At this free symposium, presented in conjunction with the exhibition Colonial Crossings: Art, Identity, and Belief in the Spanish Americas, established scholars whose work encompasses a variety of regions and approaches to colonial Latin American art history will offer new methodologies, seeking to expand the boundaries of this visual culture. Presentations will explore the exhibition’s thematic emphases on materiality and sacredness, hybridity and cross-cultural exchange, colonial constructions of race, and recovering art histories marked by silence and erasure.
Speakers and topics are scheduled to include:
“Time-Warping the Museum: Temporal Juxtapositions in Displays of Spanish Colonial Art”
Lucia Abramovich, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
“Framing Miracles for a New World: The Oval”
Jennifer Baez, University of Washington
“Trent as Compass: Directions, Circuits, and Crossings of the Visual and Canonical in Spanish America”
Cristina Cruz González, Oklahoma State University
“Splendor and Iridescence: Pearls in the Art of the Spanish Americas”
Mónica Dominguez Torres, University of Delaware
“‘Your Plenteous Grandeur Resides in You’: Asian Luxury in Spanish American Domestic Interiors”
Juliana Fagua Arias, Cornell University
“Supplicant Africans: From Baptizands to Emblems of Abolition”
Elena FitzPatrick Sifford, Muhlenberg College
“Voices of Influence: Exploring Power Dynamics in the Conservation of Musical Heritage in Colonial Latin America”
Patricia García Gil, Cornell University
“Invisible Soldiers and Constant Servants: The Pre-Hispanic Roots of the Andean Cult of Angels”
Maya Stanfield-Mazzi, University of Florida
A schedule will be posted here (exact times to be announced). Please email eas8@cornell.edu to register in advance for in-person attendance.
Click here to join the webinar (Passcode: 673987).
This symposium has been made possible through the generous support of the Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation.
Image: Unidentified artist, Quito, Ecuador. Noah’s Ark (detail), late 18th century. Oil on canvas. Collection of Carl & Marilynn Thoma, 2000.004.