Visualizing Guadalupe : from Black Madonna to Queen of the Americas

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Visualizing Guadalupe : from Black Madonna to Queen of the Americas
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from Black Madonna to Queen of the Americas
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by Jeanette Favrot Peterson
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  • "The Virgin of Guadalupe is famously migratory, traversing continents and crossing and recrossing oceans. Guadalupe's earliest cult originated in medieval Iberia, where Our Lady of Guadalupe from Extremadura, Spain, played a significant role in the reconquista and garnered royal backing. The Spanish Guadalupe accompanied the conquistadors as part of the spiritual arsenal used to Christianize the Americas, where new images of the Virgin acted as catalysts to implant her devotion within multiethnic constituencies.. This masterful study by Jeanette Favrot Peterson traces the transmission of Guadalupe as la Virgen de ida y vuelta from Spain to the Americas and back again, analyzing how the Spanish and Mexican titular images, and a selection of the copies they inspired, operated within the overlapping spheres of religion and politics. Peterson explores two central paradoxes: that only through a material object can a divine and invisible presence be authenticated and that Guadalupe's images were made to work for enacting revolutionary change while preserving the colonial status quo. She examines the artists who created images of Guadalupe, their patrons, and the diverse viewing audiences for whom those images were intended. This exegesis reveals that visual evidence functioned on a par with written texts (treatises, chronicles, and sermons of ecclesiastical officialdom) in measuring popular beliefs and political strategies."--
  • "Spanning more than three hundred years and straddling several continents, this image-based survey analyzes the iconography and political ramifications of both the medieval Spanish devotion to Guadalupe, a black Madonna, and her American counterparts in South America and Mexico. Peterson explores the power of images that operate within the overlapping spheres of religion and political life. As a symbol both of conquest and liberation, Guadalupe embodies the ambivalence and tension of a powerful image that historically fostered independence and yet simultaneously, as a symbol of colonial authority, endorsed the very political structure it was often deployed to overthrow"--
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Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long series in Latin American and Latino art and culture

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