Dana Leibsohn
Biographic Data
| ID | 170962 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dana Leibsohn |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dana |
| FAMILY NAME | Leibsohn |
| SIGNATURE | LEIBSOHN D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Smith College |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9231-6165 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 100 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Archaeology of Early Colonial Manila: A Hybrid City in Global History
Is the Global (Still) Art History’s Future
Monica Juneja. Can Art History Be Made Global? Meditations from the Periphery. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2023. 352 pp.; 41 color ills., 15 b/w ills.; $45 clothThis book opens with a question about the gl
From Acoma to the Bajío: Indigenous Arts and the Fault Lines of Colonialism
Lost and Found at Sea, or a Shipwreck’s Art History
To be lost and found at sea: What kinds of thinking does the shipwreck prompt? This essay pursues this question by centering fragmented remains—large beeswax blocks and Chinese porcelain ware—from the Santo Cristo de Burgos, a Spanish galleon lost while traveling from Manila to Acapulco at the end of the seventeenth century. By considering how durable commodities were recovered and reimagined, primarily by Indigenous inhabitants of the Oregon co…
Primers for Memory: Cartographic Histories and Nahua Identity
Introduction: Geographies of Sight
Eloquence and ethnohistory: Indigenous loyalty and the making of a Tagalog letrado
After the Seven Years’ War, imperial players found much to commemorate. Works of art depicting anxious moments of preparation and flurries of dramatic military maneuvering abound. For those in both
Scorned Subjects in Colonial Objects
Focusing on colonial Spanish America, we explore scorned subjects—indigenous things that were identified as vital, sentient subjects by the people who made and used them but reclassified as “objects” by European friars, priests and settlers. Attending to key examples of scorned subjects in central Mexico and the Andes, we consider how European ontology and epistemology, manifested in the actions of colonial-era missionaries and persisting in pres…
Transpacific: Beyond silk and silver
Early in April of 1618, the Angel de la Guardia and the Espiritu Santo began their westward journey across the Pacific Ocean. In keeping with annual ritual, they left the port of Acapulco aiming to
Horizons pacifiques de l’art américain
Au début de ce siècle, l’historien David Armitage déclarait : « Désormais, nous sommes tous des atlantistes ». Cette assertion, qui sonne comme une bravade, contient une grande part de vérité. À leur sommet, les Atlantic studies s’efforçaient (et s’efforcent toujours) d’ouvrir des perspectives méthodologiques et historiques sur les réseaux – réels, imaginaires, ou un peu des deux – reliant les populations et les marchandises des Amériques et de l…
American art’s Western horizons
Writing at the turn of the current century, the historian David Armitage proclaimed, "We are all Atlanticists now." 1 His claim evinces bravado, but carries a good deal of truth. When at its best, Atlantic Studies sought (and still seeks) to open methodological and historical perspectives onto the networks -be they physical, imagined, or some combination thereof -that connected people and goods of the Americas and Africa with those of Western Eur…
Dentro y fuera de los muros: Manila, Ethnicity, and Colonial Cartography
In 1671 the Dominican friar Ignacio Muñoz created a map of Manila that has since become one of the most frequently published images of the city. His pen-and-ink image describes key places in the island city-some that would have been characteristic of urban spaces across Spanish America and some that were highly distinctive. This cartographic representation also enlists visual and textual language that was, by the late seventeenth century, familia…
El Códice Vergara: Edición facsimilar con comentario: Pintura indígena de casas, campos, y organización social de Tepetlaoztoc a mediados del siglo XVI
Book Review| April 01 2013 El Códice Vergara: Edición facsimilar con comentario: Pintura indígena de casas, campos, y organización social de Tepetlaoztoc a mediados del siglo XVI El Códice Vergara: Edición facsimilar con comentario: Pintura indígena de casas, campos, y organización social de Tepetlaoztoc a mediados del siglo XVI. By Williams, Barbara J. and Hicks, Frederic. (Mexico City: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 2011. 357 pp., col…
