Theaters of conversion : religious architecture and Indian artisans in colonial Mexico

Theaters of conversion : religious architecture and Indian artisans in colonial Mexico / Samuel Y. Edgerton ; with photographs by Jorge Pérez de Lara ; drawings by Mark Van Stone, James E. Ivey, and the author.

Author/creator	Edgerton, Samuel Y.
Other author/creator	Pérez de Lara, Jorge.
Format	Book and Print
Edition	1st ed.
Publication Info	Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, ©2001.
Description	xvii, 350 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm
Subject(s)	Christian art and symbolism--Modern period, 1500- --Mexico. Church architecture--Mexico. Missionaries--Mexico --History.

Contents	Introduction : art as a tool of Christian conversion -- ch. 1. The millennium of the Mendicant friars -- ch. 2. The cross and the tree : the Christian convento as Indian cosmos -- ch. 3. The arch and the cave : open chapels in the Yucatán -- ch. 4. Indians and Renaissance art : Fray Pedro de Gante's School of Art at San José de Los Naturales -- ch. 5. Christian murals by Indian artists -- ch. 6. The convento as theater : medieval autos and nahua neixcuitill -- ch. 7. Stage and scenery -- ch. 8. The cloister as theater : Adam and Eve lost in Aztec paradise -- ch. 9. The convento as theater of memory -- ch. 10. "El Dorado" : the desolate desert conventos of New Mexico, 1598-1700 -- ch. 11. Religious architecture in "Those most remote provinces".
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-344) and index.
LCCN	00011870
ISBN	0826322565

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Joyner	General Stacks	N7914.A1 E34 2001	✔ Available	Place Hold