The arts in Latin America, 1492-1820
By: organized by Joseph J. Rishel with Suzanne Stratton-Pruitt.
Contributors: Rishel, Joseph J.; Stratton, Suzanne L.; Philadelphia Museum of Art.; Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso (Museum); Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Philadelphia Museum of Art series
Publisher: Philadelphia Museum of Art; Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Yale University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Philadelphia, PA; Mexico City; [Los Angeles]; New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 568
ISBN-13: 9780300120035
Subjects: Art, Latin American -- Exhibitions; Art, Colonial -- Latin America -- Exhibitions
Genres: Exhibitions.
Notes: Published on the occasion of exhibitions held at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, fall 2006; Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso, Mexico City, winter/spring 2007; and Los Angeles County Museum of Art, summer 2007.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 536-563).
Table of contents: title: Art in colonial Latin America: a brief critical review / Joseph J. Rishel; title: Colonial foundations: points of contact and compatibility / Elizabeth Hill Boone and Thomas B.F. Cummins; title: Spanish American colonial city: its origins, development, and functions / Alfonso Ortiz Crespo; title: Black hand: notes on the African presence in the visual arts of Brazil and the Caribbean / Edward J. Sullivan; title: Asia in the arts of colonial Latin America / Gauvin Alexander Bailey; title: Parallel course of Latin American and European art in the viceregal era / Marcus Burke; title: Artisans and artists in Ibero-America from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century / M. Concepción García Sáiz; title: Decorative arts in Latin America, 1492-1820 / Mitchell A. Codding; title: Textiles in colonial Latin America / Dilys E. Blum; title: Dressing colonial, dressing diaspora / Gridley McKim-Smith; title: Silver and silverwork, wealth and art in viceregal America / Cristina Esteras Martín; title: Art of silver in colonial Brazil / Nuno Senos; title: Exotic devotion: sculpture in viceregal America and Brazil, 1520-1820 / Marjorie Trusted; title: Changing faces: the re-emergence of a sacred landscape in colonial Mexico and Peru / Adrian Locke; title: Painting in colonial Latin America / Clara Bargellini; title: Stars in the sea of the church: the Indian in eighteenth-century new Spanish painting / Ilona Katzew; title: Observations on the origin, development, and manufacture of Latin American furniture / Jorge F. Rivas P.