New World Orders: Casta Painting & Colonial Latin America

Beautifully illustrated catalog for September 26 through December 22, 1996 exhibition.Bilingual catalog (Spanish and English) Essays by Ilona Katzew, Maria Concepcion Garcia Saiz, Elena Isable Estrad de Gerlero, and J. Jorge Klor de Alva. Bibliography. Casta (caste) paintings were produced in Latin America in the eighteenth century to depict the mixing of the major racial groups-- Indians, Spaniards, and Africans-- that inhabited Spain's colonies in the New World. The Americas Society exhibition, curated by Ilona Katzew, was the first on this subject to be organized by a cultural institution in the United States. 144p.