Russo

The Untranslatable Image

A Mestizo History of the Arts in New Spain, 1500–1600

ALESSANDRA RUSSO

“Learned, insightful, and challenging, The Untranslatable Image has much to offer not only to Latin American colonial studies but also to the fields of Iberian, Renaissance, and early modern art, culture, and history, as well as to those who are more broadly intrigued by untranslatable images and words, culture contact, and global encounters.” —caa .reviews

“A work whose signal achievement is to show how an art history of the New World can free itself from limiting metaphors, like ‘syncretic,’ and categorically based methodologies, such as the dutiful parsing of an artwork’s ‘indigenous’ or ‘European’ elements. Russo’s work, in opening pathways of interpretation into cultural agents during a period of dramatic cultural change, offers a model to fields beyond art history.”—the americas

Alessandra Russo is a professor of Latin American and Iberian Cultures at Columbia University. release date | january 6 x 9 inches, 376 pages ISBN 978-0-292-75414-0

$45 .00* | £36 .00 | C$55 .95

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