Introduction : Texts and Contexts : "Bookish Architecture," Mural Painting, and Theatricality in Colonial Mexico -- Toward a Literature of Foundations -- Renascent Genres in New Spain -- Iconography and Evangelization -- The Last Judgment : Mural Painting and Missionary Theater -- Appendix : The Last Judgment
Summary
This book examines how the relationships between mural painting and missionary theater became a transcultural process for mass conversion of Native populations to Christianity. The author studies the New World expressions of dramatic and plastic arts and how they became the tools of European friars to Christianize Native peoples and ultimately create a new literary and artistic tradition.--description provided by publisher