Woman and art in early modern Latin America [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Kellen Kee McIntyre and Richard E. Phillips

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910777019203321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, c2007
• ISBN: 1-281-40061-0; 9786611400613; 90-474-1099-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (469 p.)
• Collana: Atlantic world, , 1570-0542 ; ; v. 10
• Altri autori (Persone): McIntyreKellen Kee; PhillipsRichard E
• Disciplina: 709.8
• Soggetti: Women in art; Art, Latin American - Spanish influences; Art, Latin American - 16th century; Art, Latin American - 17th century; Art, Latin American - 18th century; Art, Latin American - 19th century
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: pt. 1. Reconnaissance : marking and mapping the New World with the female body -- pt. 2. Taking possession : appropriations of the New World/female body -- pt. 3. Consolidation : the qualifying and taming of the New World/female body with signifieds -- pt. 4. Fulfillment : the extension and expression of the female body in the New World.
• Sommario/riassunto: This anthology centers on the visual representation of woman in early modern Latin America, that is, the social and cultural construction and definition of female identity as evidenced by the art document. Artists in this period were collectively aware of a vocabulary of gender that could be tailored to deliver varying messages about the position of women in vice regal culture and society. This volume is organized not in the predictable linear framework, by periods and centuries, but rather by the realization that throughout much of this period, Spanish authorities and others envisaged the Spanish colonies of the Americas in gendered terms. Proffered as the female body, the “New” (virginal by ; implication) World was at differing times adored, pursued, courted, seduced, defiled, exploited, reviled, and denounced by those (males) who encountered “her.” This mentality is born out in the various forms of female representation that are discussed in this fully illustrated book. Contributors include: C. Cody Barteet, María Elena Bernal-García, Magali M. Carrera, Carol E. Damian, Carolyn Dean, Catherine R. DiCesare, Lori Boornazian Diel, Kelly Donahue-Wallace, Ray Hernandez-Duran, Andrea Lepage, Kellen Kee McIntyre, Penny Morrill, Elizabeth Q. Perry, Richard E. Phillips, Michael J. Schreffler, and Christopher C. Wilson. ERRATUM TO CHAPTER 7 Ray Hernández-Durán, “ El Encuentro de Cortés y Moctezuma : The Betrothal of Two Worlds in Eighteenth-Century New Spain” (pp. 181–206). On page 194, second paragraph, third sentence, should read: “Marina’s absence in the encounter painting, where she normally mediates contact between the men, emphasizes the phallogocentric aspect of the historic meeting.” The original phrasing, using the pivotal term, ‘phallogocentric’ (a reference to a gendered form of exchange or communication) was changed to ‘phallus-centered,’ which not only alters a central idea in the argument, but actually has nothing to do with the image in question.