ARTH640- Art and religion in the New World

Reading assignment for Oct. 26

Expurgating Images: Idolatry, Art and Censorship

Required readings:

· Morgan, David. “The violence of seeing” in: Morgan, David. The sacred gaze: religious visual culture in theory and practice: University of California Press, 2005, pp. 115-146. Morris N7790 .M667 2005

· Freedberg, David. “Johannes Molanus on Provocative Paintings. De Historia Sanctarum Imaginum et Picturarum, Book II, Chapter 42” Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, Vol. 34. (1971), pp. 229-245. [URL: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0075-4390%281971%2934%3C229%3AJMOPPD%3E2.0.CO%3B2-G]

· Mills, Kenneth. “Extirpation” in: Mills, Kenneth. Idolatry and its enemies: colonial Andean religion and extirpation, 1640-1750: Princeton University Press, 1997, pp. 267-285. Morris F 2230.2 .K4 M56 1997

· MacCormack, Sabine. “Demons, Imagination, and the Incas” Representations, No. 33, Special Issue: The New World. (Winter, 1991), pp. 121-146. [URL: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0734-6018%28199124%290%3A33%3C121%3ADIATI%3E2.0.CO%3B2-W]

Recommended readings:

· Klor de Alva, J. Jorge. “Colonizing souls: the failure of the Indian Inquisition and the rise of penitential discipline” in: Perry, Mary Elizabeth, Anne J. Cruz. Cultural encounters: the impact of the Inquisition in Spain and the New World: University of California Press, 1991, pp. 3-22. Morris BX1735 .C84 1991

· Cervantes, Fernando. “The Devils of Querétaro: Scepticism and Credulity in Late Seventeenth-Century Mexico” Past and Present, No. 130. (Feb., 1991), pp. 51-69. [URL: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0031-2746%28199102%290%3A130%3C51%3ATDOQSA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-P]

· Maquívar, María del Consuelo, “Cristo: La segunda persona de la Santísima Trinidad” in: Vargas Lugo de Bosch, Elisa, ed. Parábola novohispana: Cristo en el arte virreinal. México: Fomento Cultural Banamex, 2000, p. 151-173. N7914. A1 P37 2000

· Wadsworth, James E. "Celebrating St. Peter Martyr: The Inquisitional Brotherhood in Colonial Brazil," Colonial Latin America Historical Review 12, no. 2 (Spring 2003), pp. 173-227