October 10, 2019 / 6:00 pm / University of Florida, Smathers 100, Keynote Lecture by Dr. Susan V. Webster
October 11, 2019 / 9:30 am – 5:00 pm / University of Florida, Harn Museum of Art, Additional Speakers
What was the nature of artistic work in colonial Latin America? This symposium gathers leading scholars to think about artistic subjectivity without focusing on names or “life’s work.” We will consider artistic personhood and practice within social structures, in relation to medium, and as determined by gender, age, and race. We strive for a greater understanding of colonial Latin American art itself, as well as of the human agency that brought it into being.
A Claim for Craft in the Development of Artists’ Rights
Maya Stanfield-Mazzi, Associate Professor of Art History, University of Florida
The Artist-Cartographers of the Uppsala Map of Mexico-Tenochtitlan (c. 1540)
Jennifer Saracino, Assistant Professor of Art History, Flagler College
Angelina Martina: A Tlatelolca Merchant or a Feather Artisan?
Margarita Vargas-Betancourt, Latin American and Caribbean Special Collections Librarian, University of Florida
The Power of Expertise: Artists as Arbiters of the Miraculous in Colonial Latin America
Derek Burdette, Assistant Professor of Art History, University of Florida
Academic Ambitions in New Spain
Aaron M. Hyman, Assistant Professor of Art History, Johns Hopkins University
The Face of the Virgin and the Hand of the Artist: Thinking about Anonymity in Colonial South America
Emily Floyd, Lecturer in History of Art, University College London
Art-Making and Art-Breaking in the Era of Tupac Amaru
Ananda Cohen-Aponte, Associate Professor of Art History, Cornell University