The Diplomatic Enlightenment

The Diplomatic Enlightenment
Author: Edward Jones Corredera
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2021-08-30
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9004469095

Eighteenth-century Spain drew on the Enlightenment to reconfigure its role in the European balance of power. As its force and its weight declined, Spanish thinkers discouraged war and zealotry and pursued peace and cooperation to reconfigure the international Spanish Empire.

Academies and Schools of Art in Latin America

Academies and Schools of Art in Latin America
Author: Oscar E. Vázquez
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 311
Release: 2020-05-28
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1351187538

This edited volume’s chief aim is to bring together, in an English-language source, the principal histories and narratives of some of the most significant academies and national schools of art in South America, Mexico, and the Caribbean, from the late 18th to the early 20th centuries. The book highlights not only issues shared by Latin American academies of art but also those that differentiate them from their European counterparts. Authors examine issues including statutes, the influence of workshops and guilds, the importance of patronage, discourses of race and ethnicity in visual pedagogy, and European models versus the quest for national schools. It also offers first-time English translations of many foundational documents from several significant academies and schools. This book will be of interest to scholars in art history, Latin American and Hispanic studies, and modern visual cultures.

The Routledge Companion to the Hispanic Enlightenment

The Routledge Companion to the Hispanic Enlightenment
Author: Elizabeth Franklin Lewis
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 918
Release: 2019-09-30
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 1351718878

The Routledge Companion to the Hispanic Enlightenment is an interdisciplinary volume that brings together an international team of contributors to provide a unique transnational overview of the Hispanic Enlightenment, integrating both Spain and Latin America. Challenging the usual conceptions of the Enlightenment in Spain and Latin America as mere stepsisters to Enlightenments in other countries, the Companion explores the existence of a distinctive Hispanic Enlightenment. The interdisciplinary approach makes it an invaluable resource for students of Hispanic studies and researchers unfamiliar with the Hispanic Enlightenment, introducing them to the varied aspects of this rich cultural period including the literature, visual art, and social and cultural history.

Colonial Urbanism in the Age of the Enlightenment

Colonial Urbanism in the Age of the Enlightenment
Author: Claudia Murray
Publisher: Anthem Press
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2023-06-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 1785279831

This book tells the story of how the monarchy aimed at creating a new capital city in a remote and forgotten area of the empire. It also shows how the local Creole bourgeoisie rapidly assumed the role of urban developers, and enhanced their economic status by investing in and controlling the Buenos Aires’ property market. In a short period, from 1776 to 1810, the urban transformation of Buenos Aires helped increase the Crown’s revenues and considerably reduced contraband trade. Nevertheless, urban changes generated an internal struggle for power for the control of the city between the Spanish loyalist and the local wealthier Creoles. As this book concludes, for an empire such as the Spanish, which was built upon a network of cities, the Crown’s loss of the control of Buenos Aires’ urban space was a serious threat to its power that foreshadowed Argentina’s wars of independence.

Rediscovering Objects from Islamic Lands in Enlightenment Europe

Rediscovering Objects from Islamic Lands in Enlightenment Europe
Author: Isabelle Dolezalek
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2021-12-30
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1000519171

This book argues that the provenance of early modern and medieval objects from Islamic lands was largely forgotten until the "long" eighteenth century, when the first efforts were made to reconnect them with the historical contexts in which they were produced. For the first time, these Islamicate objects were read, studied and classified – and given a new place in history. Freed by scientific interest, they were used in new ways and found new homes, including in museums. More generally, the process of "rediscovery" opened up the prehistory of the discipline of Islamic art history and had a significant impact on conceptions of cultural boundaries, differences and identity. The book will be of interest to scholars working in the history of art, the art of the Islamic world, early modern history and art historiography.

Ink Under the Fingernails

Ink Under the Fingernails
Author: Corinna Zeltsman
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 349
Release: 2021-06-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 0520344332

Introduction -- The politics of loyalty -- Negotiating freedom -- Responsibility on trial -- Selling scandal : The Mysteries of the Inquisition -- The business of nation building -- Workers of thought -- Criminalizing the printing press -- Conclusion.

A Companion to Viceregal Mexico City, 1519-1821

A Companion to Viceregal Mexico City, 1519-1821
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 514
Release: 2021-08-16
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004335579

This book presents a historical overview of colonial Mexico City and the important role it played in the creation of the early modern Hispanic world.

Pictured Politics

Pictured Politics
Author: Emily Engel
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2020-03-23
Genre: Art
ISBN: 147732061X

The Spanish colonial period in South America saw artists develop the subgenre of official portraiture, or portraits of key individuals in the continent’s viceregal governments. Although these portraits appeared to illustrate a narrative of imperial splendor and absolutist governance, they instead became a visual record of the local history that emerged during the colonial occupation. Using the official portrait collections accumulated between 1542 and 1830 in Lima, Buenos Aires, and Bogotá as a lens, Pictured Politics explores how official portraiture originated and evolved to become an essential component in the construction of Ibero-American political relationships. Through the surviving portraits and archival evidence—including political treatises, travel accounts, and early periodicals—Emily Engel demonstrates that these official portraits not only belie a singular interpretation as tools of imperial domination but also visualize the continent's multilayered history of colonial occupation. The first stand alone analysis of South American portraiture, Pictured Politics brings to light the historical relevance of political portraits in crafting the history of South American colonialism.

Eighteenth-Century Art Worlds

Eighteenth-Century Art Worlds
Author: Michael Yonan
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2019-02-21
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1501335499

While the connected, international character of today's art world is well known, the eighteenth century too had a global art world. Eighteenth-Century Art Worlds is the first book to attempt a map of the global art world of the eighteenth century. Fourteen essays from a distinguished group of scholars explore both cross-cultural connections and local specificities of art production and consumption in Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Europe. The result is an account of a series of interconnected and asymmetrical art worlds that were well developed in the eighteenth century. Capturing the full material diversity of eighteenth-century art, this book considers painting and sculpture alongside far more numerous prints and decorative objects. Analyzing the role of place in the history of eighteenth-century art, it bridges the disciplines of art history and cultural geography, and draws attention away from any one place as a privileged art-historical site, while highlighting places such as Manila, Beijing, Mexico City, and London as significant points on globalized map of the eighteenth-century art world. Eighteenth-Century Art Worlds combines a broad global perspective on the history of art with careful attention to how global artistic concerns intersect with local ones, offering a framework for future studies in global art history.