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020 _a9780816599134
020 _a0816599130
020 _z9780816529889 (cloth : alk. paper)
020 _z0816529884
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_cMdBmJHUP
041 1 _aeng
_hspa
050 0 0 _aF1219.3.M59
_bS3413 2014
082 0 0 _a201/.67
_223
100 1 _aSchuessler, Michael Karl,
_eauthor,
_etranslator.
240 1 0 _aArtes de fundación.
_lEnglish
245 1 0 _aFoundational arts
_h[electronic resource] :
_bmural painting and missionary theater in New Spain /
_cMichael K. Schuessler.
260 _aTucson :
_bThe University of Arizona Press,
_c2014.
_e(Baltimore, Md. :
_fProject MUSE,
_g2015)
300 _a1 online resource (pages cm)
500 _a"This book is a translation, with modifications, of Artes de fundación: Teatro evangelizador y pintura mural en la Nueva España, by Michael K. Schuessler."
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aIntroduction. Texts and contexts: 'bookish' architecture, mural painting, and theatricality in colonial Mexico -- Toward a literature of foundations. Indo-Christian literature: renascent genres -- Ethno-dramatic performances in pre-Hispanic Mexico: rite, theater or spiritual performance? -- Nahuatl missionary theater -- Renascent genres in New Spain. The evangelization of the imaginary: catechesis and education in New Spain -- Mural painting in New Spain: a singular artistic expression -- Iconography and evangelization. New World iconology -- The Augustinian monastery at San Miguel Itzmiquilpan -- Itzmiquilpan's pictorial program and the 'Service codex' -- The Last Judgment: mural painting and missionary theater. Franciscan and Augustinian millennialism -- Andres de Olmos's El Juicio Final (the Last Judgment): New Spain's first religious drama -- The mural cycle at San Nicolás Actopan -- Final considerations -- Appendix: The Last Judgment, attributed to fray Andres de Olmos.
520 _a"Foundational Arts examines how the relationships between mural painting and missionary theater became a transcultural process for mass conversion of Native populations to Christianity. Schuessler studies the New World expressions of dramatic and plastic arts and how they became the tools of European friars to Christianize Native peoples and ultimately create a new literary and artistic tradition"--Provided by publisher.
588 _aDescription based on print version record.
650 0 _aEvangelistic work
_zMexico
_xHistory
_y16th century.
650 0 _aArts and religion
_zMexico
_xHistory
_y16th century.
650 0 _aMural painting and decoration, Mexican
_y16th century.
650 0 _aReligious drama
_xHistory
_y16th century.
650 0 _aTheater
_xReligious aspects
_xCatholic Church
_xHistory.
650 0 _aIndians of Mexico
_xMissions
_xHistory
_y16th century.
610 1 0 _aCatholic Church
_zMexico
_xHistory
_y16th century.
655 7 _aElectronic books.
_2local
700 1 _aMartínez Vega, Leonardo,
_etranslator.
710 2 _aProject Muse.
856 4 0 _zFull text available:
_uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780816599134/
942 _2Dewey Decimal Classification
_ceBooks
999 _c33922
_d33922