La imagen transgredida : ensayos de iconografía peruana y sus políticas de representación simbólica / Ramón Mujica Pinilla.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mujica Pinilla, Ramón, author.

Standardized Title:

Essays. Selections

Language:

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Christian art and symbolism--Peru.

Christian art and symbolism.

Peru.

Physical Description:

721 pages

Edition:

Primera edición.

Place of Publication:

Lima : Fondo Editorial del Congreso de Perú, 2016.

Summary:

An anthology of articles by Ramón Mujica Pinilla, (Director of the National Library of Peru), previously published in now out-of-print books, exhibition catalogues and inaccessible specialized magazines. These texts have marked new research models for Peruvian art for their interdisciplinary perspective and rich collection of unknown paintings from cloistered lifeconvents, colonial temples all around the country or private collections. The word "transgression" - used in the title - reveals the Andean phenomenon of religious syncretism and acculturation. Christian art introduced by the missionaries to the Indians in Peru at the beginning of the Spanish conquest, did not flourished in a cultural void. On the contrary, the native artisans of the Viceroyalty - Indians, mestizos and Creoles - each from their own vindicating trench, used the iconography and Christian religious devotions as part of a symbolic vocabulary that had multiple cultural readings. So it was so, that in some paintings the caciques Indians are represented as the new protagonists of biblical salvation history. Author Mujica uses the social history of images - their theology and iconography - to show the continuities and cultural ruptures between the art of the Metropolis - Spain - and that of its distant overseas "province": the Viceroyalty of Peru that encompassed a territory that nowadays corresponds to ten South American countries. Throughout this vast geography, its creators rethink European art from their "new policies of symbolic representation". Thus, far from being the Viceroyalty a "middle ages" obscurantist between a utopian Inca Empire and independence, Mujica suggests that this was a historical period of great intellectual activity and artistic originality who reshaped Catholic Theology and visual art of the Counter-Reformation to forge religious and ethnic identity of the Indian and Peruvian Creole. This also reformulated in prophetic and transgressive way, the same basis for the emancipatory war of Peru. At the beginning of the independence in the 19th century, other artistic traditions will appear that, in turn, will transform the image of the new secular Republic: the art of the political cartoon - indebted even of symbolic Baroque repertoires -and traditional Andean folk art, which combines the heritage of the Viceregal artisans with the pre-Hispanic traditions and rituals still in present in the lives of the farmers and ranchers of the Andes. Mujica talks about this and more in a book that has took more than fifteen years of historical research.

Contents:

Presentación

Prologo

Introducción

El Taki Onqoy

El niño Jesus Inca y los jesuitas en el Cusro virreinal

Angeles y demonios en la conquista del Peru

El sermón a la aves o el culto a los angeles en el Virreinato Peruano

Arte e Identidad: las raices culturales del Barroco peruano

El arte y los sermones

Identidades alegoricas: lecturas iconograficas del Barroco al Neoclasico

Semiotica de la magen sagrada: la teurgia del signo en clave americana

Sobre imaginarios e imaginarios andinos: algunoas cuestiones metodologicas e historica

La rebelion de los lapices: La caricatura politica peruana en el silgo XIX

De Alfarero civilizador a artesanos insurgente: el trasfondo politico de un lienzo de Francisco Laso

Primitivos modernos: Picasso y el arte precolombimo peruano.

Notes:

"Antología de artículos de Ramón Mujica Pinilla aparecidos en libros agotados, catálogos de exhibiciones y revistas especializadas de dificil acceso"--Page 4 of cover.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9786124329043

6124329042

OCLC:

959229086