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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Natalia MajlufPublisher: University of Texas Press Imprint: University of Texas Press Dimensions: Width: 17.80cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 25.40cm Weight: 0.680kg ISBN: 9781477324080ISBN 10: 1477324089 Pages: 232 Publication Date: 21 December 2021 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsA Note on the Text Preface Introduction Francisco Laso: A Republican Biography Indigenism's National Imaginaries From Society, into Painting, and Back Precedents: A Short History of the Indian-Concept and Image 1. The Indian: Image of the Nation A Local Antiquity Idealization Painting's Critical Function Gonzalo Pizarro: The Scene of Conquest and the Spanish Legacy The Indian as Cultural Concept Creole Failures The Indian as Allegory and Symbol 2. The Scene of Approximation The Country of Melancholy: The Creole Invention of the Andean World Melancholy's Modern Transformations An Andean Legend: The Burial of the Priest The Inscrutable Indian The Rhetoric of Approximation: The Pascana Series A Critical Fortune of Racial Readings Reading Race: The Role of the Viewer The Construction of the Indian Image 3. Picturing Race Impossible Images The Elusive Indian Epilogue: Personal Narratives, Public Images Chronology Notes Bibliography IndexReviewsAs an examination of race, identity, visual culture, literature, and politics in nineteenth-century Peru, Inventing Indigenism is an important addition to the literature on Latin American art, and will be a pioneering text in the field, setting the stage for future scholarship on the region.- Michele Greet, George Mason University, author of Transatlantic Encounters: Latin American Artists in Paris between the Wars, 1918-1939 Natalia Majluf has gifted us with a brilliant and innovative study of one of the nineteenth century's most original artists: Francisco Laso. As the peasant and worker were key subjects for Courbet and Millet in France, the Indian and race were Laso's primary focus in Peru. Majluf carefully combines analysis of Laso's hauntingly beautiful paintings, such as the Inhabitant of the Cordilleras of Peru, with the formation of Peru's national identity and the concept of the 'Indian'--later to become 'Indigenism.'- Thomas B.F. Cummins, Harvard University, director of Dumbarton Oaks, coeditor of Sacred Matters: Animacy and Authority in the Americas Inventing Indigenism adeptly explores the evolving discourse of modern indigenism in nineteenth-century Peru and intelligently asserts that Francisco Laso's majestic Inhabitant of the Cordilleras of Peru emerges out of cultural discourses of modernity. Majluf argues that Laso's Inhabitant is the result of an intellectual project that constructs the first representation of a modern Indian, an idealized symbol of the Indian as nation. As a Creole elite with an upbringing in political and intellectual circles, Laso was invested in building a collective national imaginary through his paintings of indigenous people and traditions. For students and scholars alike, this book markedly advances the scholarship on nineteenth-century Latin American art.- Mey-Yen Moriuchi, La Salle University, author of Mexican Costumbrismo: Race, Society, and Identity in Nineteenth-Century Art Inventing Indigenism winds through the dense and entangled evolution of nationalist concepts and emblematic racial envisionings of the Peruvian Indian, Indigeneity, and Indigenism...[Majluf's] narratives are compelling...and advance important information and insights through intricate and multifaceted analyses that view the notion of nation as unstable...Inventing Indigenism is a multilayered examination of nation building. At the same time, the book asks all readers to consider how racial stereotypes and perspectives of the past, embedded in complex political and cultural viewpoints, continue as present day unfixed social constructs that still function in assessing the identity of self as well as others. * caa.reviews * [An] engagingly written and meticulously researched book…Among the many high-quality illustrations, the dark symmetry of the 'Inhabitant' amply depicts the dignity of Indian suffering, while a ceramic figurine, cupped reverentially in his hands, references the 'violent stifling' of Inca society and the resultant sense of loss that Laso believed to be imprinted in Indian memory. That is one message of this book. Its other considerable achievement is to have begun the restoration of the nineteenth century to its rightful place in the cultural history of both Peru and Latin America. * Times Literary Supplement * A groundbreaking study...The book, like a fine exhibition, is expertly curated to guide the reader through a fascinating exposition about the nineteenth-century origins of modern pictorial indigenism in Peru as featured in Laso’s work...This compelling and exquisite book is the product of a dedicated and masterful Art Historian. It is a book that should be required reading for every Latin American scholar conducting research on the complexities of colonial and republican legacies of Peruvian indigenism and identity politics. Natalia Majful’s contextual analysis and insightful expertise has rendered a valuable and most welcome scholarly contribution to both academic and nonacademic enthusiasts of Latin American art. * Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies * Majluf’s study is a welcome and much-needed addition...Her use of Francisco Laso’s iconic painting Inhabitant of the Cordilleras of Peru (1855) as a point of departure for the exploration of multiple discourses on Andean indigeneity in nineteenth-century Peru is an inspired strategic move. It reveals an artist who understood his world and the processes at work as Peru struggled to define itself...[Majluf's] study stands as a model for research in nineteenth-century Latin American art history, and her book should be of great interest to a range of audiences, given its nuanced exploration of the intersections between indigeneity, nationalist politics, and visual culture. * The Americas * Author InformationNatalia Majluf is an art historian and curator based in Lima, Peru. She is the Tinker visiting professor at the University of Chicago Fall 2021. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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