2010 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Representations of Intercultural Identity in Latin American Colonial Art

Research Project

Project/Area Number	20520084
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Section	一般
Research Field	Aesthetics/Art history
Research Institution	Osaka University
Principal Investigator	OKADA Hiroshige Osaka University, 文学研究科, 准教授 (00243741)
Project Period (FY)	2008 – 2010
Keywords	ラテンアメリカ / メキシコ / アンデス / 植民地美術 / キリスト教美術
Research Abstract	This research program has traced the historical process of the intercultural negotiations in the Viceroyalty of Nueva Espana that produced a series of iconographical motifs of the "indigenous" nature and culture that appeared in the decoration of the sixteenth-century mission churches such as the well-known murals in the Convent of Ixmiquilpan. The comparative study between the visual documents such as "codices" made in the colonies and the American imagery invented in Europe after the Age of Discovery shows that those "indigenous" images were formed under the intervention of both European colonizers absorbed in the "exotic" interest toward the newly found territories, and the indigenous elite who reconstructed their cultural identity understanding even such an exoticism of the new rulers.

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