The Invention of a Medieval Present: Visual Stagings in Colonial Bolivia and Brazil

Authors

  • Astrid Windus
  • Jens Baumgarten

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18441/ind.v30i0.51-76

Keywords:

Colonial Art History, Time Concepts, Franciscans, Bolivia, Brazil, 17th -18th Centuries

Abstract

The text analyzes in a comparative approach different time concepts in parts of colonial Latin America (today Brazil and Bolivia) and their functions in visual stagings and displays in religious art. It contributes to the important ongoing discussion of functions and structures of different representational systems. It explores possible reasons for the adaptation of European medieval traditions, and the inscription of certain kinds of periodization in the material and semantic productions of these colonial contact zones. In the Bolivian as well as in the Brazilian case, medieval anachronisms served as modes for making cultural differences intelligible and comprehensible for all historical actors.

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Published

2013-01-01

Issue

Vol. 30 (2013)

Section

Dossier

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