The Arts of the missions of northern New Spain 1600-1821 / Clara Bargellini, Michael K. Komanecky, exhibition curators.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bargellini, Clara.

Komanecky, Michael

Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art, Spanish colonial--New Spain, Northern--Exhibitions.

Art, Spanish colonial.

Catholic Church--Missions--New Spain, Northern--Exhibitions.

Catholic Church.

Missions.

Architecture, Colonial--New Spain--Exhibitions.

Architecture, Colonial.

New Spain.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

xxii, 371 pages : illustrations (color) ; 30 cm

Edition:

First English edition.

Place of Publication:

Mexico City, Mexico : Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso, [2009]

Contents:

Contents. Preliminary words

Introduction. Essays. Arts and architecture, force and fear, the struggle for sacred space / David J. Weber

Northern New Spain and the ancient interweaving of images / Marie-Areti Hers

Art at the Missions of Northern New Spain / Clara Bargellini

Missions as architectural patrons / James E. Ivey

Indigenous societies, missions and the colonial system in northern New Spain / William L. Merrill

Spanish missions in the American imagination / Michael K. Komanecky

Works restored by the Escuela de Conservación, Restauración y Museografía of the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Mexico: materials, criteria and procedures / Liliana Giorguli Chávez, Yolanda Madrid A., Mercedes Murguía Meca, Fanny Unikel Santoncini, Jannen Contreras, Rosa Lorena Román Torres. Catalogue. Works on Paper. Preaching with book in hand: editorial production in New Spain in Northern Mexican indigenous languages / Marina Garone

Sculpture

Painting

Painting on hide / Kelly Donahue-Wallace

Metal

Silver and metal objects / Paz de la Torre Comps and Clara Bargellini

Liturgical textiles

Furniture

Basketry

Native American arts in the Spanish missions: Chumash basketry / Jan Timbrook. Appendix.

Notes:

"Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso in collaboration with San Antonio Museum of Art, Museo de Historia Mexicana, Centro Cultural Tijuana, Oakland Museum of California."

"The exhibition The Arts of the Missions of Northern New Spain, 1600-1821 is the result of a research project that was begun and developed to a large extent within the Universidad Nacional Autónomo de México."--P. viii.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-363).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

9786079521707

6079521709

OCLC:

436470598