ARTH640- Art and religion in the New World

Reading assignment for Oct. 5

Art, Ritual and Power in the New World: The Political Dimensions of Religious Art

Required readings:

· Bailey, Metropolitan Churches, p. 263-310

· Scavizzi, Giuseppe. “Theologians and artists in the Catholic world” in: Scavizzi, Giuseppe. The controversy on images from Calvin to Baronius. Peter Lang, 1992, pp.225-269.

· Careri, Giovanni. “The place of the viewer” in: Careri, Giovanni. Baroques. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003, pp. 61-80

· Larkin, Brian. "The Splendor of Worship: Baroque Catholicism, Religious Reform, and Last Wills and Testaments in Eighteenth-Century Mexico City" Colonial Latin American Historical Review 8, no. 4 (Fall 1999), pp.404-442

· Curcio-Nagy, Linda A. “Giants and Gypsies: Corpus Christi in colonial Mexico city” in: Beezley, W., Chreyl E. Martin and William E. French, ed. Rituals of rule, rituals of resistance:  public celebrations and popular culture in Mexico.  Wilmington, DE:  SR Books, 1994, pp. 1-26.

· Dean, Carolyn “Envisioning Corpus Christi” in: Dean, Carolyn. Inka bodies and the body of Christ: Corpus Christi in colonial Cuzco, Peru. Duke University Press, 1999, pp. 63-96.