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100 1 $aSiracusano, Gabriela.
240 10 $aPoder de los colores.$lEnglish
245 10 $aPigments and power in the Andes :$bfrom the material to the symbolic in Andean cultural practices, 1500-1800 /$cGabriela Siracusano ; translated by Ian Barnett.
260 $aLondon :$bArchetype Publications Ltd,$c2011.
300 $axviii, 179 p., [32] p. of plates :$bill. (some col.) ;$c25 cm.
500 $aOriginally published as El poder de los colores : de lo material a lo simbólico en las prácticas culturales andinas : siglos XVI-XVIII. Buenos Aires : Fondo de Cultura Econónica de Argentina, 2005.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 165-179).
505 0 $aGrinding and mixing subtle elements: With artful brush and learned quill : colour and counsel in Spanish manuals ; Newly identified materials : matter as document ; The mixing of experience -- Mechanical and servile arts in Spain and Andean America : colour in the workshop: The production and organisation of mechanical learning ; Dyes, colours and urban spaces ; The defence of noble painting : a marvel of understanding ; The Andean painter's trade ; Engravings and brushes -- Saturn and Mercury in the workshop : hermetic and practical learning: Colours and Andean science : Álvaro Alonso Barba and Arte de los metales ; Chemistry, mineralogy and alchemy in the use of pigments : recipes for transmutation or colouring? ; Subterranean treasures : Potosí in the imaginary ; Secrets between Spain and Andean America : circulation and appropriation ; Coming back to the workshop -- Good medicines of all coloures : healing and painting in Andean America: Colours at the apothecary's shop ; They do consume malice, correct the humoures : chromatic pharmacopoeia in the ancient lands of the Inca ; Colours between bodies, souls and Andean sacralities ; The spectrum in practice and representations of power in the Andes ; Between the indeterminate and the perfect: the rainbow and healing by colours ; The power of healing images -- Representations, colours and powers of the sacred: Are these not guacas too, like to oure owne? : the problem of representation in the Andes ; The power of absence ; The visible and the invisible through the eyes of body and soul ; Sermons, images and colour : loci of memory ; Colours in the extirpation of idolatries : colour, substance or accident? ; Coloured powders as bearers of sacred power ; Preparing colours for the celestial workshop : disegno, simulacrum and colour ; Marshalling the powers of colour : mixtures most divine.
520 $a"This book is the result of a study of cultural practices related to the uses of colouring materials in the South American Andean region during the colonial period (sixteenth–eighteenth century) and their 'powerful' presence in the images of the conquest. It offers the reader a new insight into the techniques and use of colour in Andean colonial painting. A material history of colour in Andean workshops (the 'making'), leads the reader to the exchange of ideas between different parties such as painters, pharamacists, physicians, alchemists, etc. (the 'knowledge'), and then to the symbolic and powerful dimension of these coloured powders as found in the sacred and political messages projected by the images (the 'power'). Starting with an analysis of the images and the concept of representation during the process of evangelisation/domination, the author describes the discursive and iconographic strategies used by different parties to achieve several goals through the use of colour. The book's main hypothesis is that colors were silent protagonists of the Andean ritual system, a fact that was identified only by certain 'idol exterminators' who tried to 'rebrand' them by giving them a Christian meaning"--P. [4] of cover.
650 0 $aArt, Andean.
650 0 $aArt, Colonial$zAndes Region.
650 0 $aChristian art and symbolism$zAndes Region$yModern period, 1500-
650 0 $aColor in art.
650 0 $aColoring matter$xHistory.
650 0 $aArt$xPolitical aspects$zAndes Region.
700 1 $aBarnett, Ian,$etranslator.
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