Painting the conquest : the Mexican Indians and the European Renaissance /

Gruzinski, Serge.

Painting the conquest : the Mexican Indians and the European Renaissance / Serge Gruzinski; traducido por Deke Dusinberre. - 236 páginas : ilustraciones; 31 cm

Introduction -- An unprecedented experiment -- The Lords of Mexico -- A universe of images -- The invasion of European images -- I. The clash of cultures -- Getting used t the inconceivable : conquest -- The Tlaxcalan version : a prestigious collaboration -- The versions of the vanquished -- II. Secrets of an outlawed past -- Wrenching memories -- Divine forces -- A renaissance Christian interpretation -- Sacrifice -- "Staged" society -- Time and calendars -- Fate -- Clandestinity : dissident nobles, healers, and human-deities -- III. Remembrance of things past -- Recollecting ancestry and titles -- The splendor of bygone princes -- Nobles and commoners -- The harmonious rhythm of existence -- Death as commencement -- IV. Painting new Spain -- Collaboration : opportunism and compromise -- New society, new economy -- Native tradition meets European culture : the new intelligentsia -- A new language -- V. Taking stock of the world -- The world of the elders, or, things best forgotten -- The invasion of plants and animals -- A renaissance culture -- Aesop's fables -- The mystery of native maps -- Conclusion : The end of the a world -- Death throes of an artistic experiment.

208013521X 9782080135216

SPKT152456


Indios de México--Antigüedades.


México - Historia--1519-1540.--Conquista

Pintura.

745.67097209031 / G893p 1992

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