ILONA KATZEW is Curator and Head of the Department of Latin American Art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Selected by the New York Times as one of the best
art books of 2017
Winner of the Association of Art Museum Curators' 2018 Award for
Excellence
“The exhibition is exciting because we are literally witnessing the
invention of an entire art history. There has never been a
comprehensive show of 18th century New Spanish art... The show, a
herculean effort that took six years to pull off, is a first….The
catalog is a brick — 512 profusely illustrated pages with often
superlatives texts — a book destined to become a standard
reference." -Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times
"Along with superlative essays on the force of religion, the
authority of portraiture, the use of ornament and the
circulation of paintings between Mexico and Spain, the book details
more than 130 masterpieces from an age of opulence."—Jason
Farago, The New York Times
“The catalogue is a landmark of scholarship. . . .The curators’
educated eyes are in evidence throughout the publication, and we
the readers are given the benefit of decades of close and personal
observation”—Anna O. Marley, Panorama: Journal the Association
of Historians of American Art
"With Painted in Mexico,
1700-1790: Pinxit Mexici we finally have a
wide-ranging, deeply researched appraisal of the eighteenth-century
painters and their paintings. . . . This big, important book will
be our guide to eighteenth-century painting and a touchstone for
thinking about late colonial culture and politics for years to
come"—William B. Taylor, Colonial Latin
American Review
"The exhibition is a broad survey of a many kinds of 18th-century
Mexican painting, including religious narratives, altarpieces,
portraits, casta painting and more…The remarkable
exhibition catalogue was published by DelMonico Prestel."
—Tyler Green, The Modern Art Notes Podcast
"The exhibition on which this catalogue is based. . . was the
largest show on viceregal Latin American painting in the history of
the United States. . . . . [It] includes five excellent thematic
essays that contextualize the paintings historically and socially"
—Gauvin Alexander Bailey, The Burlington Magazine
"The works brought together in this exhibit and catalog. . .will
without doubt (re)define the canon of eighteenth-century New
Spanish painting for decades to come . . . . Painted in
Mexico will. . . reverberate as an imposing announcement of a
certain kind of arrival for the field—Aaron Hyman, Colonial
Latin American Review
“Immaculately written and lavishly illustrated, [the book] is a
fitting representation of decades of curatorial and scholarly
efforts on the part of its authors, and the beauty, historical
worth, and current relevance of this area of study”—Kelly
Donahue-Wallace, Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture
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