Beyond the Retablo: Forgotten Sculpture in Colonial Latin America

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Uptown Campus
Greenleaf Conference Room
Other location info
6801 Freret St. Room 100A, New Orleans, LA, 6801 Freret St., New Orleans, LA

A one-day workshop on the art of colonial Latin America that will bring together, in-person, a small group of scholars from different latitudes to Tulane’s historic campus. During our day together, we will present short papers and discuss ideas on the topic “Beyond the Retablo: Overlooked Sculpture in Colonial Latin America.” The rationale is this: across Latin America, the best-known sculptures are those found in original contexts, such as the church retablo and facades. But publics in colonial-era Latin America engaged with a range of sculptural objects that have subsequently been overlooked by the field of art history.

 

PROGRAM

  • 8:00 — Coffee and Pastries (Light Breakfast)
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  • 9:00 — Welcoming Remarks and Introduction to the question
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  • 9:30 — Panel 1: Processes of Making and Artists' Roles | Stephanie Porras (chair); Lucía Querejazu ) El taller de CopacabanaÑ un estudio de caso sobre el ejercicio del poder a través de la imagen); Derek Burdette ( Between Anonymous and Acheiropoieta: Reconsidering the Role of the Artis in the Production of Miraculous Imagery); Nicole Jozwik (Conscripted Artists: Expanding the Labor-sphere of Potosí's Workshops)
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  • 11:00 — Break
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  • 11:30 — Panel 2: Matter in Motion: Sculptural Materiality & Ephimerality | John Charles (chair); Pala Mues Orts (Mirar al pasar: celebración y escultura efímera novohispana del siglo XVII); Diana Castillo Cerf (Del corazón del maguey a la escultura virreinal andina: un acercamiento metodológico a su estudio ); Xena Fitzgerald ("La major cosa que ay en esta ciudad": the Christ Child in Action
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  • 1:00 — Lunch
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  • 2:15 — Panel 3: Challenging the Canon: Reshaping Dialogues on Sculpture | Adrian Anagnost (chair); Josefina Schenke (Propuesta de Renovación del 'canon' de los estudios de imaginería colonial hispanoamericana: El caso de las esculturas policromadas de pequeño formato en chile [siglos XVII y XIX]); Orlando Hernández Ying (Reconsidering the Altarpieces of Tunja: Innovation and Interaction); María Carrillo Marquina (Sculptural Remnants:Reconsidering San Iphigenia in Capulálpam de Méndez's Retablos).