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Weapons and Phantasms: The Painted Cloths of Chachapoyas and Peruvian Independence

The Routledge Companion to Global Renaissance Art

Clothing the New World Church: Liturgical Textiles of Spanish America, 1520–1820

Object and Apparition: Envisioning the Christian Divine in the Colonial Andes

Maya Stanfield-Mazzi is an art historian specializing in art of autonomous-era and colonial Latin America, especially that of colonial Peru and Bolivia. Her books on sculpture, painting, and textiles focus on the ways in which Indigenous peoples of the Americas contributed to creating new forms of Catholicism. Her latest book, Collective Creativity and Artistic Agency in Colonial Latin America, explores what it meant to be an artist in colonial Latin America. Her new research explores the concept of the secular as it developed in the mining city of Potosí, Bolivia.

Art and History of Ancient and Colonial Latin America

Latin American Studies

English

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TEDxUF holds its first salon-style event of the year

An Interview with Maya Stanfield-Mazzi, author of “Clothing the New World Church”

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The book provides the first broad survey of church textiles of Spanish America and demonstrates that, while overlooked, textiles were a vital part of visual culture in the Catholic Church. Presentation by author Maya Stanfield-Mazzi, Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Florida. She is also the author of Object and Apparition: Envisioning the Christian Divine in the Colonial Andes (University of Arizona Press, 2013).

Discussion with Rosario I. Granados, the Marilynn Thoma Associate Curator of Art of the Spanish Americas at the Blanton Museum of Art, the University of Texas at Austin. She is the curator of the upcoming exhibition Painted Cloth: Ritual and Fashion in Colonial Latin America at the Blanton.

Maya Stanfield-Mazzi Book Launch: Clothing the New World Church

December 8—9, 2017, The Getty Center
Presentations by Maya Stanfield-Mazzi and Kim Richter for Claudia Brosseder; after, Claudia Brosseder (via Skype) and Manuel Aguilar-Moreno join for a discussion. 
Moderated by Manuel Aguilar-Moreno

This symposium brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars to explore the ways in which indigenous knowledge contributed to the making of colonial Latin America. A dozen talks will examine practices related to art, architecture, science, medicine, governance, and the study of the past, among other topics. 

This event is related to two exhibitions that showcase magnificent examples of work by indigenous artists and authors: Golden Kingdoms: Luxury and Legacy in the Ancient Americas, at the Getty Center, and Visual Voyages: Images of Latin American Nature from Columbus to Darwin, at The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, which form part of Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA. This program is generously supported by the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute, the Seaver Institute and the Getty Research Institute. 

Conference Organizers: 
Daniela Bleichmar, University of Southern California
Kim Richter, Getty Research Institute 

Participants: 
Allison Bigelow, University of Virginia (and current fellow, The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens) 
Daniela Bleichmar, University of Southern California
Amber Brian, University of Iowa
Claudia Brosseder, University of Illinois
Davide Domenici, Università di Bologna
Martha Few, Pennsylvania State University
Mariana De Campos Françozo, Universiteit Leiden
Pablo F. Gómez, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Kris Lane, Tulane University
Kelly McDonough, University of Texas at Austin
Gabriela Siracusano, Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero
Maya Stanfield-Mazzi, University of Florida

Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA is an initiative of the Getty with arts institutions across Southern California. The presenting sponsor is Bank of America.

More about this event: 
http://www.getty.edu/visit/cal/events/ev_1939.html

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