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Beyond the Text: Franciscan Art and the Construction of Religion, 2013

Cultural Convergence in New Mexico: Interactions in Art, History & Archaeology // Honoring William Wroth, eds. Robin Gavin and Donna Pierce (Museum of New Mexico Press), 2021

A Companion to Viceregal Mexico City, 2021

Confraternities, rather than secretive and secluded, were part of the fabric that made up the ric... more Confraternities, rather than secretive and secluded, were part of the fabric that made up the rich tapestry of Baroque art, pageantry, and ritual in Mexico City. This chapter is devoted to the art and visual culture of these lay religious associations. I show that objects were not solely the focus of intense devotion, a veneration that was sometimes critical to salvation, but were also vehicles for the performance of a corporate identity. I consider a range of material—from membership engravings to major altar paintings and miraculous icons—and explore how corporate identity was both constructed with the aid of images and rehearsed by works of art. Keywords: Art History—General, Religious Life, Americas, 16th Century, Confraternities, Marian Icons
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Aesthetic Theology in the Franciscan Tradition, 2020

This book investigates the aesthetic theology embedded in the Franciscan artistic tradition. The ... more This book investigates the aesthetic theology embedded in the Franciscan artistic tradition. The novelty of the approach lies in applying concepts gleaned from Franciscan textual sources to create a deeper understanding of how art in all its sensual forms was foundational to the Franciscan milieu. Chapters range from studies of statements about aesthetics and the arts in theological textual sources to examples of visual, auditory, and tactile arts communicating theological ideas found in texts. The essays cover not only European art and textual sources, but also Franciscan influences in the Americas that are found in both texts and artifacts.

The Art Bulletin, 2018

Art history has approached female monastic culture in New Spain through the lens of crowned-nun p... more Art history has approached female monastic culture in New Spain through the lens of crowned-nun portraiture, a late colonial genre that reaffirmed a nun’s position as Bride of Christ. This has led to scholarly neglect of the image of a crucified abbess. Rather than a mystical bride, the crucified abbess was presented as an alter Christus. The exploration of an eighteenth-century Mexican portrait illuminates the history of the design and its significance during periods of monastic reform, the relation between pictorial mimesis and religious imitatio, and the anxiety produced by the visual demand for sensorial mortification.

RES: Anthropology and Aesthetics, 2014

RES: Anthropology and Aesthetics, vol. 65/66 (2014/2015).

This article interrogates the devotional histories and archival evidence related to Our Lady of A... more This article interrogates the devotional histories and archival evidence related to Our Lady of Angels in Tecaxic and Tlatelolco. Both Marian paintings survived lengthy periods of neglect and dilapidated shrines. Throughout the late colonial period, the Franciscan Order and church elites exploited the notions of "incorruptibility" and "ruined spaces" in their desire to regulate piety and rogue religiosity. (In)corruptibility delineated the divine and sanctioned official intervention. Yet official support never proved enough-both histories draw our attention to the politics of patronage and the complex task of renovation and instauration; they ultimately demonstrate the instability of sanctuary structures and the precarious nature of icon devotion.

Center for the Study of Material and Visual Cultures of Religion

Boletín: Journal of the California Mission Studies Association, vol. 25, no. 1 (2008): 5-34.

Reviews by Cristina González

Latin American & Latinx Visual Culture, 2020

Colonial Latin American Review, 2019

Colonial Latin American Review

Hispanic American Historical Review, vol. 95, no. 1 (Feb 2015): 144-5.

Material Religion, vol. 8, no. 1 (July 2012): 258-259

Papers by Cristina González

Beyond the Text: Franciscan Art and the Construction of Religion, 2013

Cultural Convergence in New Mexico: Interactions in Art, History & Archaeology // Honoring William Wroth, eds. Robin Gavin and Donna Pierce (Museum of New Mexico Press), 2021

A Companion to Viceregal Mexico City, 2021

Aesthetic Theology in the Franciscan Tradition, 2020

The Art Bulletin, 2018

RES: Anthropology and Aesthetics, 2014

RES: Anthropology and Aesthetics, vol. 65/66 (2014/2015).

Center for the Study of Material and Visual Cultures of Religion

Boletín: Journal of the California Mission Studies Association, vol. 25, no. 1 (2008): 5-34.

