![]() In the second essay of William Gilpin’s seminal book on the picturesque, he states the purposes of the picturesque in traveling: “We mean not to bring it into competition with any of the more useful ends of travelling. See Daniela Bleichmar, Visual Voyages: Images of Latin American Nature from Columbus to Darwin (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2017) Dawn Ades et al., Art in Latin America: The Modern Era, 1820–1980 (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1989) and John Mraz, Looking for Mexico: Modern Visual Culture and National Identity (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2009), xix–xx.Ĩ. Casid, Sowing Empire: Landscape and Colonization (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2005), 8.ħ. Claudio Lomnitz, Deep Mexico, Silent Mexico: An Anthropology of Nationalism (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2001), 52.Ħ. Widdifield, The Embodiment of the National in Late Nineteenth-Century Mexican Painting (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1996) Ray Hernández-Durán, The Academy of San Carlos and Mexican Art History: Politics, History, and Art in Nineteenth-Century Mexico (London: Routledge, 2017) and Esther Acevedo, Hacia otra historia del arte en México (Mexico City: Conaculta, 2001).ĥ. ![]() ![]() Widdifield, Buen Gusto and Classicism in the Visual Cultures of Latin America, 1780–1910 (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2013).Ĥ. For more information on the history of taste in late colonial New Spain and in early Mexican art history, see Paul B. Ibid., 6: “El sentido de la belleza ha sido dado a pocos pueblos en la tierra.”ģ. The original text reads: “Así todo el mundo se acostumbra a ver y a trazar malas figuras, y el arte, o no llega a nacer, o bastardea luego.”Ģ. José Bernardo Couto, Diálogo sobre la historia de la pintura en México (Alicante, Spain: Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes, 2004), 7. Unless otherwise indicated, translations are mine.ġ. I am forever indebted to the knowledge and scholarship of Kirsten Pai Buick, Francisco Guevara, and Emmanuel Ramos-Barajas, who stimulated me to ideate the nuances of the contributions I am here presenting.
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