Buen Gusto and Classicism in the Visual Cultures of Latin America, 1780-1910

Contributors

273 Contributors Carla Bocchetti is an assistant professor and the director of the historical archive at the Universidad del Rosario in Colombia and a former assistant professor in the Department of Literature at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia in Bogotá. She is the recipient of a fellowship from the Center for Hellenic Studies at Harvard University. Her work considers the adaptation of Greco-Roman classicism in nineteenth-century Latin America, and she has published internationally on the subject in such journals as the ERAS Journal, and Revista ARGOS: Revista Anual de la Asociación Argentina de Estudios Clásicos. She is the editor of the recent volume La influencia clásica en América Latina. Robert Bradley has spent the past eleven years studying the pre-Columbian architecture of the Chachapoya culture in Peru’s northeastern cloud forest. He has written a book about the most celebrated ruin in this region, titled The Architecture of Kuelap. At present he is deeply involved in a project that will map a shrine dedicated to a pre-Columbian heroine. Dr. Bradley’s article “Sudado de Raya: An Ancient Peruvian Dish” was published in the winter 2012 issue of the journal Gastronomica. Currently he is an assistant professor of art history at the University of Texas–Pan American. Charles Burroughs is the Elsie B. Smith Professor of Liberal Arts in the Department of Classics at Case Western Reserve University. He is a historian of built environments and visual culture in Italy and, more recently, in the Luso-Hispanic Americas. His publications include From Signs to Design: Environmental Process and Reform in Early Renaissance Rome, as well as his more recent book, The Italian Renaissance Palace Façade: Structures of 274 contributors 274 Authority, Surfaces of Sense. Currently, he is working with an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars from the United States, Brazil, and Cuba on plantation landscapes and architecture, as well as representations of these, in the Americas in the era of the “second slavery,” which includes the early and mid-nineteenth century. Magali Carrera is a professor of art history at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth and the author of Imagining Identity in New Spain: Race, Lineage, and the Colonial Body in Portraiture and Casta Paintings, published by University of Texas Press in 2003. Her new book, Traveling from New Spain to Mexico: Cartography and the Narration of Nation in Nineteenth-Century Mexico, was published by Duke University Press in 2011. Susan Deans-Smith is an associate professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of the award-winning book Bureaucrats, Planters, and Workers. The Making of the Tobacco Monopoly in Bourbon Mexico and coeditor of Mexican Soundings: Essays in Honour of David A. Brading, with Eric Van Young, and Race and Classification: The Case of Mexican America, with Ilona Katzew. Her recent essays include “‘Dishonor in the Hands of Indians, Spaniards, and Blacks’: The (Racial) Politics of Painting in Early Modern Mexico” (2009) and “‘A Natural and Voluntary Dependence’: The Royal Academy of San Carlos and the Cultural Politics of Art Education in Mexico City, 1786–1797” (2010). She is currently completing a book, “Matters of Taste: The Politics of Culture in Mexico and the Royal Academy of San Carlos (1781–1821).” Her research has been supported by fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Social Science Research Council, the Spanish Cultural Ministry, and the Andrew Mellon Foundation. She currently serves on the editorial board of Colonial Latin American Review. Kelly Donahue-Wallace is an associate professor of art history at the University of North Texas and has published widely on the significance of printmaking in colonial New Spain. Her articles have appeared in the journals The Americas, Print Quarterly, Colonial Latin American Review, Tiempos de América, Mexican Studies/Estudios mexicanos, Anales del Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas, Colonial Latin American Historical Review, and Aurora: Journal of Art History. Her research has been funded by Spain’s Program for Cultural Cooperation, the Institute for International Education, 275 contributors 275 and the Lilly Library. She is the author of the recent and critically acclaimed survey of colonial Latin American art history Art and Architecture of Viceregal Latin America, 1521–1821, published by the University of New Mexico Press. She is currently working on a study of the Spanish engraver Jerónimo Antonio Gil and his work in Spain and New Spain...