Las Meninas: A Decolonial Response

• Autores: Walter Mignolo
• Localización: Art bulletin, ISSN 0004-3079, Vol. 92, Nº 1-2, 2010, págs. 40-46
• 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. 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 is less concerned with whether or not the painting falls in the domain of colonial studies than he is with looking at the painting from a decolonial perspective.