Examines the visual arts within the Portuguese empire between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. With a focus on the appropriation of Portuguese-Christian art within the colonies, this book looks at how these and other objects could be staged to generate layers of meaning. Num Pages: 384 pages, 60 colour plates, 120 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DSP; 3JB; 3JD; 3JF; ACN; ACQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 167 x 25. Weight in Grams: 814. . 2017. Illustrated. Hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Title: Visualizing Portuguese Power ? The Political Use of Images in Portugal and its Overseas Empire (16th18th Century)
Publisher: Diaphanes AG
Publication Date: 2017
Language: English
ISBN 10: 3037347422
ISBN 13: 9783037347423
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New

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Images play a key role in political communication and the ways we come to understand the power structures that shape society. Nowhere is this more evident than in the process of empire building, in which visual language has long been a highly effective means of overpowering another culture with one’s own values and beliefs.

With Visualizing Portuguese Power, Urte Krass and a group of contributors examine the visual arts within the Portuguese empire between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. With a focus on the political appropriation of Portuguese-Christian art within the colonies, the book looks at how these and other objects could be staged to generate new layers of meaning. Beyond religious images, the book shows that the appropriation of the visual arts to reinforce important political concepts also took place in the outside the religious sphere, including adaptations of local artistic customs to reinforce Portuguese power.

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Urte Krass is assistant professor in the Institute for Art History at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.

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