Theater Of Conversion Book Review
1- Edgerton, S. Y., & Pérez de Lara, J. (2001). Theaters of Conversion: Religious Architecture and Indian Artisans in Colonial Mexico (1st Ed.). Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press.
The “Theatres of Conversion” is the collection of illustrations including maps, plans, drawings, and colored photographs to display a remarkable mixture of European and native architectural and artistic styles. In order to this, the author argues the cultural context for conversion as well as the religious architectural precedents such as, churches and conventos as unique establishments of sixteenth-century Mexico and seventeenth-century New Mexico which all built and decorated by native Indian artists who combined Renaissance European patterns with their …show more content…
Afterwards, the collection of profoundly resourceful essays provides both archaeological and historical overviews of the everyday life of slaved workers and built environment of slavery such as buildings, landscapes, cabins, yards, and garden plots. It also analyzes the building methods and techniques that African brought to the American South in order to produce and deploy the architecture and landscape of enslavement on plantation and farms.
3- Fraser, V. (1990). The Architecture of Conquest: Building in the Viceroyalty of Peru, 1535-1635. New York; Cambridge [England]: Cambridge University Press.
This provocative book seeks to study the philosophy and practice of the colonial architecture of the towns, cities, and churches in Latin America, referring specifically to the Viceroyalty of Peru between 1535 and 1635. It focuses on the significant identity and characteristics of the architectural projects as influential instrument to define the European traditions of art and architecture by the native context and native laborers and craftsman who were responsible for building the churches, towns and cities of the Spaniard. In addition, the consolidation and organization of laborers and their built environment have been shown in order to display the overlap between the spaces of natives and
The “Theatres of Conversion” is the collection of illustrations including maps, plans, drawings, and colored photographs to display a remarkable mixture of European and native architectural and artistic styles. In order to this, the author argues the cultural context for conversion as well as the religious architectural precedents such as, churches and conventos as unique establishments of sixteenth-century Mexico and seventeenth-century New Mexico which all built and decorated by native Indian artists who combined Renaissance European patterns with their …show more content…
Afterwards, the collection of profoundly resourceful essays provides both archaeological and historical overviews of the everyday life of slaved workers and built environment of slavery such as buildings, landscapes, cabins, yards, and garden plots. It also analyzes the building methods and techniques that African brought to the American South in order to produce and deploy the architecture and landscape of enslavement on plantation and farms.
3- Fraser, V. (1990). The Architecture of Conquest: Building in the Viceroyalty of Peru, 1535-1635. New York; Cambridge [England]: Cambridge University Press.
This provocative book seeks to study the philosophy and practice of the colonial architecture of the towns, cities, and churches in Latin America, referring specifically to the Viceroyalty of Peru between 1535 and 1635. It focuses on the significant identity and characteristics of the architectural projects as influential instrument to define the European traditions of art and architecture by the native context and native laborers and craftsman who were responsible for building the churches, towns and cities of the Spaniard. In addition, the consolidation and organization of laborers and their built environment have been shown in order to display the overlap between the spaces of natives and