of the origin of the study of colonial art in Mexico. Drawing upon archival research, this volume touches upon the role of politics on the formation of the first gallery of Mexican painting in the Academy of San Carlos and the first comprehensive historical treatment of the material in the form of a dialogue. Furthermore, this study promotes further research in colonial art historiography and underlines the pivotal role that the Indo-Hispanic Americas played in the emergence of early modernity and the process of globalization.

Series:

Studies in art historiography ; 12

ISBN:

1409434125
9781409434122

OCLC:

(OCoLC)951742569

LCCN:

2016027184

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)