Description:
Examines how the subtlety, variety, and inventiveness of American, Asian, and African creations and techniques encountered in the context of sixteenth century Iberian colonization challenged and revolutionized the definitions of what art is and what it means to be human.
Brief description: Alessandra Russo is Professor in the Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures at Columbia University. She is the author of The Untranslatable Image: A Mestizo History of the Arts in New Spain, 1500-160 and El realismo circular: Tierras, espacios y paisajes de la cartografía indígena novohispana, siglos XVI y XVII and a coeditor of Images Take Flight: Feather Art in Mexico and Europe.
Review Quotes:
"A New Antiquity: Art and Humanity as Universal, 1400-1600 is an impressively seminal and ground-breaking study that will compel a rethinking of the heretofore existing conceptions of Renaissance art and early modern humanity."
--Julie Summers Midwest Book Review