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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 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.
ECORFAN Journal-Republic of Peru, 2018
The Collaboration Networks Have Demonstrated Their effectiveness in the investigative field of IES, Constituting an essential mechanism to That Guarantees Their training and integrators to greater productivity. The Network "Art, Music and Culture" created in 2012 an ambitious project called "Interdisciplinary Circuit of North-Central Mexico and the Caribbean Art", from Which, as a result of the interactions of the different components of the Network Were organized in the Forums / International Arts Festivals. Initially Proposed on experimental a character, They Have Been consolidated in Their organization and Their contents, at the same time That They Have Become one of the most solid and stable programs of the cultural landscape, not only of the UAZ, but of the State of Zacatecas. From the current perspective, which Allows. Las redes de colaboración han demostrado su efectividad en el campo de investigación de IES, lo que constituye un mecanismo esencial para garantizar su capacitación e integradores para una mayor productividad. La Red "Arte, Música y Cultura" creó en 2012 un ambicioso proyecto denominado "Circuito Interdisciplinario del Norte-Centro de México y el Arte del Caribe", a partir del cual, como resultado de las interacciones de los diferentes componentes de la Red, se organizaron en el Foros / Festivales internacionales de arte. Inicialmente propuestos en un personaje experimental, se han consolidado en su organización y sus contenidos, al mismo tiempo que se han convertido en uno de los programas más sólidos y estables del paisaje cultural, no solo de la UAZ, sino del estado de Zacatecas. Desde la perspectiva actual, lo que permite.