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Three hundred years ago San Antonio was founded as a strategic outpost of presidios and missions on the edge of northern New Spain, imposing Spanish political and religious principles on this contested, often hostile region. The city’s many Catholic missions bear architectural witness to the time of their founding, but few have walked these sites without wondering who once lived there and what they saw, valued, and thought.
San Antonio 1718 presents a wealth of art that depicts a rich blending of sometimes conflicted cultures -- explorers, colonialists, and indigenous Native Americans -- and places the city’s founding in context. The book is organized into three sections, accompanied by five discussions by internationally recognized scholars with expertise in key aspects of eighteenth-century northern New Spain. The first section, “People and Places,” features art depicting the lives of ordinary people. Such art is rare since most painting and sculpture from this period was made in service to the church, the crown, or wealthy families. They provide compelling insight into how those living in the Spanish Colonies viewed gender, social organization, ethnicity, occupation, dress, home and workplace furnishings, and architecture. Since portraiture was the most popular genre of eighteenth-century and early nineteenth-century Mexican painting, the second section, “Cycle of Life,” includes a selection of individual and family portraits representing people during different stages of life. The third and largest section is devoted to the church.
Throughout the colonial period, Catholic evangelization of New Spain went hand in hand with military, economic, and political expansion. All the major religious orders—the Franciscans, the Dominicans, the Jesuits, and the Augustinians—played significant roles in proselytizing indigenous populations of northern New Spain, establishing monasteries and convents to support these efforts.
In San Antonio 1718, more than 100 portraits, landscapes, religious paintings, and devotional and secular objects reveal the visual culture that reflected and supported this region’s evolving world view, signaling how New Spain saw itself, its vast colonial and religious ambitions, in an age prior to the emergence of an independent Mexico and, subsequently, the state of Texas.
San Antonio 1718 presents a wealth of art that depicts a rich blending of sometimes conflicted cultures -- explorers, colonialists, and indigenous Native Americans -- and places the city’s founding in context. The book is organized into three sections, accompanied by five discussions by internationally recognized scholars with expertise in key aspects of eighteenth-century northern New Spain. The first section, “People and Places,” features art depicting the lives of ordinary people. Such art is rare since most painting and sculpture from this period was made in service to the church, the crown, or wealthy families. They provide compelling insight into how those living in the Spanish Colonies viewed gender, social organization, ethnicity, occupation, dress, home and workplace furnishings, and architecture. Since portraiture was the most popular genre of eighteenth-century and early nineteenth-century Mexican painting, the second section, “Cycle of Life,” includes a selection of individual and family portraits representing people during different stages of life. The third and largest section is devoted to the church.
Throughout the colonial period, Catholic evangelization of New Spain went hand in hand with military, economic, and political expansion. All the major religious orders—the Franciscans, the Dominicans, the Jesuits, and the Augustinians—played significant roles in proselytizing indigenous populations of northern New Spain, establishing monasteries and convents to support these efforts.
In San Antonio 1718, more than 100 portraits, landscapes, religious paintings, and devotional and secular objects reveal the visual culture that reflected and supported this region’s evolving world view, signaling how New Spain saw itself, its vast colonial and religious ambitions, in an age prior to the emergence of an independent Mexico and, subsequently, the state of Texas.
Price: $32.50
Pages: 288
Publisher: Trinity University Press
Imprint: Maverick Books
Publication Date:
01 February 2018
Trim Size: 8.00 X 11.50 in
ISBN: 9781595348340
Format: Hardcover
BISACs:
ART / Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General, ART / American / General, ART / American / Hispanic American, ART / Subjects & Themes / Religious, ART / History / Baroque & Rococo
Marion Oettinger Jr. was the curator of Latin American Art and the former Kelso Director of the San Antonio Museum of Art. A cultural anthropologist and art historian specializing in Latin American art and culture, he has lectured throughout the United States, Europe, and Latin America. He has taught at Cornell University, Occidental College, and the University of North Carolina and is the recipient of Fulbright Hays, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Endowment for the Arts, National Geographic Society, and American Philosophical Society grants and the 2010 Van Deren Coke Lifetime Achievement Award in Spanish Colonial Art and Folk Art. Oettinger’s recent books are Retratos: 2000 Years of Latin American Portraits and Pasiόn Popular: Spanish and Latin American Folk Art from the Cecere Collection. He was project director of the San Antonio 1718 exhibition.
Cristina Cruz González is an associate professor of art history at Oklahoma State University. She holds a bachelor’s degree in anthropology from Yale University, a master’s degree in art history from the University of Texas at Austin, and a doctorate from the University of Chicago. She is a recipient of a MacArthur Foundation Museum Fellowship, a Getty Research Fellowship, a Newberry Consortium Faculty Fellowship, and other awards, and she was a visiting researcher at the Institute of Aesthetics at the National Autonomous University of Mexico in 2014. González has published articles on Franciscan art and other subjects and has a forthcoming book on the Franciscan art of northern New Spain.
Jaime Cuadriello is an art historian at the Institute of Aesthetics at the Autonomous University of Mexico. He has lectured widely in the United States, Europe, and Latin America. His recent books are Art and Belief in the Spanish World and The Glories of the Republic of Tlaxcala: Art and Life in Viceregal Mexico.
