"The catalogue highlights Latin American masterpieces, including paintings, sculptures and decorative arts, made shortly after the conquest and before the independence movements. Arranged regionally, the essays explore how artists found freedom despite colonial authority. While pleasing clients, many artists of Indigenous and African descent also reclaimed and reshape the arts for themselves and their new colonial realities. Epilogue essays will consider...

Allows children to interact with and develop a greater understanding of Latin American art through colorful reproductions, brief biographies and criticism of the artists and questions that facilitate conversation.

Exquisitely illustrated with new photography, this stunning book represents the first comprehensive study of LACMA's notable holdings of Spanish American art. Following the arrival of the Spaniards in the Americas in the 15th century, the region developed complex artistic traditions that drew simultaneously on Indigenous, European, Asian and African art. In 1565 the Spaniards conquered the Philippines, inaugurating a new commercial route that connected...