Latin American & Latinx Visual Culture, 2020

Colonial Latin American Review, 2019

Colonial Latin American Review

Hispanic American Historical Review, vol. 95, no. 1 (Feb 2015): 144-5.

Material Religion, vol. 8, no. 1 (July 2012): 258-259

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Colonial Latin American Review, Oct 2, 2019

century re-imaginings of Sor María in the final two chapters illustrates intriguing connections b... more century re-imaginings of Sor María in the final two chapters illustrates intriguing connections between past and present that today’s disciplinary boundaries risk marginalizing. As significant as the framework may be, however, it is still in need of fine-tuning. The author herself admits: ‘The many critical perspectives involved in the analysis of lore likewise cannot be broached in this one chapter’ (242). Indeed, many of the final chapters’ readings seem rushed or forced. For example, Nogar develops an intriguing interpretation of references to La mística ciudad de dios in a New Mexican alabado but only delves superficially into its relevance in New Mexican cofradías. Likewise, more detailed readings and contextualization could enrich Chapter 5’s discussion of Tejano historians’ approaches to the Lady in Blue. For all this, the reader’s sensation is that the final chapters ofQuill and Cross in the Borderlands are actually the beginning of a separate but related project that considers Sor María’s contemporary echoes. In conclusion, Quill and Cross in the Borderlands is a valuable contribution to the field. Postcolonial scholarship, book history and a nuanced understanding of the challenges that cloistered women writers faced inform a nuanced re-reading of links between Sor María de Ágreda’s writing and the Lady in Blue bilocation narrative. Nogar delves into intersections of folklore and history in order to underscore the nun’s centuries-long cultural impact in Spain, the Americas and beyond, and her broad temporal perspective allows readers to appreciate Sor María’s multifaceted persistence in southwestern and Mexican American culture.

Colonial Latin American Review, 2015

seeing. Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies 10 (1): 59–73. COPE, R. DOUGLAS. 1994. The limits of ... more seeing. Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies 10 (1): 59–73. COPE, R. DOUGLAS. 1994. The limits of racial domination. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. DEANS-SMITH, SUSAN. 2009. Dishonor in the hands of Indian, Spaniards, and Blacks: The (racial) politics of painting in early modern Mexico. In Race and classification: The case of Mexican America, eds. ILONA KATZEW AND SUSAN DEANS-SMITH, 43–72. Stanford: Stanford University Press. GRAUBART, KAREN. 2009. The creolization of the New World: Local forms of identification in urban colonial Peru, 1560–1640. Hispanic American Historical Review 89 (3): 471–99. . 2012. ‘So color de una cofradía’: Catholic confraternities and the development of AfroPeruvian ethnicities in early colonial Peru. Slavery & Abolition 33 (1): 43–64. KATZEW, ILONA. 2005. Casta painting: Images of race in eighteenth-century Mexico. New Haven: Yale University Press. MARTÍNEZ, MARÍA ELENA. 2008. Genealogical fictions: Limpieza de sangre, religion, and gender in colonial Mexico. Stanford: Stanford University Press. RAPPAPORT, JOANNE. 2011. ‘Asi lo paresçe por su aspeto’: Physiognomy and the construction of difference in colonial Bogotá. Hispanic American Historical Review 91 (4): 601–31. . 2014. The disappearing mestizo: Configuring difference in the colonial New Kingdom of Granada. Durham: Duke University Press. RESTALL, MATTHEW. 2009. The Black middle: Africans, Mayas, and Spaniards in colonial Yucatan. Stanford: Stanford University Press. TWINAM, ANN. 2015. Purchasing whiteness: Pardos, mulattos and the quest for social mobility in the Spanish Indies. Stanford: Stanford University Press.

35th CIHA World Congress – Motion: Migrations São Paulo, Brazil, 13th - 18th September 2020

