Date of Award
Fall 12-21-2015
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
Art
First Advisor
Tara Zanardi
Second Advisor
Lynda Klich
Academic Program Adviser
Nebahat Avcıoğlu
Abstract
This thesis examines the ways in which Potosí's two most influential colonial artists represented the urban dynamics of race, class and labor in their depictions of the Andean 'City of Silver' during the eighteenth century, when silver production, profits and population were dramatically declining.
Recommended Citation
Ficek, Agnieszka A., "Performing Conquest and Resistance in the Streets of Eighteenth Century Potosí: Identity and Artifice in the Cityscapes of Gaspar Miguel de Berrío and Melchor Pérez de Holguín" (2015). CUNY Academic Works.
https://academicworks.cuny.edu/hc_sas_etds/32
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