A fascinating account of the modern reinvention of the image of the Indian in nineteenth-century literature and visual culture, seen through the work of Peruvian painter Francisco Laso.
A fascinating account of the modern reinvention of the image of the Indian in nineteenth-century literature and visual culture, seen through the work of Peruvian painter Francisco Laso.
Natalia Majluf is an art historian and curator based in Lima, Peru. She is the Tinker visiting professor at the University of Chicago Fall 2021.
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1. A Note on the Text 2. Preface 3. 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 4. 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 5. 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 6. 3. Picturing Race * Impossible Images * The Elusive Indian 7. Epilogue: Personal Narratives, Public Images 8. Chronology 9. Notes 10. Bibliography 11. Index
1. A Note on the Text 2. Preface 3. 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 4. 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 5. 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 6. 3. Picturing Race * Impossible Images * The Elusive Indian 7. Epilogue: Personal Narratives, Public Images 8. Chronology 9. Notes 10. Bibliography 11. Index
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