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Foundational arts : mural painting and missionary theater in New Spain
Uniform Title
Artes de fundación. English
Title
Foundational arts : mural painting and missionary theater in New Spain / Michael K. Schuessler.
ISBN
9780816529889 (cloth : alk. paper)
0816529884 (cloth : alk. paper)
Publication
Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, [2013]
Physical Description
xi, 224 pages ; 24 cm
Notes
"This book is a translation, with modifications, of Artes de fundación: Teatro evangelizador y pintura mural en la Nueva España, by Michael K. Schuessler."
Summary
"Foundational Arts examines how the relationships between mural painting and missionary theater became a transcultural process for mass conversion of Native populations to Christianity. Schuessler studies the New World expressions of dramatic and plastic arts and how they became the tools of European friars to Christianize Native peoples and ultimately create a new literary and artistic tradition"--Provided by publisher.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 26, 2014
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction. Texts and contexts: 'bookish' architecture, mural painting, and theatricality in colonial Mexico
Toward a literature of foundations. Indo-Christian literature: renascent genres
Ethno-dramatic performances in pre-Hispanic Mexico: rite, theater or spiritual performance?
Nahuatl missionary theater
Renascent genres in New Spain. The evangelization of the imaginary: catechesis and education in New Spain
Mural painting in New Spain: a singular artistic expression
Iconography and evangelization. New World iconology
The Augustinian monastery at San Miguel Itzmiquilpan
Itzmiquilpan's pictorial program and the 'Service codex'
The Last Judgment: mural painting and missionary theater. Franciscan and Augustinian millennialism
Andrés de Olmos's El Juicio Final (the Last Judgment): New Spain's first religious drama
The mural cycle at San Nicolás Actopan
Final considerations
Appendix: The Last Judgment, attributed to fray Andrés de Olmos.
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