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Paper Proposal
Essay Instructions:
This short proposal (~500 words) should identify the object or group of objects you would like to work with this semester and outline the direction of your research. You will view this object (or objects) in person at a museum or archive, like the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Cooper Hewitt, the Museum of Art and Design, Bard Graduate Center, etc. New York City is abundant in resources, and part of this project is to encourage you to take advantage of and explore what this city has to offer. To extend the example from earlier, if you are interested in European tapestries, you might visit the Unicorn Tapestries at the Met Cloisters, for example.
In the proposal, give a brief description on what you plan to research. Will you be focusing on a technique, pattern sources, or economic and political history? Perhaps you are interested in how this type of object came to be collected, used, or displayed at a later point? Support your proposal with an annotated bibliography (can be our class readings) and thoughts on where you will look for these objects.
Please include the following information:
A picture of the object or group of objects that will be the focus of your study (include “tombstone” information: title, date, materials, collection, and accession number).
A short description of your approach and questions.
An annotated bibliography of 3 – 5 works.
A list of 2 or 3 collections and resources you intend to look into.
Artwork from The Met Museum, New York, Mexico Prints Part . Data can be found
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‘Tombstone’ Information
The object is a Thesis Proclamation of José Vicente Maldonado y Trespalacios, dedicated to the Virgin of Guadalupe. It is dated back to 1756. It is made up of woodcut, letterpress and engraving printed on white silk with a decorative metallic thread border backed with a panel of red silk (THE MET, 1756). It is attributed to the Elisha Whittlesey Collection, and the accession number is 46.46.559 (THE MET, 1756). The proposal serves a compelling artifact to investigate and explore how art, religion, and colonial identity in New Spain intersect.
The research will examine the use of devotional prints in shaping religious practice and cultural identity in colonial Mexico during the eighteenth century. In this respect, this engraving of the Virgin of Guadalupe will provide insights into the involved art, iconographic elements, and the cultural role of such prints. The proposal will examine how the artwork promoted the dissemination of the Guadalupe cult, through its mixture of indigenous and European artistic traditions into a unique visual language of devotion.
Various questions will be addressed: How did this print function as a tool for religious and political messaging in colonial Mexico? What can it reveal about the production and circulation of devotional imagery in New Spain? How does this engraving point to larger cultural and social dynamics within 18th-century colonial society? Through the investigation, a better understanding of the complex interplay...
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