ARTH640- Art and religion in the New World

Reading assignment for Sep. 28

Communicating with the Spiritual Other: Art in the New World Missions

Required readings:

· Bailey, Idols and altars, p. 209-260

· Gruzinski, Serge. “War” in: Gruzinski, Serge. Images at war: Mexico from Columbus to Blade Runner (1492-2019). Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2001, p. 30-60

· Lara, Jaime. “The cosmic tree” in: Lara, Jaime. City, temple, stage: eschatological architecture and liturgical theatrics in New Spain. Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 2004, 151-175.

· Edgerton, Samuel Y. “The convento as theater. Medieval autos and Nahua Neixcuitilli” in: Edgerton, Samuel Y. Theaters of conversion: religious architecture and Indian artisans in colonial Mexico. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2001, pp. 154-171. Morris Library N 7914 .A1 E34 2001

· Bargellini, Clara. “At the center of the frontier: The Jesuit Tarahumara missions of New Spain” in: Kaufmann, Thomas DaCosta, and Elizabeth Pilliod, ed. Time and place: the geohistory of art: Ashgate, 2005, 113-134. Morris ND253 .P54 2004. Part 1, Part 2