ARTH640- Art and religion in the New World

Reading assignment for Sep. 7

Historiographic Review: Mestizaje, Syncretism and Hybridity in Colonial Latin America

• Bailey, First Encounters, p. 19-68; The indigenous response, p.71-108

• Gruzinski, Serge. “Images and Cultural Mestizaje in Colonial Mexico” Poetics Today, Vol. 16, No. 1, Loci of Enunciation and Imaginary Constructions: The Case of (Latin) America, II. (Spring, 1995), pp. 53-77. [URL: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0333-5372%28199521%2916%3A1%3C53%3AIACMIC%3E2.0.CO%3B2-A]

• Kaufmann, Thomas DaCosta. “Mastery or Mestizaje? Placing an interpretation of the façade of San Lorenzo, Potosí” in: Toward a geography of art, University of Chicago Press, 2004, pp. 272-299

• Dean, Carolyn and Dana Leibsohn, "Hybridity and its Discontents: Considering Visual Culture in Colonial Spanish America,” Colonial Latin American Review 12, no. 1 (2003), pp. 5-35