Lettered Artists and the Languages of Empire

Name: Lettered Artists and the Languages of Empire
Brand: University of Texas Press
SKU: 9781477313282
Price: 19828 HUF
Availability: InStock

Painters and the Profession in Early Colonial Quito

Szerző: Susan Verdi Webster

Nyelv:

Kötés: Kemény kötésű

Kiadó: University of Texas Press

Elérhetőség: 50 % esély

Keressük az egész világon

19 828 Ft

Arvey Foundation Book Award, Association for Latin American Art, 2019Quito, Ecuador, was one of colo...

Információk a könyvről

Szerző

Susan Verdi Webster

Nyelv

Angol

Kötés

Könyv - Kemény kötésű

Kiadva

2017

oldal

352

EAN

9781477313282

ISBN

1477313281

Enbook ID

16217000

Kiadó

University of Texas Press

Súly

982

Méretek

262 x 190 x 35

Teljes leírás

Arvey Foundation Book Award, Association for Latin American Art, 2019Quito, Ecuador, was one of colonial South America’s most important artistic centers. Yet the literature on painting in colonial Quito largely ignores the first century of activity, reducing it to a “handful of names,” writes Susan Verdi Webster. In this major new work based on extensive and largely unpublished archival documentation, Webster identifies and traces the lives of more than fifty painters who plied their trade in the city between 1550 and 1650, revealing their mastery of languages and literacies and the circumstances in which they worked in early colonial Quito. Overturning many traditional assumptions about early QuiteÑo artists, Webster establishes that these artists-most of whom were Andean-functioned as visual intermediaries and multifaceted cultural translators who harnessed a wealth of specialized knowledge to shape graphic, pictorial worlds for colonial audiences. Operating in an urban mediascape of layered languages and empires-a colonial Spanish realm of alphabetic script and mimetic imagery and a colonial Andean world of discursive graphic, material, and chromatic forms-QuiteÑo painters dominated both the pen and the brush. Webster demonstrates that the QuiteÑo artists enjoyed fluency in several areas, ranging from alphabetic literacy and sophisticated scribal conventions to specialized knowledge of pictorial languages: the materials, technologies, and chemistry of painting, in addition to perspective, proportion, and iconography. This mastery enabled artists to deploy languages and literacies-alphabetic, pictorial, graphic, chromatic, and material-to obtain power and status in early colonial Quito.

Érdekelheti

Azok a vásárlók, akik ezt a könyvet megvásárolták, a következőket is megvásárolták

Leggyakrabban keresett

Categories

Authors

Publishers

Termékek

Termékek

Leggyakrabban keresett

Categories

Authors

Publishers

Termékek

Termékek

Lettered Artists and the Languages of Empire

Painters and the Profession in Early Colonial Quito

Információk a könyvről

Teljes leírás

Érdekelheti

Azok a vásárlók, akik ezt a könyvet megvásárolták, a következőket is megvásárolták