Visualizing Guadalupe : from Black Madonna to Queen of the Americas
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Visualizing Guadalupe : from Black Madonna to Queen of the Americas
(Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long series in Latin American and Latino art and culture)
University of Texas Press, 2014
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Includes bibliographical references (p.307-318) and index
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Description
The Virgin of Guadalupe is famously migratory, traversing continents and crossing and recrossing oceans. Guadalupe's earliest cult originated in medieval Iberia, where Our Lady of Guadalupe from Extremadura, Spain, played a significant role in the reconquista and garnered royal backing. The Spanish Guadalupe accompanied the conquistadors as part of the spiritual arsenal used to Christianize the Americas, where new images of the Virgin acted as catalysts to implant her devotion within multiethnic constituencies.
This masterful study by Jeanette Favrot Peterson traces the transmission of Guadalupe as la Virgen de ida y vuelta from Spain to the Americas and back again, analyzing how the Spanish and Mexican titular images, and a selection of the copies they inspired, operated within the overlapping spheres of religion and politics. Peterson explores two central paradoxes: that only through a material object can a divine and invisible presence be authenticated and that Guadalupe's images were made to work for enacting revolutionary change while preserving the colonial status quo. She examines the artists who created images of Guadalupe, their patrons, and the diverse viewing audiences for whom those images were intended. This exegesis reveals that visual evidence functioned on a par with written texts (treatises, chronicles, and sermons of ecclesiastical officialdom) in measuring popular beliefs and political strategies.
Table of Contents
Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Subjectivity of Seeing
Chapter 1: The Sacrality of Blackness
Chapter 2: "Because She Was of Their Color"
Chapter 3: Her Presence in Her Absence
Chapter 4: Making Guadalupe
Chapter 5: A "Book of Miracles"
Chapter 6: Sacred Cloth and Veiled Body
Chapter 7: Aura and Authorship
Chapter 8: The Civil/Savage Paradox
Chapter 9: The Viceroys and the Virgin
Chapter 10: Collecting Guadalupe
Notes
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