Research Catalog

Title

Visualizing Guadalupe : from Black Madonna to Queen of the Americas / by Jeanette Favrot Peterson.

Author

Peterson, Jeanette Favrot.

Publication

Austin : University of Texas Press, 2014.

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Details

Description

xiv, 332 pages : illustrations (some color); 29 cm.

Summary

• "The Virgin of Guadalupe is famously migratory, traversing continents and crossing and recrossing oceans. Guadalupe's earliest cult originated in medieval Iberia, where Our Lady of Guadalupe from Extremadura, Spain, played a significant role in the reconquista and garnered royal backing. The Spanish Guadalupe accompanied the conquistadors as part of the spiritual arsenal used to Christianize the Americas, where new images of the Virgin acted as catalysts to implant her devotion within multiethnic constituencies.. This masterful study by Jeanette Favrot Peterson traces the transmission of Guadalupe as la Virgen de ida y vuelta from Spain to the Americas and back again, analyzing how the Spanish and Mexican titular images, and a selection of the copies they inspired, operated within the overlapping spheres of religion and politics. Peterson explores two central paradoxes: that only through a material object can a divine and invisible presence be authenticated and that Guadalupe's images were made to work for enacting revolutionary change while preserving the colonial status quo. She examines the artists who created images of Guadalupe, their patrons, and the diverse viewing audiences for whom those images were intended. This exegesis reveals that visual evidence functioned on a par with written texts (treatises, chronicles, and sermons of ecclesiastical officialdom) in measuring popular beliefs and political strategies."--
• "Spanning more than three hundred years and straddling several continents, this image-based survey analyzes the iconography and political ramifications of both the medieval Spanish devotion to Guadalupe, a black Madonna, and her American counterparts in South America and Mexico. Peterson explores the power of images that operate within the overlapping spheres of religion and political life. As a symbol both of conquest and liberation, Guadalupe embodies the ambivalence and tension of a powerful image that historically fostered independence and yet simultaneously, as a symbol of colonial authority, endorsed the very political structure it was often deployed to overthrow"--

Series Statement

Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long series in Latin American and Latino art and culture

Uniform Title

Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long series in Latin American and Latino art and culture.

Subjects

• Art and society > Mexico
• Christian art and symbolism > Mexico > Modern period, 1500-
• Guadalupe, Our Lady of > Art
• Black Madonnas > Spain
• Christian art and symbolism > Spain > Modern period, 1500-
• Black Madonnas > Mexico
• Art and society > Spain

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-318) and index.

Contents

Introduction : The Subjectivity of Seeing -- The Sacrality of Blackness -- "Because She Was of Their Color" -- Her Presence in Her Absence -- Making Guadalupe -- A "Book of Miracles" -- Sacred Cloth and Veiled Body -- Aura and Authorship -- The Civil/Savage Paradox -- The Viceroys and the Virgin -- Collecting Guadalupe.

Call Number

JQF 14-431

ISBN

• 9780292737754 (hardback)
• 0292737750 (hardback)

LCCN

2013024217

OCLC

855977459

Author

Peterson, Jeanette Favrot.

Title

Visualizing Guadalupe : from Black Madonna to Queen of the Americas / by Jeanette Favrot Peterson.

Publisher

Austin : University of Texas Press, 2014.

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long series in Latin American and Latino art and culture

Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long series in Latin American and Latino art and culture.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-318) and index.

Sudoc No.

Z UA380.8 P442vi txdocs

Research Call Number

JQF 14-431