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Object and Apparition: Envisioning the Christian Divine in the Colonial Andes
Maya Stanfield-Mazzi
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Description for Object and Apparition: Envisioning the Christian Divine in the Colonial Andes
paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages, 53 photos, 3 maps, 9 plates. BIC Classification: 1KLSR; HBT; HRCC7; HRCS1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
When Christianity was imposed on Native peoples in the Andes, visual images played a fundamental role, yet few scholars have written about this significant aspect. Object and Apparition proposes that Christianity took root in the region only when both Spanish colonizers and native Andeans actively envisioned the principal deities of the new religion in two- and three-dimensional forms. The book explores principal works of art involved in this process, outlines early strategies for envisioning the Christian divine, and examines later, more effective approaches.
Maya Stanfield-Mazzi demonstrates that among images of the divine there was constant interplay between concrete material ... Read more
When Christianity was imposed on Native peoples in the Andes, visual images played a fundamental role, yet few scholars have written about this significant aspect. Object and Apparition proposes that Christianity took root in the region only when both Spanish colonizers and native Andeans actively envisioned the principal deities of the new religion in two- and three-dimensional forms. The book explores principal works of art involved in this process, outlines early strategies for envisioning the Christian divine, and examines later, more effective approaches.
Maya Stanfield-Mazzi demonstrates that among images of the divine there was constant interplay between concrete material ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Arizona Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Tucson, United States
ISBN
9780816534234
SKU
V9780816534234
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About Maya Stanfield-Mazzi
Maya Stanfield-Mazzi is an assistant professor of art history at the University of Florida, USA.
Reviews for Object and Apparition: Envisioning the Christian Divine in the Colonial Andes
A richly documented, well-illustrated book that studies the proliferation of miraculous images in the southern highlands of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Peru. "" - The Catholic Historical Review ""This is a complicated subject that has been approached in a variety of ways, and it is gratifying to find them brought together in a single, lucidly presented volume."" - Suzanne L. ... Read more