Peterson, Jeanette Favrot.
Austin : University of Texas Press, 2014.
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Part of the series Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long series in Latin American and Latino art and culture;Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long series in Latin American and Latino art and culture.
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- This study by Jeanette Favrot Peterson traces the transmission of Guadalupe as la Virgen de ida y vuelta from Spain to the Americas and back again, analyzing how the Spanish and Mexican titular images, and a selection of the copies they inspired, operated within the overlapping spheres of religion and politics. Peterson explores two central paradoxes: that only through a material object can a divine and invisible presence be authenticated and that Guadalupe’s images were made to work for enacting revolutionary change while preserving the colonial status quo. She examines the artists who created images of Guadalupe, their patrons, and the diverse viewing audiences for whom those images were intended. This exegesis reveals that visual evidence functioned on a par with written texts (treatises, chronicles, and sermons of ecclesiastical officialdom) in measuring popular beliefs and political strategies.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-318) and index.
- Introduction : The Subjectivity of Seeing — The Sacrality of Blackness — Because She Was of Their Color — Her Presence in Her Absence — Making Guadalupe — A Book of Miracles — Sacred Cloth and Veiled Body — Aura and Authorship — The Civil/Savage Paradox — The Viceroys and the Virgin — Collecting Guadalupe.
Subjects:
- Guadalupe, Our Lady of — Art.
- Black Virgins — Mexico.
- Black Virgins — Spain.
- Christian art and symbolism — Mexico — Modern period, 1500-
- Christian art and symbolism — Spain — Modern period, 1500-
- Art and society — Mexico.
- Art and society — Spain.
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