Publisher:
Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes, Aguascalientes, Ags., México
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UACM, Ciudad de México
The construction of memory is not static but rather in movement, in such a way that the Casta Paintings can exemplify a changing reality at the same time that we observe the transformations in the way of understanding them. At present, these secular...
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Bibliotheca Hertziana - Max-Planck-Institut für Kunstgeschichte
The construction of memory is not static but rather in movement, in such a way that the Casta Paintings can exemplify a changing reality at the same time that we observe the transformations in the way of understanding them. At present, these secular paintings begin to acquire relevance to the point of representing the "ultra-baroque" or the late baroque, a kind of irony that, as William Taylor suggested, is part of the rebellions typical of the Latin American baroque. In addition to this historiographical perspective, some fundamental elements for its understanding have been incorporated into this work: the "discovery of the people", the iconography of the Holy Family and the desire for dark skin. Thus, it concludes with the analysis of more than five hundred Casta Paintings found on the platform coordinated by Professor Jaime Humberto Borja Gómez, through the ARCa Colonial Painting in the Americas Project.
Prefacio -- Introducción -- El escenario barroco: La reinvención de la metáfora -- El discurso historiográfico -- La construcción de un estigma -- El descubrimiento del pueblo -- El escenario iconográfico: la Sagrada familia -- Apología del mestizaje o el obscuro obieto del deseo -- Reflexiones finales
