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Book Launch: Clothing the New World Church: Liturgical Textiles of Spanish America, 1520–1820 by Maya Stanfield-Mazzi
March 11, 2021 @ 6:00 pm
University of Florida’s College of the Arts’ YouTube channel. Sponsored by UF’s University Galleries.
Link to book: https://undpress.nd.edu/9780268108052/clothing-the-new-world-church/
The book provides the first broad survey of church textiles of Spanish America and demonstrates that, while overlooked, textiles were a vital part of visual culture in the Catholic Church.
Presentation by author Maya Stanfield-Mazzi, Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Florida. She is also the author of Object and Apparition: Envisioning the Christian Divine in the Colonial Andes (University of Arizona Press, 2013).
Discussion with Rosario I. Granados, the Marilynn Thoma Associate Curator of Art of the Spanish Americas at the Blanton Museum of Art, the University of Texas at Austin. Her exhibition Painted Cloth: Ritual and Fashion in Colonial Latin America will open in late summer of 2022 at the Blanton.
This event is free and open to the public. For more information contact Prof. Maya Stanfield-Mazzi.
*Prof. Maya Stanfield-Mazzi received a Publication Subvention Award from the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere in support of this book.