ARTH640- Art and religion in the New World

Reading assignment for Oct. 12

Private Devotions: The Rituals of Everyday Life

Required readings:

· Freedberg, David. “Invisibilia per visibilia: Meditation and the uses of theory” in: The power of images: studies in the history and theory of response. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989, p. 161-191

· William Wroth, “Penitential practices in colonial Mexico” in: Images of penance, images of mercy: southwestern santos in the late nineteenth century. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1991, pp. 20-39.

· Flynn, Maureen. “The Spiritual Uses of Pain in Spanish Mysticism” Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Vol. 64, No. 2. (Summer, 1996), pp. 257-278.

[URL: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-7189%28199622%2964%3A2%3C257%3ATSUOPI%3E2.0.CO%3B2-7]

Recommended readings:

· Parshall, Peter. “The Art of Memory and the Passion” The Art Bulletin, Vol. 81, No. 3. (Sep., 1999), pp. 456-472. [URL: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0004-3079%28199909%2981%3A3%3C456%3ATAOMAT%3E2.0.CO%3B2-W]

· Vargas Lugo de Bosch, Elisa, “…El más hermoso de los hijos de los hombres…” in: Vargas Lugo de Bosch, Elisa, ed. Parábola novohispana: Cristo en el arte virreinal. México: Fomento Cultural Banamex, 2000, pp. 75-116.