A talk at the Getty
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alessia
May 19, 2009, 1:50:31 PM5/19/09
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Dear MesoNet members,
I will be giving a talk next Tuesday at the Getty, as part of the
Getty Scholars Program. You are invited to me
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
3:30 p.m., East Building, Herculaneum, Getty Conservation Institute
Alessia Frassani
PhD candidate in the Art History Program, Graduate Center, City
University of New York
At the Crossroads of Empire: Mixtecs and Spanish Art in Colonial
Yanhuitlan, Oaxaca
I will present findings and issues related to my dissertation on the
colonial church and convento (missionary establishment) of Santo
Domingo Yanhuitlan, a Mixtec village in Oaxaca, southwestern Mexico. A
dominant pre-Hispanic town strategically located between the Aztec
Empire to the north and the Maya kingdoms to the south, after the
Spanish conquest, Yanhuitlan became a booming economic center, thanks
to the introduction of sericulture and the opening of the Pacific
maritime trade. Mixtec rulers allied with Spanish officials and friars
to transform the erection of the convento from a statement of foreign
spiritual conquest to a strategy of political hegemony vis-à-vis local
tributaries. In the following centuries, barrio (neighborhood)
organizations became the most important impulse of art patronage and
sponsorship of religious festivals. Spanish in origin, these
institutions became gradually independent from the local parish and
colonial authorities, filling the vacuum left by a waning traditional
leadership.
In this presentation, I intend to address a specific question: How did
Spanish “forms,” e.g. ceremonial behavior, social and political
institutions, and visual arts, first enter and eventually become
incorporated in Mixtec lifestyle? The historical analysis of the
convento as a dynamic and socially constructed space may help
reconstruct the process of Mixtec identity formation in the colonial
period. Built environment and liturgical objects were integrated into
a larger political, economic, and social system that sustained and
shaped the artistic and religious life of the village.
No RSVP required.
I will be giving a talk next Tuesday at the Getty, as part of the
Getty Scholars Program. You are invited to me
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
3:30 p.m., East Building, Herculaneum, Getty Conservation Institute
Alessia Frassani
PhD candidate in the Art History Program, Graduate Center, City
University of New York
At the Crossroads of Empire: Mixtecs and Spanish Art in Colonial
Yanhuitlan, Oaxaca
I will present findings and issues related to my dissertation on the
colonial church and convento (missionary establishment) of Santo
Domingo Yanhuitlan, a Mixtec village in Oaxaca, southwestern Mexico. A
dominant pre-Hispanic town strategically located between the Aztec
Empire to the north and the Maya kingdoms to the south, after the
Spanish conquest, Yanhuitlan became a booming economic center, thanks
to the introduction of sericulture and the opening of the Pacific
maritime trade. Mixtec rulers allied with Spanish officials and friars
to transform the erection of the convento from a statement of foreign
spiritual conquest to a strategy of political hegemony vis-à-vis local
tributaries. In the following centuries, barrio (neighborhood)
organizations became the most important impulse of art patronage and
sponsorship of religious festivals. Spanish in origin, these
institutions became gradually independent from the local parish and
colonial authorities, filling the vacuum left by a waning traditional
leadership.
In this presentation, I intend to address a specific question: How did
Spanish “forms,” e.g. ceremonial behavior, social and political
institutions, and visual arts, first enter and eventually become
incorporated in Mixtec lifestyle? The historical analysis of the
convento as a dynamic and socially constructed space may help
reconstruct the process of Mixtec identity formation in the colonial
period. Built environment and liturgical objects were integrated into
a larger political, economic, and social system that sustained and
shaped the artistic and religious life of the village.
No RSVP required.
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