Date of Award
Fall 12-22-2022
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
Art & Art History
First Advisor
Professor Klich
Second Advisor
Professor Montgomery
Academic Program Adviser
Professor Klich
Abstract
In Casta painting, Costumbrismo, and Mexican Modernism, artists rendered women and food together as a way of defining the region's culture and identity. The thesis demonstrates how due to the largely shifting socio-political environment over the course of the Colonial, Independence, and Postrevolutionary eras in Mexico, the motivations of artists changed and thus, so did how they represented women and food together. Changes from the colonial to the post-colonial structure, the artist being from Mexico versus Europe, and the gender of the artist, all affected the narratives of the nation presented in images of women with food.
Recommended Citation
Starn, Paris, "Picturing Women and Food in Casta Paintings, Costumbrismo, and the work of María Izquierdo" (2022). CUNY Academic Works.
https://academicworks.cuny.edu/hc_sas_etds/983