Espejos Distantes: Los Rostros Mexicanos Del Siglo XVIII
Presented out of commerce by Bital Grupo Financiero, 2001. Hardcover. 304 pp. Black cloth with titles blind stamped to spine and front. Abundant color plates. Text in Spanish.
VG. Clean, square, and firm. Bright pages free of markings. Light flecks to rear board black cloth. Ridge line pressed to rear board, unclear if from publisher. Crisp dust jacket.
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The caste painting, in addition to being works of art of high quality, represents the first and most detailed document of Mexicanness. With these pictorial compositions, we see captured the human gesture that par excellence defines us in which Mexico and Spain merge, to carry out the most important and original contribution of the modern era: miscegenation.
One more manifestation of the ideas of the Enlightenment, caste painting gave an account of the inventory and human composition of the Spanish Empire, as were the scientific expeditions of the same time. These initiatives of the crown are part of a new reading of the functioning of the empire, with a view to carrying out government policies inspired by rationalism and that would support the Bourbon Reforms whose application, to a large extent, would determine the future of the colonies. . '