6 – Missions as Contact Zones: Migrating Artists, Material Objects, and Aesthetic Practices in a ... more 6 – Missions as Contact Zones: Migrating Artists, Material Objects, and Aesthetic Practices in a Global World Chairs: Carmen Fernández-Salvador, Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Quito Cristina Cruz González, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater
Leticia Squeff, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo
Missions and missionaries played a key role in the migration of art objects, materials and technologies, and were also central to the circulation of formal conventions and styles between (and within) the Americas, Asia, Africa, and Europe. Because of this, missions are key in understanding colonial, imperial and global art history.
Missions are not just recipients of foreign visual traditions. In colonial Spanish America, for example, many of them were also important production and distribution centers, permitting the development of exchange networks that complicated center-periphery relations. Among the Guaraní, converts were skilled in the arts of painting, sculpture, and retable making, while in Chiloé, indigenous workshops also produced wooden retablos and sculptures for local churches. Missions were also highly innovative spaces, allowing for interpretation of artistic traditions from Europe and Asia, and experimentation with both local and imported materials and techniques. In Mainas, builders sought to reproduce the appearance of European churches, using palm trees and bricks painted with local pigments to mimic the color and texture of marble and jasper. Objects manufactured by indigenous artisans were also highly valued by collectors in major urban centers. Thus, featherwork ornaments manufactured in the missions of the Brazilian Amazon decorated churches in Belem and Para.
Great attention has been given to Christian missionary art in different parts of the world. However, Islamic missions in Africa and in Asia were also responsible for the dissemination of architectural forms and of calligraphy across a vast geographic space. Likewise, in present times, art continues to play a significant role in missionary work, demonstrating its adaptability to local conditions. This is the case of the recent portraits of Christ employed by members of the Church of the Latter Day Saints, which have been transformed to suit the concerns of believers in Latin America and in Africa.
Thinking about the mission as a contact zone, this session is particularly interested in the mission as a spiritual, architectural, and geographical space that allowed for complex artistic relationships. We are interested in the spread of diverse artistic traditions in a missionary context, but also on interpretations and adaptations of imported aesthetic practices as well as on local artistic production.Proposals that offer compelling case studies or emphasize unexplored geographies and circuits of exchange are encouraged, as are papers that theorize the study of art-and-mission and engage with the historiography and recent scholarship on the subject.

Synopsis: The movement of missionaries in the Early Modern world played a key role in the circula... more Synopsis: The movement of missionaries in the Early Modern world played a key role in the circulation of art objects between (and within) the Americas, Asia, Africa, and Europe. While this session welcomes papers that document the spread of European art within a missionary context, we are also interested in the mission as a spiritual, architectural, and geographical space that allowed for the local interpretation, importation, and production of objects. Missions themselves sometimes became distribution centers in a global world. How did the interaction between European and non-European populations give rise to complex artistic relationships within the mission enterprise, and how can we understand missionary art and architecture both within a colonial and global history of art? Proposals that offer compelling case studies or emphasize unexplored geographies and circuits of exchange are encouraged, as are papers that theorize the study of art-and-mission and engage with the historiography and recent scholarship on the subject. While we especially welcome work on the Spanish and

Art history has approached female monastic culture in New Spain through the lens of crowned-nun p... more Art history has approached female monastic culture in New Spain through the lens of crowned-nun portraiture, a late colonial genre that reaffirmed a nun's position as a mystical Bride of Christ. This has led to scholarly neglect of female imitatio Christi and the ecclesiastical pretense exhibited by several early modern holy women in Spain and Spanish America. Using examples from Spain, Mexico, and Guatemala, this talk explores the various pictorial strategies for capturing and performing an alter Christus status in a transatlantic Spanish world. While I discuss the images from the standpoint of their theological origin and socio-political relevance (they surface during periods of female monastic reform), I also consider their optical demands and how they enlighten our understanding of a mimesis-imitatio correlation.

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Gilcrease Museum, November 1, 2019

Women and the Book Symposium, Johns Hopkins University, September 5-7, 2019

Lima, Peru, July 18-19, 2019

Devotional Icons, Rubens in New Spain, Prints and Iteration/Transformation, Our Lady of El Puebli... more Devotional Icons, Rubens in New Spain, Prints and Iteration/Transformation, Our Lady of El Pueblito, Our Lady of Tepepan

This workshop will explore the place of art and material culture in the accrual, performance, and... more This workshop will explore the place of art and material culture in the accrual, performance, and deployment of female power in the Late Medieval and early modern Iberian world. We seek to problematize the binary gendered definition of auctoritas (as applied to sacramental and liturgical leadership) emerging from the reforms of the High Middle Ages by considering the value of art, matter, and liturgical performance in the formation and expression of religious authority. We will analyse female agency in the making of objects (images, vestments, manuscripts, relics, furniture and other liturgical ornaments), the gifting of such material to a religious community, and the display or use of object and image in diverse religious performance. Thus, it will fit with two of the conference themes: "Performing Power" and "Performing Art".

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