Acknowledgments 9 Introduction 13 CHAPTER ONE: Creating the Cult of St. Joseph 21 CHAPTER TWO: Love and Marriage 41 CHAPTER THREE: Happy Families 59 CHAPTER FOUR: Mothering Fathers 89 CHAPTER FIVE: Men at Work 117 CHAPTER SIX: The Good Death 135 CHAPTER SEVEN: Epilogue 157 Notes 159 Bibliography 223 Index 249 Photography Credits 260
The cult of St. Joseph--by far the most important in Spanish-speaking countries in the early modern period--has never been comprehensively examined. Villasenor Black addresses it thematically, taking a welcome inclusive approach to the art of Spain and the colonies. It is to the author's immense credit that she undertook a study so ambitious in scope and interprets two bodies of data with equal sensitivity. Giving insight into how the art functioned within the society for which it was produced, she makes an important contribution to a field of study previously characterized by extreme conservatism. -- Mindy Nancarrow, University of Alabama A very valuable contribution to art history, comparative cultural studies, and gender studies, this book is particularly significant in presenting new conceptions about Catholic art, the construction of gender, and the politics of art. While presenting data that has not been available to an English-reading audience, the author turns old sex stereotypes on their heads. The book is based on solid scholarship, but it will appeal to a more general readership interested in art, religion, gender, or the development of a 'Hispanic world.' -- Mary Elizabeth Perry, author of "Gender and Disorder in Early Modern Seville"
Charlene Villasenor Black is Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of California, Los Angeles.
"In detail and with an abundance of sources, both graphic and literary, this book follows the major stages of growth in Josephine piety... This book shows the need to study religious art not only on its own aesthetic terms but also as a key participant in and articulator of great (often too great) social, cultural, and religious themes in a given time and place."--Reverend Alvaro Silva, Religion and the Arts "Among this book's strengths are its engaging prose, impressive corpus of visual images, and emphasis on the connection between St. Joseph's cult and societal and religious ideals in the early modern Hispanic world... This book offers fresh insight into the dissemination and popularity of the cult of St. Joseph in early modern Spain and colonial Mexico."--Joseph F. Chorpenning, Sixteenth Century Journal "Creating the Cult of Saint Joseph is a refreshing and stimulating contribution to the fields of Spanish and Latin American art history and cultural studies. Villase?or's combination of colonial and gender theories with art-historical analysis is sure to yield interesting results in future studies of religious art in the Spanish Empire. Her bibliography is an impressive collection of archival material, primary religious texts, and wide-ranging secondary sources; it promises to become an indispensable research tool for students of the period."--Marta Bustillo, CAA Reviews
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