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The guild of painters in the evolution of art in colonial Cusco
[working paper]
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Universität Luzern, Kultur- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät, Soziologisches Seminar
Abstract "This article aims at reappraising the role of the painters' guild in the evolution of art in
colonial Cusco by critically assessing the theory proposed by José de Mesa and Teresa Gisbert,
according to which the Indian painters' separation from this organization in the last decades of the
sevente... view more
"This article aims at reappraising the role of the painters' guild in the evolution of art in
colonial Cusco by critically assessing the theory proposed by José de Mesa and Teresa Gisbert,
according to which the Indian painters' separation from this organization in the last decades of the
seventeenth century caused the emergence of a local school of painting. Based mainly on an
analysis of the sources used by these authors and on Francisco Quiroz's research on the situation of
guilds in colonial Lima, it is argued that, whereas Indian painters might effectively have separated
themselves from the painters' guild of Cusco around 1688, the historical narration constructed by
Mesa and Gisbert erroneously assumes that this organization effectively enforced, before its split,
ordinances similar to the ones approved for the painters' guild of Lima in 1649. Therefore, one
should not assume that this event had decisive consequences in the evolution of art in this region.
This article further argues that, by integrating Francisco Stastny's characterization of colonial
peripheries and Niklas Luhmann's conceptualization of art as a form of communication, both the
stylistic and the institutional histories of art in this region during the colonial period can be given
account for as responding to a more encompassing societal context in terms of a non-differentiated
art form characteristic of colonial peripheries." [author's abstract]... view less
Keywords
guild; painter; art; evolution; colonialism; American Indian; local factors; Luhmann, N.; social system; sociology of art; communication; Peru
Classification
Cultural Sociology, Sociology of Art, Sociology of Literature
Sociology of Communication, Sociology of Language, Sociolinguistics
Method
historical; epistemological
Document language
English
Publication Year
2010
City
Luzern
Page/Pages
38 p.
Series
Workingpaper des Soziologischen Seminars, 01/2010
ISSN
1663-2540
Status
Published Version; reviewed
Licence
Deposit Licence - No Redistribution, No Modifications
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