ARTH640- Art and religion in the New World

Reading assignment for Oct. 26

Expurgating Images: Idolatry, Art and Censorship

Required readings:

· Bailey, Arts of the colonial aristocracy, p. 313-354

· Villaseñor Black, Charlene. “St Anne imagery and maternal types in Spain and Mexico” in: Greer, Allan, and Jodi Bilinkoff, ed. Colonial saints: discovering the holy in the Americas, 1500-1800: Routledge, 2003, pp. 3-29. Morris BX4659. A45 C65 2003

· Myers, Kathleen A. “‘Redeemer of America’ Rosa de Lima (1586-1617), the dynamics of identity and canonization” in: Greer, Allan, and Jodi Bilinkoff, ed. Colonial saints: discovering the holy in the Americas, 1500-1800: Routledge, 2003, 251-275. Morris BX4659. A45 C65 2003

· Hammer, Kirsten. “Monjas Coronadas: The Crown Nuns of Viceregal Mexico” in: Retratos: 2,000 Years of Latin American Portraits. Yale University Press, 2004, pp. 86-100. Morris Folio N7595.5 .R48 2004  

· Donahue-Wallace, Kelly. “La casada imperfecta: "A Woman, a Print, and the Inquisition"” Mexican Studies / Estudios Mexicanos, Vol. 18, No. 2. (Summer, 2002), pp. 231-250. [URL: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0742-9797%28200222%2918%3A2%3C231%3ALCI%22WA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-E]

Recommended readings:

· Monjas coronadas: vida conventual femenina en Hispanoamérica. México, D.F.: Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia/Museo Nacional del Virreinato: Landucci, 2003. BX4220.L29 M66 2003