Casta Painting: Images of Race in Eighteenth-Century Mexico by Ilona Katzew

Casta Painting: Images of Race in Eighteenth-Century Mexico

Ilona Katzew

252 pages first pub 2004 (editions)

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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: In...

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