Ray Hernández-Durán is an associate professor of Ibero-American colonial art and architecture at the University of New Mexico. He holds a master’s degree from the University of Wisconsin and a doctorate in art history from the University of Chicago, and he is the recipient of two Fulbright Hayes Fellowships and a MacArthur Fellowship. He is the author of numerous articles on the art of colonial and nineteenth-century Mexico and The Academy of San Carlos and Mexican Art History: Politics, History, and Art in Nineteenth-Century Mexico and A Historiography of Colonial Art in Mexico, ca. 1855–1934.
Gerald E. Poyo is the O’Connor Chair in the History of Hispanic Texas and the Southwest at St. Mary’s University in San Antonio. From 1992 to 1996 he was the O’Connor Chair in the Study of Spanish Colonial Texas and the Southwest. He received his doctorate from the University of Florida. His recent books are Cuban Catholics in the United States, 1960–1980 and Exile and Revolution.
Katherine C. Luber was the the Kelso Director of the San Antonio Museum of Art from 2011-2019. She has worked at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the University of Texas, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Between 2005 and 2011, she served as president and CEO of the Seasoned Palate. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Yale University, a master’s degree from the University of Texas at Austin, a doctorate from Bryn Mawr College, and an M.B.A. from Johns Hopkins University. She has received numerous grants and fellowships, including a 1988 Fulbright Hayes Fellowship in Vienna, Austria. Luber has published and lectured widely on art of the Northern Renaissance.
Cristina Cruz González is an associate professor of art history at Oklahoma State University. She holds a bachelor’s degree in anthropology from Yale University, a master’s degree in art history from the University of Texas at Austin, and a doctorate from the University of Chicago. She is a recipient of a MacArthur Foundation Museum Fellowship, a Getty Research Fellowship, a Newberry Consortium Faculty Fellowship, and other awards, and she was a visiting researcher at the Institute of Aesthetics at the National Autonomous University of Mexico in 2014. González has published articles on Franciscan art and other subjects and has a forthcoming book on the Franciscan art of northern New Spain.
Jaime Cuadriello is an art historian at the Institute of Aesthetics at the Autonomous University of Mexico. He has lectured widely in the United States, Europe, and Latin America. His recent books are Art and Belief in the Spanish World and The Glories of the Republic of Tlaxcala: Art and Life in Viceregal Mexico.
Ray Hernández-Durán is an associate professor of Ibero-American colonial art and architecture at the University of New Mexico. He holds a master’s degree from the University of Wisconsin and a doctorate in art history from the University of Chicago, and he is the recipient of two Fulbright Hayes Fellowships and a MacArthur Fellowship. He is the author of numerous articles on the art of colonial and nineteenth-century Mexico and The Academy of San Carlos and Mexican Art History: Politics, History, and Art in Nineteenth-Century Mexico and A Historiography of Colonial Art in Mexico, ca. 1855–1934.
Gerald E. Poyo is the O’Connor Chair in the History of Hispanic Texas and the Southwest at St. Mary’s University in San Antonio. From 1992 to 1996 he was the O’Connor Chair in the Study of Spanish Colonial Texas and the Southwest. He received his doctorate from the University of Florida. His recent books are Cuban Catholics in the United States, 1960–1980 and Exile and Revolution.
Katherine C. Luber was the the Kelso Director of the San Antonio Museum of Art from 2011-2019. She has worked at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the University of Texas, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Between 2005 and 2011, she served as president and CEO of the Seasoned Palate. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Yale University, a master’s degree from the University of Texas at Austin, a doctorate from Bryn Mawr College, and an M.B.A. from Johns Hopkins University. She has received numerous grants and fellowships, including a 1988 Fulbright Hayes Fellowship in Vienna, Austria. Luber has published and lectured widely on art of the Northern Renaissance.
Foreword, by Katherine C. Luber
Foreword, by María Cristina García Cepeda
Preface, by Diego Prieto
Preface, by Lidia Camacho Camacho
Introduction by Marion Oettinger Jr.
ESSAYS
ONE - Time and Space on the Missionary Frontier: Cultural Dynamics and the Defense of Northern New Spain by Katherine McAllen
TWO - At Empire’s Edge: Spanish Colonial San Antonio (1718–1821) by Gerald E. Poyo
THREE - Politics, Society, and Art in the Age of Bourbon Reform: Placing the Portrait in Eighteenth-Century New Spain by Ray Hernández-Durán
FOUR - In the Footsteps of Sor María de Jesús and Fray Margil de Jesús: A Guadalupan Atlas by Jaime Cuadriello
FIVE - A Second Golden Age: The Franciscan Mission in Late Colonial Mexico by Cristina Cruz González
Essay Notes
CATALOGUE
People and Places
Cycle of Life
The Church
Catalogue Notes
Foreword, by María Cristina García Cepeda
Preface, by Diego Prieto
Preface, by Lidia Camacho Camacho
Introduction by Marion Oettinger Jr.
ESSAYS
ONE - Time and Space on the Missionary Frontier: Cultural Dynamics and the Defense of Northern New Spain by Katherine McAllen
TWO - At Empire’s Edge: Spanish Colonial San Antonio (1718–1821) by Gerald E. Poyo
THREE - Politics, Society, and Art in the Age of Bourbon Reform: Placing the Portrait in Eighteenth-Century New Spain by Ray Hernández-Durán
FOUR - In the Footsteps of Sor María de Jesús and Fray Margil de Jesús: A Guadalupan Atlas by Jaime Cuadriello
FIVE - A Second Golden Age: The Franciscan Mission in Late Colonial Mexico by Cristina Cruz González
Essay Notes
CATALOGUE
People and Places
Cycle of Life
The Church
Catalogue Notes