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Misplaced Objects: Migrating Collections and Recollections in Europe and the Americas (Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture) - Hardcover
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"When things move, things change." Starting from this deceptively simple premise, Silvia Spitta opens a fascinating window onto the profound displacements and transformations that have occurred over the six centuries since material objects and human subjects began circulating between Europe and the Americas.
This extended reflection on the dynamics of misplacement starts with the European practice of collecting objects from the Americas into Wunderkammern, literally "cabinets of wonders." Stripped of all identifying contexts, these exuberant collections, including the famous Real Gabinete de Historia Natural de Madrid, upset European certainties, forcing a reorganization of knowledge that gave rise to scientific inquiry and to the epistemological shift we call modernity. In contrast, cults such as that of the Virgin of Guadalupe arose out of the reverse migration from Europe to the Americas. The ultimate marker of mestizo identity in Mexico, the Virgin of Guadalupe is now fast crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, and miracles are increasingly being reported. Misplaced Objects then concludes with the more intimate and familial collections and recollections of Cuban and Mexican American artists and writers that are contributing to the Latinization of the United States.
Beautifully illustrated and radically interdisciplinary, Misplaced Objects clearly demonstrates that it is not the awed viewer, but rather the misplaced object itself that unsettles our certainties, allowing new meanings to emerge.
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Silva Spitta is Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at Dartmouth College. She is the author of Between Two Waters: Narratives of Transculturation in Latin America.
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Misplaced Objects: Migrating Collections and Recollections in Europe and the Americas (Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture)
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Condition: MOLTO BUONO. University of Texas cm.21x31, pp.294, ill.a colori. legatura editoriale in tutta tela rossa, sopraccoperta figurata a colori. Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture. Teext in english. Quando le cose si muovono, le cose cambiano. Partendo da questa premessa apparentemente semplice, Silvia Spitta apre un'affascinante finestra sui profondi spostamenti e trasformazioni avvenuti nel corso dei sei secoli da quando oggetti materiali e soggetti umani hanno iniziato a circolare tra l'Europa e le Americhe. Questa riflessione estesa sulle dinamiche dello smarrimento prende avvio dalla pratica europea di collezionare oggetti provenienti dalle Americhe nelle Wunderkammern, letteralmente "gabinetti delle meraviglie". Spogliate di ogni contesto identificativo, queste esuberanti collezioni, tra cui il celebre Real Gabinete de Historia Natural de Madrid, sconvolsero le certezze europee, imponendo una riorganizzazione della conoscenza che diede origine all'indagine scientifica e al cambiamento epistemologico che chiamiamo modernità. Al contrario, culti come quello della Vergine di Guadalupe sono nati dalla migrazione inversa dall'Europa alle Americhe. L'ultimo indicatore dell'identità meticcia in Messico, la Vergine di Guadalupe sta ora attraversando rapidamente il confine tra Stati Uniti e Messico e vengono sempre più segnalati miracoli. Misplaced Objects si conclude poi con le collezioni e i ricordi più intimi e familiari di artisti e scrittori cubani e messicani americani che stanno contribuendo alla latinizzazione degli Stati Uniti. Splendidamente illustrato e radicalmente interdisciplinare, Misplaced Objects dimostra chiaramente che non è lo spettatore intimorito, ma piuttosto l'oggetto fuori posto stesso a sconvolgere le nostre certezze, permettendo a nuovi significati di emergere. Seller Inventory # 315378
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