Enconchados: Political, cultural, and social implications of a new art in seventeenth-century New Spain
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Title
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Enconchados: Political, cultural, and social implications of a new art in seventeenth-century New Spain
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Identifier
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d_2009_2013:d5532a4200ed:11277
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identifier
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11680
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Creator
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Arisa, Miguel,
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Contributor
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Eloise Quinones Keber
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Date
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2012
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Art history | Art of the Spanish Colonies
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Abstract
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Seventeenth-century New Spain (Mexico) saw the rise of an art form that melded traditions from pre-Hispanic, Asian, and European styles. Enconchado paintings, so called because mother-of-pearl is inlaid mostly on canvas stretched on a panel, were produced in workshops in Mexico City and sent to the metropolis as gifts to the monarch or to noblemen. Around 300 of these unique works exist in museums in Europe and in the Americas today. Not surprisingly, the most common subject matter is religious; however, about one hundred of them depict the historical events that lead to the conquest of Mexico by Hernando Cortes.;Most scholarship has centered on the Asian and European influences on these works. This project investigates the three-pronged influences in a more egalitarian way, positing as much weight on the indigenous aspects as on the others. Furthermore, it contextualizes the production of these ideological works with the literature, histories, treatises, and other works of art produced in the viceroyalty of New Spain during this century when the rise of the Creole class (people born in Mexico of Spanish-born parents) was beginning to make its imprint in the economic, social, and cultural spheres.;By tracing the different threads that make up these works, their ideological impact, as well as their 300-year old histories, this dissertation aims for a better understanding of these works and the forces that made their production possible.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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2009_2013.csv
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degree
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Ph.D.
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Program
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Art History
