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Advancing New Frameworks of Research in the Art of the Spanish Americas: The Thoma Foundation’s Role in International Scholarship and Object Study

Session will present: In-Person

Now in its fifth year, the Marilynn Thoma Fellowships are the only unrestricted research funding in the United States devoted exclusively to the field of art of the Spanish Americas. Inspired by the Thoma Foundation’s collection of over 210 works of art from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries from South America and the Caribbean, these fellowships and awards promote original scholarship that significantly contributes to the understanding and future study of the Viceregal Art field.

In this session, three recipients of the Marilynn Thoma Postdoctoral Fellowships will share the research they conducted while being awardees, how their fellowship impacted their scholarship, and what is at stake for future publications and exhibitions in the field. Moderated by Aaron Hyman, the discussions will revolve around historiography, the construction of the Inka imaginary during the viceregal period, regional Andean art, and the production of new artworks in religious and secular contexts in the Spanish Americas during the Early Modern era. The participants of the session will discuss the state of the field of colonial art, new publications generated from these fellowships, and the importance of first-hand object study supported by the Thoma Foundation and other institutions in the US and Latin America. These conversations at this 2024 conference in Chicago, where the Thoma Foundation’s collection is housed, will contribute to CAA’s mission to advance innovative methodological and theoretical frameworks as well as hemispheric and international dialogues among scholars and artists.


Field(s) of Study:
Geographic Area: South America
Geographic Area: Latin America
Geographic Area: Central America
Time Period: Sixteenth Century
Time Period: Seventeenth Century


Chair:
Veronica Veronica Muñoz-Najar Luque, Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation

Discussant:
Aaron M. Hyman, Johns Hopkins University

Inka Borders and the Power of Volatility: at the Fringes and Edges of
Gabrielle Greenlee
Nauseating Things: Disgust, Morality, and Salvation in the Early Modern Hispanic World
Adam Michal Jasienski
The Diálogos Thoma: Re-Examining the Future of Art from the Past
Katherine M McAllen
Abstract Submissions Closed
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