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Casta painting : images of race in eighteenth-century Mexico /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Katzew, Ilona
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New Haven : Yale University Press, [2004]
Subjects:	Casta painting. Multiracial people in art. Miscegenation (Racist theory) in art. Mexico > Social life and customs > 18th century.
ISBN:	0300102410 (cl : alk. paper)

Table of Contents:

Painters and paintings: a visual tradition and its historiography
"A marvelous variety of colors"?: racial ideology and the sistema de Castas
Rise of Casta painting: exoticism and Creole pride, 1711-1760
Changing perspectives: Casta painting in the era of the Bourbon reforms, 1760-1790
Theater of marvels: Casta paintings in the textual microcosmos
Concluding remarks: a genre with many meanings.