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The untranslatable image, a mestizo history of the arts in New Spain, 1500-1600, by Alessandra Russo ; translated from the French by Susan Emanuel

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The untranslatable image

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by Alessandra Russo ; translated from the French by Susan Emanuel

Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long series in Latin American and Latino art and culture

a mestizo history of the arts in New Spain, 1500-1600

From the first contacts between European conquerors and the peoples of the Americas, objects were exchanged and treasures pillaged, as if each side were seeking to appropriate tangible fragments of the "world" of the other. Soon, too, the collision between the arts of Renaissance Europe and pre-Hispanic America produced new objects and new images with the most diverse usages and forms. Scholars have used terms such as syncretism, fusion, juxtaposition, and hybridity in describing these new works of art, but none of them, asserts Alessandra Russo, adequately conveys the impact that the European artistic world had on the Mesoamerican artistic world, nor treats the ways in which pre-Hispanic traditions, expertise, and techniques<U+0127> as well as the creation of post-Conquest images<U+0127> transformed the course of Western art.--, Provided by Publisher

Prologue: from one triptych to another -- Introduction: at the frontiers of art histories -- A triptych from New Spain -- Treasures -- Figures -- Malicias -- Images between words -- Mosaics -- Landscape -- Scratching -- The creation of unexpected languages -- Relics of ixiptla -- Circular realism -- Figurative condensation -- Conclusion: untranslatable images?