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Foundational Arts : Mural Painting and Missionary Theater in New Spain /

This book examines how the relationships between mural painting and missionary theater became a transcultural process for mass conversion of Native populations to Christianity. The author studies the New World expressions of dramatic and plastic arts and how they became the tools of European friars...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Schuessler, Michael Karl
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Tucson : University of Arizona Press, 2014.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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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
  • Renascent Genres in New Spain
  • Iconography and Evangelization
  • The Last Judgment : Mural Painting and Missionary Theater
  • Appendix : The Last Judgment.