Historiografías y nuevas perspectivas

Abstract

This collection of essays, and those in the upcoming 3.4 issue, present papers originally shared at the Congreso de Arte Virreinal: El futuro del arte del pasado, an international symposium organized in Lima, Perú in 2019 by Dr. Katherine Moore McAllen and Verónica Muñoz-Nájar Luque. This event, supported by the Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation, presented twenty-four lectures at the Centro Cultural Ccori Wasi at the Universidad Ricardo Palma. These essays, co-edited by McAllen and Muñoz-Nájar, are currently being published as the Diálogos Thoma to share new research examining the diversity of perspectives in Spanish colonial visual culture to re-think the art history canon and consider how artists negotiated their identity to generate new artistic inventions in colonial Latin America. These essays also consider how viceregal art is not merely an art of the past by challenging analytical paradigms and shedding light on contemporary artists who actively engage with colonial art today. The essays are published in Spanish to acknowledge the countries from where this field of study originates, with an English appendix to share research in a hemispheric dialogue that gives visibility to flourishing networks of Latin American art history scholars around the world.