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

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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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Main Author: Schuessler, Michael Karl
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Tucson : University of Arizona Press, 2014.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Catholic Church.
Église catholique > Histoire > 16e siecle.
Catholic Church > Mexico > History > 16th century.
Theater > Religious aspects > Catholic Church.
Religious drama.
Mural painting and decoration, Mexican.
Indians of Mexico > Missions.
Evangelistic work.
Arts and religion.
Theâtre > Aspect religieux > Église catholique > Histoire.
Theâtre religieux > Histoire > 16e siecle.
Arts > Aspect religieux > Mexique > Histoire > 16e siecle.
Évangelisation > Mexique > Histoire > 16e siecle.
Theater > Religious aspects > Catholic Church > History.
Religious drama > History > 16th century.
Mural painting and decoration, Mexican > 16th century.
Indians of Mexico > Missions > History > 16th century.
Evangelistic work > Mexico > History > 16th century.
Arts and religion > Mexico > History > 16th century.
Mexico.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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