Sculpting Quito : religious art across domestic spheres /
"Leslie Todd's study of eighteenth-century polychrome sculptures in Quito tries to answer some core questions: what belief systems were shaped in the viewing and ownership of these figures, and how did a diverse group of viewers interact with them in public spaces and private residences? R...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Austin :
University of Texas Press,
2026.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | "Leslie Todd's study of eighteenth-century polychrome sculptures in Quito tries to answer some core questions: what belief systems were shaped in the viewing and ownership of these figures, and how did a diverse group of viewers interact with them in public spaces and private residences? Religious sculptures were intended to be used as a colonizing object, but Todd goes beyond studying the religious meanings of visual imagery to explore how visual culture extends to the less visible: the people, processes, and ideas that are not always explicit in the making and viewing of these images. In doing so, Todd is able to look past perceived indebtedness to Spanish visual traditions to consider the ways in which these materials were crafted by mestizo and Indigenous workers, incorporating local production processes and local visualities, and the local domestic spaces where they were often placed. While these sculptures were often commissioned by wealthy criollo patrons for private use, Todd finds compelling evidence through primary resources--such as wills and testaments--that these objects were often bequeathed to loyal mestizo and Indigenous servants, in ways that both underscored colonial class and power systems and status while simultaneously challenging the intentions (such as we can read them) of the sculptures and the new spaces in which they moved and were perhaps viewed by their new owners"-- |
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| Physical Description: | pages cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781477333686 1477333681 |