Converging cultures
Subtitle: art & identity in Spanish America
By: edited by Diana Fane ; with essays by Diana Fane ... [et al.].
Contributors: Fane, Diana.; Brooklyn Museum.; Phoenix Art Museum.; Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780810940307; 9780872731349
Subjects: Art, Mexican -- Exhibitions; Art, Colonial -- Mexico -- Exhibitions; Indian art -- Mexico -- Exhibitions; Art, Peruvian -- Exhibitions; Art, Colonial -- Peru -- Exhibitions; Indian art -- Peru -- Exhibitions
Genres: Exhibitions
Description: With the conquest of Mexico by Cortez and of Peru by Pizarro in the sixteenth century, two great American civilizations were brought under the control of the Spanish crown. The arrival in the newly taken territories of settlers from Spain forced an encounter between highly sophisticated cultures that had developed independently for thousands of years.

In the course of the Spanish occupation of Mexico (New Spain) and Peru for three centuries, this confrontation of divergent ways of seeing and experiencing the world gave rise to new Latin American cultural traditions.

Using as examples a selection of works from the collection of The Brooklyn Museum, Converging Cultures: Art & Identity in Spanish America documents these cultural continuities and transformations as evidenced in illustrated books, painting, sculpture, furniture, textiles, and other artifacts of everyday life in Spanish America from the Precolumbian period to the nineteenth century.

These expressive and beautiful works testify to the strength and scope of Latin American creativity through several centuries of upheaval and renewal.
Notes: Catalog of an exhibition held at the Brooklyn Museum, March 1-July 14, 1996; Phoenix Art Museum, December 14, 1996-February 23, 1997; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, March 30-June 8, 1997.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: From Precolumbian to modern : Latin American art at the Brooklyn Museum, 1930-50 / Diana Fane; title: European painting and the art of the New World colonies / Edward J. Sullivan; title: The Monarchía Indiana in seventeenth-century New Spain / Emily Umberger; title: From New Spain to New Mexico : art and culture on the northern frontier / Donna Pierce; title: The Algara Romero de Terreros collection : a Mexican aristocratic family in the colonial era / Kevin L. Stayton; title: Textiles as cultural memory : Andean garments in the colonial period / Elena J. Phipps; title: A tale of two cities : Cuzco, Lima, and the construction of colonial representation / Tom Cummins; title: The renewal of old world images and the creation of colonial Peruvian visual culture / Carolyn Dean.