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What is Casta painting : images of race in eighteenth-century Mexico about?
The pictorial genre known as casta painting is one of the most compelling forms of artistic expression from colonial Mexico. Created as sets of consecutive images, the works portray racial mixing among the main groups that inhabited the colony: Indians, Spaniards, and Africans. In this beautifully illustrated book, Ilona Katzew places casta paintings in their social and historical context, showing for the first time the ways in which the meanings of the paintings changed along with shifting colo
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- Author
- Katzew, Ilona
- Publisher
- New Haven: Yale University Press
- Published
- 2005
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780300109719
- Category
- art
- Subjects
- Art, Design, History
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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