Pictured politics : visualizing colonial history in South American portrait collections / Emily Engel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Engel, Emily A., 1978- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Portraits--Political aspects--South America--History.

Portraits.

Art, South American--18th century.

Art, South American.

Art, South American--19th century.

Portraits--South America--History--18th century.

Portraits--South America--History--19th century.

Politics in art.

History.

South America--Biography--Portraits.

South America.

Genre:

Biographies.

History.

Portraits.

Physical Description:

viii, 173 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 27 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Austin : University of Texas Press, [2020]

Summary:

"Examines official portrait collections in three prominent museums in three South American capitals--Lima, Buenos Aires, and Bogotá--to consider how works of art were active components in the construction of Ibero-American colonial histories and political relationships over nearly four hundred years until the wars of independence commenced in the region. Engel not only considers the images themselves for whom/what they depict but also contextualizes them by uncovering the histories of how these portraits were made (and by whom), as well as how they were displayed in certain spaces for specific reasons over time"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

New pictorial practices : early official portraits in viceregal Peru

Visualizing empire's history : royal portraits in the Iberoamerican world

Picturing viceregal authority in the Lima city council

Municipal collecting : viceregal portraits in Bogotá and Buenos Aires

Portrayal in a time of transition : early nineteenth-century portraits

Epilogue : the afterlife of official portraits.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781477320594

1477320598

OCLC:

1114280895