Imagining Identity in New Spain: Race, Lineage, and the Colonial Body in Portraiture and Casta Paintings

by Magali M. Carrera

Book Overview

Using an interdisciplinary approach that also considers legal, literary, and religious documents of the period, Magali Carrera focuses on eighteenth-century portraiture and casta paintings to understand how the people and spaces of New Spain were conceptualized and visualized.

Winner, Book Award, Association of Latin American Art, 2004

Reacting to the rising numbers of mixed-blood (Spanish-Indian-Black African) people in its...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 029274417X
• ISBN13: 9780292744172
• Release Date: April 2003
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.1"