Resumen de The Invisible? New World
A response to Byron Ellsworth Hamann's essay “The Mirrors of Las Meninas: Cochineal, Silver, and Clay,” published in the March/June 2010 issue of The Art Bulletin. In his essay, Hamann seeks to demonstrate that Velázquez's 1656 painting Las meninas reveals transatlantic connections linking Amerindian laborers in the New World to Spanish courtiers in Madrid, from which he concludes that the painting can be included in the the field of colonial studies. Here, the writer contends that, while Hamann's stimulating essay points to an essential problem of early modern Iberian visual culture, it fails to consider other important issues relating to the presence of the New World in the canon.
