Sculpting Quito : Religious Art Across Domestic Spaces.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Todd, Leslie E.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of South America--Ecuador--Quito--Social conditions--18th century.

Indians of South America.

Mestizos--Ecuador--Quito--Social life and customs--18th century.

Mestizos.

Art, Colonial--Ecuador--Quito.

Art, Colonial.

Art and society--Ecuador--Quito--History--18th century.

Art and society.

Christian art and symbolism--Ecuador--Quito--18th century.

Christian art and symbolism.

Polychromy--Ecuador--Quito--18th century.

Polychromy.

Wood sculpture--Ecuador--Quito--18th century.

Wood sculpture.

Sculpture, Colonial--Ecuador--Quito--18th century.

Sculpture, Colonial.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (0 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Austin : University of Texas Press, 2026.

Summary:

"Leslie Todd's study of eighteenth-century polychrome sculptures in Quito tries to answer some core questions: what belief systems were shaped in the viewing and ownership of these figures, and how did a diverse group of viewers interact with them in public spaces and private residences? Religious sculptures were intended to be used as a colonizing object, but Todd goes beyond studying the religious meanings of visual imagery to explore how visual culture extends to the less visible: the people, processes, and ideas that are not always explicit in the making and viewing of these images. In doing so, Todd is able to look past perceived indebtedness to Spanish visual traditions to consider the ways in which these materials were crafted by mestizo and Indigenous workers, incorporating local production processes and local visualities, and the local domestic spaces where they were often placed. While these sculptures were often commissioned by wealthy criollo patrons for private use, Todd finds compelling evidence through primary resources--such as wills and testaments--that these objects were often bequeathed to loyal mestizo and Indigenous servants, in ways that both underscored colonial class and power systems and status while simultaneously challenging the intentions (such as we can read them) of the sculptures and the new spaces in which they moved and were perhaps viewed by their new owners"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction

The colonizing object

The art form

The bien mueble

The imagen de bulto

Epilogue.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-4773-3369-X

9781477333693

OCLC:

1584468050