See also the Philadelphia Museum of Art web site for the exhibit which includes podcasts from the curator.
Oxford Art Online
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Oxford Art Online is an art reference library that searches Grove Art Online, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms, and The Encyclopedia of Aesthetics. This resource contains images, biographies, subject entries, and thematic timelines (antiquity to present).
Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
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.
Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA) and Répertoire international de la littérature de l'art (RILA). Abstracts of journal articles, books, conference proceedings, dissertations and exhibition and dealers' catalogs. Includes European and American art from late antiquity to the present. Covers material published between 1975-2007. Use International Bibliography of Art for coverage of publications after 2007.
Images Sources
Archive of Early American Images (Brown University)
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, photography, decorative arts, and design. Coverage varies.
Colonial Latin America Curriculum Guide
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.
Early Americas Digital Archive (University of Maryland)
Digital versions of texts written from 1492 to 1820 in or about the Americas.
Vistas: Visual Culture in Spanish America, 1520-1820 (Smith College)
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."
Casta Painting
Casta Painting by Ilona Katzew
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Publication Date: 2004-04-10
This study includes many illustrations of the genre.
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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ISBN: 9780804761406
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. T