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Foundational arts : mural painting and missionary theater in New Spain /

"Foundational Arts examines how the relationships between mural painting and missionary theater became a transcultural process for mass conversion of Native populations to Christianity. Schuessler studies the New World expressions of dramatic and plastic arts and how they became the tools of Eu...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Schuessler, Michael Karl (Autor)
Otros Autores: Martínez Vega, Leonardo
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Español
Publicado: Tucson, Arizona : The University of Arizona Press, 2013.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction. Texts and contexts: 'bookish' architecture, mural painting, and theatricality in colonial Mexico
  • Toward a literature of foundations. Indo-Christian literature: renascent genres
  • Ethno-dramatic performances in pre-Hispanic Mexico: rite, theater or spiritual performance?
  • Nahuatl missionary theater
  • Renascent genres in New Spain. The evangelization of the imaginary: catechesis and education in New Spain
  • Mural painting in New Spain: a singular artistic expression
  • Iconography and evangelization. New World iconology
  • The Augustinian monastery at San Miguel Itzmiquilpan
  • Itzmiquilpan's pictorial program and the 'Service codex'
  • The Last Judgment: mural painting and missionary theater. Franciscan and Augustinian millennialism
  • Andrés de Olmos's El Juicio Final (the Last Judgment): New Spain's first religious drama
  • The mural cycle at San Nicolás Actopan
  • Final considerations
  • Appendix: The Last Judgment, attributed to fray Andrés de Olmos.