Étiqueté : art espagnol

Parution : Carmen Fracchia, “Black but Human : Slavery and Visual Art in Hapsburg Spain”, 1480-1700″, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2023

‘Black but Human’ is the first study to focus on the visual representations of African slaves and ex-slaves in Spain during the Hapsburg dynasty. The Afro-Hispanic proverb ‘Black but Human’ is the main thread of the six chapters and serves as a lens through which to explore the ways in which a certain visual representation of slavery both embodies and reproduces hegemonic visions of enslaved and liberated Africans, and at the same time provides material for...

Parution : Guillaume Kientz, “Murillo From Heaven to Earth”, New Haven, Yale University Press, 2022

A revealing exploration of Bartolomé Esteban Murillo’s genre paintings and the cultural significance of his depictions of ordinary people Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (1617–1682) is best known for his religious subject matter, yet some of his most iconic works depict secular themes. Celebrating Murillo’s genre paintings and shedding new light on the innovative portrayals of beggars, street urchins, and flower girls in the artist’s culturally rich narratives of youth and age, romance and seduction, and faith...

Parution : Cristina Fonseca Ramírez et Pedro Pérez Herrero (dir.), “El poder de la imagen. Iconografía, representaciones e imaginarios en América (Siglos XVI-XX)”, Madrid, Sílex ediciones, 2022

La historia fue hasta mediados del siglo xx un instrumento para generar una conciencia ciudadana, por lo que no casualmente los libros de historia vinculaban los relatos conceptuales con los visuales. Esta relación varió cuando las narrativas historiográficas comenzaron a distanciarse del compromiso social y político por considerar que la Historia era una ciencia dotada de una metodología precisa y de un leguaje específico propio cuyo principal y único objetivo era entender el pasado. Este libro tiene...

Appel à communications : Futures Past: Apocalyptic Thought in Premodern Iberia, RSA, date limite le 12 août 2022

This panel invites proposals focused on the apocalyptic imaginaries of millenarian and messianic movements in the premodern Iberian world. Scholarship in recent decades has explored Iberian temporal constructions through the lens of Renaissance Medievalism and Early Modern Antiquarianism. Participants in this panel will instead consider premodern Iberian constructions of the future and how they differ from the better-known revolution of temporal experience in the eighteenth century. Please send a paper title (15-word max), paper abstract...

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