Review: Inventing Indigenism: Francisco Laso’s Image of Modern Peru, by Natalia Majluf

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Book Review| April 01 2023 Review: Inventing Indigenism: Francisco Laso’s Image of Modern Peru, by Natalia Majluf Inventing Indigenism: Francisco Laso’s Image of Modern Peru, by Natalia Majluf. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2021. 245 pages. Hardcover $50.00, ebook $50.00. Verónica Uribe Hanabergh Verónica Uribe Hanabergh Universidad de los Andes Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture (2023) 5 (2): 149–150. https://doi.org/10.1525/lavc.2023.5.2.149 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Verónica Uribe Hanabergh; Review: Inventing Indigenism: Francisco Laso’s Image of Modern Peru, by Natalia Majluf. Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture 1 April 2023; 5 (2): 149–150. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/lavc.2023.5.2.149 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentLatin American and Latinx Visual Culture Search Art historian Natalia Majluf’s Inventing Indigenism derives from her doctoral dissertation, which she returned to after working for more than twenty years (1995–2018) at the Museo de Arte de Lima, first as curator in chief and then as director. She was able to revise, update, and publish her research while she was the Simón Bolívar Visiting Chair at the Centre of Latin American Studies, University of Cambridge (2018–19). This book is a must-read for anyone interested in the modern construction of Peru, a process Majluf examines through a deep, well-thought-out textual and visual proposition based on a single painting: Francisco Laso’s Habitante de las Cordilleras del Perú (Inhabitant of the Peruvian Highlands, 1855). The strength of this painting is already latent on the cover; its seriousness, massiveness, and centrality are visually evident and become even more influential throughout the text, as Majluf intelligently examines modern indigenism and the... You do not currently have access to this content.