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Figuras, mosaicos y queros … otras ‘artes de la pintura’ en los reinos

Russo, Alessandra

Considerable historical and critical enquiry in art during the twentieth century has been concerned with the search for a space of a specific relationship between pre-Hispanic artistic worlds and Western pictorial languages. These approaches range from the most pessimistic tendencies by which only a passive relationship could be perceived of the “vanquished,” forced to produce goods for the colonial world and to respect its expectations, or of a simple juxtaposition of figurative traditions, to reiterated attempts to define the formal, historical, and existential horizon of such diverse forms of production with new nomenclature as Tequitqui art, Indo-Christian art, Nepantlism, in between, or mestizo mind. This quest continues, fortunately, to be a lively field of debate.