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Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture (2020) 2 (4): 1–3.
Published: 18 December 2020
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Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture (2020) 2 (4): 4–13.
Published: 18 December 2020
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Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture (2020) 2 (4): 14–31.
Published: 18 December 2020
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This article explores how the Nahua of late Postclassic Mesoamerica (1200–1521 CE) created living and material embodiments of their wind god constructed on the basis of sensory experiences that shaped their conception of this divinized meteorological phenomenon. In this process, they employed chromatic and design devices, based on a wide range of natural elements, to add several layers of meaning to the human, painted, and sculpted supports dressed in the god’s insignia. Through a comparative examination of pre-Columbian visual production—especially codices and sculptures—historical sources mainly written in Nahuatl during the viceregal period, and ethnographic data on indigenous communities in modern Mexico, my analysis targets the body paint and shell jewelry of the anthropomorphic “images” of the wind god, along with the Feathered Serpent and the monkey-inspired embodiments of the deity. This study identifies the centrality of other human senses beyond sight in the conception of the wind god and the making of its earthly manifestations. Constructing these deity “images” was tantamount to creating the wind because they were intended to be visual replicas of the wind’s natural behavior. At the same time, they referred to the identity and agency of the wind god in myths and rituals.
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Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture (2020) 2 (4): 32–54.
Published: 18 December 2020
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Sandra Ramos (b. 1969) is one of the few artists to reflect critically on both sides of the Cuban di-lemma, fully embodying the etymological origins of the word in ancient Greek: di -, meaning twice, and lemma , denoting a form of argument involving a choice between equally unfavorable alternatives. Throughout her works she shines a light on the dilemmas faced by Cubans whether in Cuba or the United States, underlining the bad personal and political choices people face in both countries. During the hard 1990s, while still in Havana, the artist focused on the traumatic one-way journey into exile by thousands, as well as the experience of profound abandonment experienced by those who were left behind on the island. Today she lives in Miami and operates a studio there as well as one in Havana. Her initial disorientation in the USA has morphed into an acerbic representation and critique of the current administration and a deep concern with the environmental collapse we face. A buffoonlike Trumpito has joined el Bobo de Abela and Liborio in her gallery of comic characters derived from the rich Cuban graphic arts tradition where she was formed. While Cuba is now represented as a rotten cake with menacing flies hovering over it ready to pounce, a bombastic Trumpito marches across the world stage, trampling everything underfoot, a dollar sign for a face.
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Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture (2020) 2 (4): 55–60.
Published: 18 December 2020
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This collection of essays reconsiders a seminal 1961 article by George Kubler, the most important art historian of Latin America of the English-speaking world at the time of its writing. Often greeted with indifference or hostility, Kubler’s central claim of extinction is still a highly contested one. The essays in this section deal with Kubler’s reception in Mexico, the political stakes of his claim in relation to indigeneity, as well as the utility of Kubler’s categories and objects of “extinction” beyond their original framing paradigm.
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Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture (2020) 2 (4): 61–66.
Published: 18 December 2020
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Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture (2020) 2 (4): 67–71.
Published: 18 December 2020
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Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture (2020) 2 (4): 72–78.
Published: 18 December 2020
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Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture (2020) 2 (4): 79–83.
Published: 18 December 2020
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Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture (2020) 2 (4): 84–87.
Published: 18 December 2020
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Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture (2020) 2 (4): 88–90.
Published: 18 December 2020
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Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture (2020) 2 (4): 91–96.
Published: 18 December 2020
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Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture (2020) 2 (4): 97–98.
Published: 18 December 2020
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Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture (2020) 2 (4): 99–100.
Published: 18 December 2020
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Published: 18 December 2020
Figure 1. William Spratling (1900–67), Quetzalcoatl head brooch (prendedor cabeza de Quetzalcóatl), 1938–44, sterling silver, 2 × 3¼ × 1½ in. (5.08 × 8.26 × 3.81 cm), Gift of Ronald A. Belkin (M.2013.4.11), Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles (digital image ©2020 Museum Associates / LACM... More
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Published: 18 December 2020
Figure 2. Altar or cuauhxicalli depicting a feathered serpent (Mexica), fifteenth to early sixteenth century, basalt. Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City (11.0-03111) (photograph courtesy of the Archivo Digital de las Colecciones del Museo Nacional de Antropología. -INAH.-MNA.-CANON.-MEX... More
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in Trans-forming Vessels: The “Strange Faces” in a Set of Mixtec Ceramics
> Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture
Published: 18 December 2020
Figure 1. Unknown artist, tripod vessel, ceramic, Oaxaca. Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City (Cat: 07.0-02535; digital archive of the collections of the National Museum of Anthropology, reproduction authorized by the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia. Secretaría de Cultura-INA... More
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Published: 18 December 2020
Figure 1. Luis de Riaño (attrib.), The Annunciation , choir loft mural, c. 1626, fresco, church of San Pedro Apóstol, Andahuaylillas, Peru (photo by Diego Pumacallao). More
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in The Medium that Sustained the Chicken Heart: An Ancient Motif in a Codex Durán Painting
> Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture
Published: 18 December 2020
Figure 1. Huehue Huitzilihuitl addressing the Mexica at Chapultepec. Codex Durán, folio 11 recto, 1576–81, pigment on European paper (VITR/26/11, Biblioteca Nacional de España, Madrid) More
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in The Pre-Hispanic in Landscape: Ethnography with the Mapa de Coatlinchan
> Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture
Published: 18 December 2020
Figure 1. Mapa de Coatlinchan , sixteenth century, pigment on amatl (fig-bark) paper, 16½ x 18⅛ in. (42 x 46 cm), Biblioteca Nacional de Antropología e Historia (BNAH-35-16; reproduction authorized by the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia). More