Extremely rich site for understanding the art of a particular region and time. Use the Time Period and Geographic menus to see key Works of Art, Related Exhibitions, and, under Related Content, Thematic Essays. Essays include several related to Latin America including:
• Arts of the Mission Schools in Mexico
Journal Article Indexes
Art Full Text
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Offers abstracts of journals, museum bulletins and yearbooks in the fields of art, architecture, decorative arts and photography. Covers abstracts from 1929-present, full-text articles 1997-present.
International Bibliography of Art
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Provides coverage of scholarship on European art from late antiquity to the present, American art from the colonial era to the present, and global art since 1945. Covers 500 core journals, plus detailed coverage of monographs, essay collections, conference proceedings and exhibition catalogs. For material published before 2008, see the Bibliography of the History of Art.
Provides access to nearly three thousand images from Spanish American sources including maps, prints, and book illustrations.
ARTstor
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A digital library that provides access to thousands of digital images derived from a variety of museum, library and archival collections. Images support a variety of disciplines including architecture, painting, sculpture, decorative arts, and design.
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ArtStor provides 13 thematic groups of images curated by Latin American historian, Rachel Moore. The groups range in time from the first colonial encounters through the age of independence. The images convey important historical information and represent a variety of view points.
Themes treated include metizaje, politics, religion, and material culture. "The website provides a gallery of more than 100 color images, interpretive essays, and a searchable bibliography on visual culture."
These colonial era paintings provide visual evidence for distinctions that were made among ethnic and cultural groups.
Race and Classification by Ilona Katzew (Editor); Susan Deans-Smith (Editor)
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Publication Date: 2009-07-23
This innovative and provocative volume focuses on the historical development of racial thinking and imagining in Mexico and the southwestern United States over a period of almost five centuries, from the earliest decades of Spanish colonial rule and the birth of a multiracial colonial population, to the present. Also available online.