Casta painting : images of race in eighteenth-century Mexico

Casta painting : images of race in eighteenth-century Mexico /

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Bibliographic Details
Online Access:	Table of contents Check for access via Internet Archive
Author / Contributor:	Katzew, Ilona
Imprint:	New Haven : Yale University Press, c2004.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Subjects:	Casta painting. Racially mixed people in art. Miscegenation in art. Mexico > Social life and customs > 18th century.
Series:	Internet Archive Lending Library Internet Archive Lending Library

Table of Contents:

Painters and paintings: a visual tradition and its historiography
"A marvelous variety of colors"?: racial ideology and the sistema de Castas
Rise of Casta painting: exoticism and Creole pride, 1711-1760
Changing perspectives: Casta painting in the era of the Bourbon reforms, 1760-1790
Theater of marvels: Casta paintings in the textual microcosmos
Concluding remarks: a genre with many meanings.