ReVision

The Spanish Conquest of the Aztec Empire was a key factor in the Spanish colonization of the Americas. After the conquest, there was a struggle to preserve the region’s culture, heritage, and history as its people strived to rebuild upon what was left. At the same time, a new geographic and cultural identity was being forged that brought together aspects of Spanish culture along with the practices and traditions of the Africans and Native Americans who lived in the region.
 
ReVisión collects essays from scholars of Latin American art history to help others understand the region’s nuanced history of creation, destruction, and renewal. In addition to essays, ReVisión showcases work from artists such as Alexander Apóstol, Juan Enrique Bedoya, Johanna Calle, and Ronny Quevedo in order to help visualize the questions of identity, exploitation of natural resources, and displacement from both before and after the conquest. 

Victoria I. Lyall is the curator of Pre-Columbian Art at the Denver Art Museum. Her most recent publication is Murals of the Americas: Papers from the 2017 Mayer Center Symposium at the Denver Art Museum. 

Jorge F. Rivas Pérez is an art historian architect and designer. He is also the curator of Spanish Colonial Art at the Denver Art Museum, and his most recent exhibition is Power and Piety: Spanish Colonial Art from the Cisneros Collection.