Picturing Colonial Encounters

• Autores: Adam Herring
• Localización: Art bulletin, ISSN 0004-3079, Vol. 92, Nº 1-2, 2010, págs. 36-39
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • 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. The writer praises Hamann's essay—which situates Velázquez's famous painting, Las Meninas, in the wider political economy of cultural production in Spain and its colonial possessions—for its contribution to Velázquez studies and for allying its critical concerns to the history of globalization. However, the writer contends that Hamann's argument significantly underestimates the ambivalence and thematic complexity inherent in the painting.