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Abstract

This collection of essays in the Diálogos Thoma issue, Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture 3.4, continue to share the research that has generated from the Congreso de Arte Virreinal “El futuro del arte del pasado,” an international symposium held in Lima, Peru in July 2019. This Diálogos Thoma continues these hemispheric and international conversations among scholars that began at the Thoma Congreso in 2019 and continued in LALVC 3.3. These essays in both issues contribute to the theoretical and methodological transformations in our field to create dynamic new trajectories for Spanish colonial art history to study the visual culture of Peru and colonial Latin America in the future. By challenging essentialist art histories and highlighting the unique and thriving native cultures that survived and flourished after the Spanish conquest, these essays highlight the visible and invisible presence of indigenous and Spanish American forms of art and invention that were often stylistically linked to European precedents but also intertwined in a much more complex colonial reality that disguised ethnic labels and complicated binary frameworks of analysis. Authors in this issue of the Diálogos Thoma examine regional art and non-European aesthetics to consider the historiographical implications of elevating colonial art and uncovering and valuing Indigenous and American artistic expressions through scholarly research and current museum exhibitions.