Reframing the Renaissance : visual culture in Europe and Latin America, 1450-1650

Farago, Claire J.

ISBN 10: 0300062958 / ISBN 13: 9780300062953

Published by New Haven : Yale University Press, 1995

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Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: x, 394 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm. Notes: Illustrated endpapers. Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-380) and index. Contents: Reframing the Renaissance / Claire Farago -- The pathos of distance : Byzantium in the gaze of Renaissance Europe and modern scholarship / Anthony Cutler -- Italian sculptors and sculpture outside of Italy (chiefly in central Europe) : problems of approach, possibilities of reception / Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann -- "Vision itself has its history" : "race," nation, and Renaissance art history / Claire Farago -- Re-visioning Raphael as a "scientific painter" / Janis Bell -- "Popular" art in Renaissance Italy : early response to the Holy Mountain at Varallo / Alessandro Nova -- Art theory as ideology : Gabriele Paleotti's hierarchical notion of painting's universality and reception / Pamela M. Jones -- Languages of gesture in sixteenth-century Mexico : some antecedents and transmutations / Pauline Moffitt Watts -- From lies to truth : colonial ekphrasis and the act of crosscultural translation / Thomas Cummins -- "Wrought by no artist's hand" : the natural, the artificial, the exotic, and the scientific in some artifacts from the Renaissance / Martin Kemp -- Animals as cultural signs : a Medici menagerie in the grotto at Castello / Claudia Lazzaro -- Collecting cultures : a Mexican manuscript in the Vatican Library / Eloise Quiñones Keber -- Wild woman in colonial Mexico : an encounter of European and Aztec concepts of the other / Cecilia F. Klein -- Colony and cartography : shifting signs on indigenous maps of New Spain / Dana Leibsohn -- Luca Signorelli's Rule of Antichrist and the Christian encounter with the infidel / Jonathan B. Riess -- Iconology, ideology, and cultural encounter : Panofsky, Althusser, and the scene of recognition / W.J.T. Mitchell.Subjects: Art, Renaissance; Art, Colonial Latin America Foreign influences; Art, Latin American Foreign influences; Art, Renaissance Influence; Intercultural communication; Art, Renaissance Influence;Art de la Renaissance. 1 Kg.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Reframing the Renaissance : visual culture in Europe and Latin America, 1450-1650
• Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press
• Publication Date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0300062958
• ISBN 13: 9780300062953
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st edition.
• Weight: 1 kilogram

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Synopsis

How did the extensive cultural exchange between the Old and New Worlds that took place during the sixteenth century affect artistic practice and discussions of art at that time? In this book distinguished Renaissance art historians reevaluate the Eurocentrism of Italian Renaissance art history by envisioning how the history of Renaissance art would look if cultural interaction and the conditions of reception became the primary focus. Scholars such as Anthony Cutler, Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, Martin Kemp, Cecelia Klein, and Claudia Lazzaro examine the function, reception, and influence of specific kinds of images and other manufactured objects as they were disseminated around the globe, particularly between Renaissance Italy and Latin America.

The first section, on historiography, identifies significant problems in past conceptualizations of Renaissance art. The next essays examine the conceptual frameworks in which visual representation functioned in Europe and Latin America. The third section discusses early collecting practices and cultural exchange in Europe. Three essays then present case studies of culturally hybrid images―of unruly women, colonial maps, and ethnic stereotypes―in intercultural perspective. In the epilogue, W.J.T. Mitchell examines contemporary views of how we construct the human subject.

Bringing together the familiar and the unfamiliar in a highly thought-provoking way, the book is an important contribution to many fields of study, including historiography, Latin American art, and Renaissance studies.

About the Author

Claire Farago is associate professor of art history at the University of Colorado at Boulder.