Contested Visions
dal 5/11/2011 al 28/1/2012
Segnalato da
5/11/2011
Contested Visions
Los Angeles County Museum of Art - LACMA, Los Angeles
In the Spanish Colonial World. A comparative view of the two principal viceroyalties of Spanish America - Mexico and Peru - from the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries.
Contested Visions in the Spanish Colonial World examines the significance of indigenous peoples within the artistic landscape of colonial Latin America. The exhibition offers a comparative view of the two principal viceroyalties of Spanish America—Mexico and Peru—from the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries. Under colonial rule, Amerindians were not a passive or homogenous group but instead commissioned art for their communities and promoted specific images of themselves as a polity. By taking into consideration the pre-Columbian (Inca and Aztec) origins of these two vast geopolitical regions and their continuities and ruptures over time, Contested Visions offers an arresting perspective on how art and power intersected in the Spanish colonial world. The exhibition is divided into themes:
Contested Visions
Tenochtitlan and Cuzco Pre-Columbian Antecedents
Ancient Styles in the New Era
Conquest and New World Orders
The Devotional Landscape and the Indian as Good Christian
Indian Festivals and Sacred Rituals
Memory, Genealogy, and Land
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Save the Date: 3-day Symposium
This exhibition was co-organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Mexico. It was made possible in part by Camilla Chandler Frost, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Additional support was provided by Alice and Nahum Lainer; Betty and Brack Duker; Ambassador Frank and Kathy Baxter; Carl and Marilynn Thoma Foundation; Derek Johns, Ltd., London; Coll & Cortés, Madrid; and Janet Dreisen Rappaport.
Contested Visions will travel to the Museo Nacional de Historia, Mexico City, where it will be on view July 6-October 7, 2012.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art - LACMA
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