ARTH640- Art and religion in the New World

Reading assignment for Nov. 2nd

Between Purgatory and Heaven: The Art of Death

Required readings:

· Eire, Carlos M. N. “Impressing God and neighbor” in: From Madrid to purgatory: the art and craft of dying in sixteenth-century Spain: Cambridge University Press, 1995, pp. 114-167. Morris BX1584 .E57 1995

· Cañeque, Alejandro. “Theater of Power: Writing and Representing the Auto de Fe in Colonial Mexico” The Americas, Vol. 52, No. 3. (Jan., 1996), pp. 321-343.[URL: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0003-1615%28199601%2952%3A3%3C321%3ATOPWAR%3E2.0.CO%3B2-9]

· Brandes, Stanley. “Iconography in Mexico's Day of the Dead: Origins and Meaning” Ethnohistory, Vol. 45, No. 2. (Spring, 1998), pp. 181-218. [URL: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0014-1801%28199821%2945%3A2%3C181%3AIIMDOT%3E2.0.CO%3B2-J]

· “Carne y muerte, gloria e inframundo” in: Juegos de ingenio y agudeza. La pintura emblemática de la Nueva España, México: Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes, 1994, pp. 253-307.