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The provocative three-part project Black Mirror/Espejo Negro by the artist Pedro Lasch encompasses a museum installation, photographs of the installation, and this bilingual book, including many of the photos, the artist's statement, and critical commentaries. The project began as an installation commissioned by the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University to accompany the exhibition El Greco to Velazquez: Art during the Reign of Philip III. In a gallery adjacent to the exhibit of Spanish Golden Age masterpieces, Lasch placed black rectangular mirrors on the walls, each with an image of a Spanish Renaissance painting behind it. Pre-Columbian stone and ceramic figures, chosen by Lasch from the museum's permanent collection of Meso-American art, stood on pedestals facing toward each mirror and away from visitors entering the room. Viewers were drawn into a meditation on colonialism and spectatorship when, on looking into the black mirrors, they saw the pre-Columbian figures, seventeenth and eighteenth-century Spanish priests and conquistadores, themselves, and the contemporary gallery environment. The book Black Mirror/Espejo Negro includes full-color reproductions of thirty-nine photographs of the installation, as well as the text that Lasch wrote to accompany it. In short essays, scholars reflect on Lasch's work in relation to current debates in art history and visual studies, race discourse, pre-Columbian studies, postcolonial theory, and de-colonial thought. Contributors. Srinivas Aravamudan, Jennifer A. Gonzalez, Pedro Lasch, Arnaud Maillet, Walter Mignolo, Pete Sigal

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Author:   Pedro Lasch
Publisher:   Duke University Museum of Art,U.S.
Imprint:   Duke University Museum of Art,U.S.
Dimensions:   Width: 23.40cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 27.20cm
Weight:   0.803kg
ISBN:  

9780938989349

ISBN 10:   0938989340
Pages:   277
Publication Date:   01 August 2010
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments / Agradecimientos xi Preface / Prefacio, Kimerly Rorschach xiv Foreword / Prólogo, Srinivas Aravamudan 2 Black Mirror / Espejo Negro Introductory Statement by the Artist / Texto introductorio del artista, Pedro Lasch 10 Black Mirror, Ink Mirror: Fascination as Entrapment / Espejo negro, espejo de tinta: La fascinación como trampa, Arnaud Maillet 50 Stone Muse / Musa de piedra, Jennifer A. González 64 Colonial Reflections/Magical Imaginations: Pedro Lasch's Tezcatlipoca / Reflejos coloniales/imaginaciones mágicas: El Tezcatlipoca de Petro Lasch, Pete Sigal 74 Decolonial Aesthetics: Unlearning and Relearning the Museum Through Pedro Lasch's Black Mirror/Espejo Negro / Estética descolonial: desaprendiendo y reaprendiendo el museo a través del Black Mirror/Espejo Negro de Pedro Lasch, Walter Mignolo 86 Index / índice 104 Contributors / Contribuyentes 110

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Pedro Lasch is an assistant research professor in the Department of Art, Art History, and Visual Studies at Duke University. He has shown his work in many venues, including the Queens Museum of Art, the Walker Arts Center in Minneapolis, the Royal College of Art (London), Centro Nacional de las Artes (Mexico City), the Singapore Art Museum, and the Gwangju Biennale (South Korea).

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