Posted on Wednesday, July 30, 2008 by blogmeridian2
(Note: This post, crossposted here, is part of a larger interest of mine in identifying the characteristics of visual and textual rhetorics of interracial mixing and seeing what larger conclusions we can draw from those characteristics.)
Ilona Katzew, Casta Painting: Images of Race in Eighteenth-Century Mexico (Yale, 2004). Amazon link here. Image found here.
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Posted on Monday, July 21, 2008 by blogmeridian2
Time to rouse this blog from its slumbers . . .
On the off chance that anyone still comes ’round here, here are some things to look for within a week or two:
1) a post (or two, more likely) in which, pivoting off some things Margarita Zamora says in her fine book, Reading Columbus, [...]
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Posted on Sunday, March 30, 2008 by blogmeridian2
Attrib. José de Alcíbar, 6. De Español y Negra, Mulato, ca. 1760-1770. Denver Art Museum. Image found here; specifics for this painting from Ilona Katzew, Casta Painting: Images of Race in Eighteenth-Century Mexico.
Two worlds God has placed in the hands of our Catholic Monarch, and the New does not resemble the Old, [...]
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Posted on Tuesday, February 5, 2008 by blogmeridian2
De Español y Negra, Mulato. Image found here.
The “Images” page for Domestic Issue now has three examples of casta paintings (one striking example of which you see here), a genre that was once quite popular during the colonial era but languished as an area of serious academic inquiry until the 1960s. The subject [...]
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