Heaven, Hell, and Everything in Between

Murals of the Colonial Andes

Ananda Cohen Suarez (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

304 Seiten

2016
University of Texas Press (Verlag)
978-1-4773-0954-4 (ISBN)

Infos

Examining the vivid, often apocalyptic church murals of Peru from the early colonial period through the nineteenth century, Heaven, Hell, and Everything in Between explores the sociopolitical situation represented by the artists who generated these murals for rural parishes. Arguing that the murals were embedded in complex networks of trade, commerce, and the exchange of ideas between the Andes and Europe, Ananda Cohen-Aponte also considers the ways in which artists and viewers worked through difficult questions of envisioning sacredness.

This study brings to light the fact that, unlike the murals of New Spain, the murals of the Andes possess few direct visual connections to a pre-Columbian painting tradition; the Incas’ preference for abstracted motifs created a problem for visually translating Catholic doctrine to indigenous congregations, as the Spaniards were unable to read Inca visual culture. Nevertheless, as Cohen Suarez demonstrates, colonial murals of the Andes can be seen as a reformulation of a long-standing artistic practice of adorning architectural spaces with images that command power and contemplation. Drawing on extensive secondary and archival sources, including account books from the churches, as well as on colonial Spanish texts, Cohen Suarez urges us to see the murals not merely as decoration or as tools of missionaries but as visual archives of the complex negotiations among empire, communities, and individuals.

Autor

Ananda Cohen Suarez is an assistant professor of history of art at Cornell University. She coauthored Handbook to Life in the Inca World.

Inhalt

Introduction    

Chapter One: The Painted Walls of the Andes: Chronology, Techniques, and Meanings    
Chapter Two: The Road to Hell is Paved with Flowers: Journeys to the Afterlife at the Church of Andahuaylillas    
Chapter Three: Clothing the Architectonic Body: Textile Murals of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries    
Chapter Four: Turning the Jordan River into a Pacarina:  Murals of the Baptism of Christ at the Churches of Urcos and Pitumarca    
Chapter Five: Earthly Violence/Divine Justice: Tadeo Escalante’s Murals at the Church of Huaro    

Conclusion    

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Produkt-Details

• Erscheinungsdatum: 08.06.2016
• Reihe/Serie: Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas
• Verlagsort: Austin, TX
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 152 x 229 mm
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
• ISBN-10: 1-4773-0954-3 / 1477309543
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4773-0954-4 / 9781477309544
• Zustand: Neuware