Imagining Identity in New Spain: Race, Lineage, and the Colonial Body in Portraiture and Casta Paintings
(Part of the Latin American and Latino Art and Culture Series)
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Using an interdisciplinary approach that also considers legal, literary, and religious documents of the period, Magali Carrera focuses on eighteenth-century portraiture and casta paintings to understand how the people and spaces of New Spain were conceptualized and visualized.
Reacting to the rising numbers of mixed-blood (Spanish-Indian-Black African) people in its...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:029274417X
ISBN13:9780292744172
Release Date:April 2003
Publisher:University of Texas Press
Length:216 Pages
Weight:0.25 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 6.0" x 9.1"
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