“Style” has been one of the cornerstones not only of the modern discipline of art history but also of social and cultural history. In this volume, the writers consider the inadequacy of the concept of style as essential to a person, people, place, or period. While the subject matter of this book is specific to religious practices and artifacts from New Mexico between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries, the implications of these investigations are far reaching historically, methodologically, and theoretically.
The essays collected here explore the Catholic instruments of religious devotion produced in New Mexico from around 1760 until the radical transformation of the tradition in the twentieth century. The writers in this volume make three key arguments. First, they make a case for bringing new theoretical perspectives and research strategies to bear on the New Mexican materials and other colonial contexts. Second, they demonstrate that the New Mexican materials provide an excellent case study for rethinking many of the most fundamental questions in art-historical and anthropological study. Third, the authors collectively argue that the New Mexican images had, and still have, importance to diverse audiences and makers. 
The distinctiveness of New Mexican santos consists not only in their subjects (which conformed to Catholic Reformation tastes) but also in elements that may appear to have been “merely decorative”: graphically striking and frequently elaborate abstract design motifs and landscape references. Despite their anonymity, the images are, as a group, readily distinguished from local products anywhere else in the Spanish colonial world. This distinctiveness suggests that we should inquire not so much about the individual identities of their makers as about the collective identity of the society and place that produced and used them.

Transforming Images: New Mexican Santos in-between Worlds

Arts & Photography

Pierce, Donna

Farago, Claire

History & Criticism

Penn State University Press

Mexican Churches

Presents color photographs of the architecture and interior decorations and statues of Catholic churches in Mexico

PORTER, Eliot

Auerbach, Ellen

Photography & Video

Univ of New Mexico Pr

A photographic journey through the religious tradition of Mexico shows the blending of Old and New World traditions

Mexican Celebrations

Bol, Marsha C.

Religion & Spirituality

A documentary project on Saint James or Santiago, as he is known in Spanish, which traces the ancient pilgrimage route in Spain to Santiago de Compostela and shows depictions of Santiago in the New World. Photographs by Joan Myers; essays by Mark Simmons, Donna Pierce and Joan Myers. 73 pages plus 84 single-sided, full-page, duo-toned b&amp;w plates and a two-page map; 8.5 x 10.5 inches.

Santiago: Saint of Two Worlds

Simmons, Marc

Myers, Joan

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Book by Simmons, Marc, Pierce, Donna, Myers, Joan

History

Europe

Book by Palmer, Gabrielle G., Pierce, Donna

Cambios: The Spirit of Transformation in Spanish Colonial Art

Palmer, Gabrielle G.

Palmer, Gabrielle G., Pierce, Donna

Cambios: The Spirit of Transformation in Spanish Colonial Art : Essays

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The City Gardener's Cookbook: Totally Fresh, Mostly Vegetarian, Decidedly Delicious Recipes from Seattle's P-Patches

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Seattle's P-Patches

Cooking Education & Reference

Sasquatch Books

During the Spanish Colonial period in Latin America (1521–1850), precious gold and silver were crafted into elegant jewelry, then embellished with emeralds from Colombia, coral from Mexico, and pearls from Venezuela. To demonstrate their wealth and status, people were painted wearing their finest dress and elaborate jewelry. Selecting from its permanent collection, the Denver Art Museum installed the long-running exhibition Glitterati: Portraits and Jewelry in Colonial Latin America in its Spanish Colonial galleries in December 2014. This lavishly illustrated publication serves as a companion to the Glitterati exhibition and, on a larger scale, to the collection of Spanish Colonial jewelry and portraiture at the museum.   The Spanish Colonial collection at the Denver Art Museum is the most comprehensive of its kind in the United States and one of the best in the world with outstanding examples of painting, sculpture, furniture, decorative arts, silver and goldwork, and jewelry from all over Latin America during the time of the Spanish colonies. The Stapleton Foundation of Latin American Colonial Art, made possible by the Renchard family, gifted art acquired by the intrepid Daniel C. Stapleton between 1895 and 1914, when he worked in Ecuador, Colombia, and Venezuela overseeing plantations and emerald mines. Frederick and Jan Mayer worked closely with museum curators to build a collection of Mexican colonial art rich in many subjects and media, notably portrait paintings. Examples from both of these major collections are augmented by other pieces of jewelry and portraiture from the museum’s permanent collection in the Glitterati exhibition and in this volume. 

Companion to Glitterati: Portraits and Jewelry from Colonial Latin America

Frick, Julie W.

Caruso, Laura

Denver Art Museum

During the Spanish Colonial period in Latin America (1521–1850), precious gold and silver were crafted into elegant jewelry, then embellished with emeralds from Colombia, coral from Mexico, and pearls from Venezuela. To demonstrate their wealth and status, people were painted wearing their finest dress and elaborate jewelry. Selecting from its permanent collection, the Denver Art Museum installed the long-running exhibition Glitterati: Portraits and Jewelry in Colonial Latin America in its Spanish Colonial galleries in December 2014. This lavishly illustrated publication serves as a companion to the Glitterati exhibition and, on a larger scale, to the collection of Spanish Colonial jewelry and portraiture at the museum. The Spanish Colonial collection at the Denver Art Museum is the most comprehensive of its kind in the United States and one of the best in the world with outstanding examples of painting, sculpture, furniture, decorative arts, silver and goldwork, and jewelry from all over Latin America during the time of the Spanish colonies. The Stapleton Foundation of Latin American Colonial Art, made possible by the Renchard family, gifted art acquired by the intrepid Daniel C. Stapleton between 1895 and 1914, when he worked in Ecuador, Colombia, and Venezuela overseeing plantations and emerald mines. Frederick and Jan Mayer worked closely with museum curators to build a collection of Mexican colonial art rich in many subjects and media, notably portrait paintings. Examples from both of these major collections are augmented by other pieces of jewelry and portraiture from the museum’s permanent collection in the Glitterati exhibition and in this volume.

Companion to Glitterati: Portraits and Jewelry from Colonial Latin America at the Denver Art Museum

Frick, Julie Wilson

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Books by Pierce, Donna

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Transforming Images: New Mexican Santos in-between Worlds

Mexican Churches

Mexican Celebrations

Santiago: Saint of Two Worlds

Santiago: Saint of Two Worlds

Cambios: The Spirit of Transformation in Spanish Colonial Art

Cambios: The Spirit of Transformation in Spanish Colonial Art : Essays

The City Gardener's Cookbook: Totally Fresh, Mostly Vegetarian, Decidedly Delicious Recipes from Seattle's P-Patches

Companion to Glitterati: Portraits and Jewelry from Colonial Latin America

Companion to Glitterati: Portraits and Jewelry from Colonial Latin America at the Denver Art Museum