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Editorial Commentary

Editorial Commentary Decolonial Aspirations and the Study of Colonial Art CHARLENE VILLASENOR BLACK Colonial Mexicanart is themostdifficultcourse I teach Culture.” My thinking is also inspired by my collabo- at University of California, Los Angeles, where I hold ration with Tatiana Flores and Florencia San Martınon a split appointment in art history and Chicana/o and our forthcoming coedited volume, Decolonizing Art Central American studies. Every artwork and concept History, andbymyworkinChicanx studies.Ienvision I present engages or potentially provokes contested as- my remarks here as a potential pedagogical tool, one sessments, fraught value judgements, and claims of that we may use in discussion with our students and political bias. It begins with the title of the course itself each other as we forge new approaches to the study of and extends to other terminology. Should this art be colonial art. Is it possible to decolonize the study of colonial art? described as colonial, viceregal, or early modern? Were the events of 1519–21, culminating in the fall of Aztec Tenochtitlan to Corte´s’sarmy, aconquestor invasion? DECOLONIALITY How does one ethically teach art created in the service I understand decolonize to be drawn from “decolonial,” of forced religious conversion and colonization? My cognizant of “the coloniality of http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture University of California Press

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Decolonial Aspirations and the Study of Colonial Art CHARLENE VILLASENOR BLACK Colonial Mexicanart is themostdifficultcourse I teach Culture.” My thinking is also inspired by my collabo- at University of California, Los Angeles, where I hold ration with Tatiana Flores and Florencia San Martınon a split appointment in art history and Chicana/o and our forthcoming coedited volume, Decolonizing Art Central American studies. Every artwork and concept History, andbymyworkinChicanx studies.Ienvision I present engages or potentially provokes contested as- my remarks here as a potential pedagogical tool, one sessments, fraught value judgements, and claims of that we may use in discussion with our students and political bias. It begins with the title of the course itself each other as we forge new approaches to the study of and extends to other terminology. Should this art be colonial art. Is it possible to decolonize the study of colonial art? described as colonial, viceregal, or early modern? Were the events of 1519–21, culminating in the fall of Aztec Tenochtitlan to Corte´s’sarmy, aconquestor invasion? DECOLONIALITY How does one ethically teach art created in the service I understand decolonize to be drawn from “decolonial,” of forced religious conversion and colonization? My cognizant of “the coloniality of

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Published: Oct 1, 2021

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