Art, Architecture and the Meaning of Things in Colonial Latin America
Historia general del Piru: Facsimile of J. Paul Getty Museum Ms. Ludwig XIII 16
Thomas B. F. Cummins and Barbara Anderson, eds. Historia general del Piru: Facsimile of J. Paul Getty Museum Ms. Ludwig XIII 16. With The Getty Murúa: Essays on the Making of the Historia general del Piru. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2008. 804 pp. illus. $250. ISBN: 978–0–89236–895–2. - Volume 62 Issue 4
Hybridity and Its Discontents: Considering Visual Culture in Colonial Spanish America
2003). Hybridity and Its Discontents: Considering Visual Culture in Colonial Spanish America* Colonial Latin American Review: Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 5-35
Native Traditions in the Postconquest World: A Symposium at Dumbarton Oaks, 2nd through 4th October 1992; Cartographic Encounters: Perspectives on Native American Mapmaking and Map Use
Book Review| October 01 2000 Native Traditions in the Postconquest World: A Symposium at Dumbarton Oaks, 2nd through 4th October 1992; Cartographic Encounters: Perspectives on Native American Mapmaking and Map Use Edited by G. Malcolm Lewis. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. xx+ 318 pp., preface, introduction, illustrations, maps, index. $60.00 cloth.)Edited by Elizabeth Hill Boone and Tom Cummins. (Washington, dc:Dumbarton Oaks, 1998.…
Codex Azcatitlan. Vols. 1 and 2
La tradición del Amate: Innovatión y protesta en el arte Mexicano/TheAmate Tradition: Innovation and Dissent in Mexican Art
La tradición del Amate: Innovatión. protesta en el arte Mexicano/TheAmate Tradition: Innovation and Dissent in Mexican Art. Jonathan D. Amith. ed. Chicago: Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum; Coyoacán, Mexico: La Casa de las lm ́genes, 1996.168 pp
Of Copies, Casts, and Codices: Mexico on Display in 1892
"In the fall of 1892, to honor the 400th anniversary of Columbus's voyage across the Atlantic, the Exposición Histórico-Americana opened its doors in Madrid. Thousands of visitors came to be awed and edified by all the known portraits depicting Columbus, feather paintings made by Christianized Aztecs, mineralogical specimens, Quimbaya gold figurines, Amerindian skulls and mummies, and even a model of a Viking ship. In a spacious structure on the …
Interpreting Literacies: Recent Essays on Ethnography, Reading, and Writing
L'A. analyse deux ouvrages traitant de l'alphabetisation, de la relation entre l'ecriture et la lecture, entre le lecteur et le texte, entre l'ecriture, la lecture et l'oralite : « Cross-cultural approaches to literacy » de B. V. Street et « The ethnography of reading » de J. Boyarin reunissent plusieurs essais
Hybridity and Its Discontents: Considering Visual Culture in Colonial Spanish America
2003). Hybridity and Its Discontents: Considering Visual Culture in Colonial Spanish America* Colonial Latin American Review: Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 5-35
Dentro y fuera de los muros: Manila, Ethnicity, and Colonial Cartography
In 1671 the Dominican friar Ignacio Muñoz created a map of Manila that has since become one of the most frequently published images of the city. His pen-and-ink image describes key places in the island city-some that would have been characteristic of urban spaces across Spanish America and some that were highly distinctive. This cartographic representation also enlists visual and textual language that was, by the late seventeenth century, familia…
Transpacific: Beyond silk and silver
Early in April of 1618, the Angel de la Guardia and the Espiritu Santo began their westward journey across the Pacific Ocean. In keeping with annual ritual, they left the port of Acapulco aiming to
Scorned Subjects in Colonial Objects
Focusing on colonial Spanish America, we explore scorned subjects—indigenous things that were identified as vital, sentient subjects by the people who made and used them but reclassified as “objects” by European friars, priests and settlers. Attending to key examples of scorned subjects in central Mexico and the Andes, we consider how European ontology and epistemology, manifested in the actions of colonial-era missionaries and persisting in pres…
Interpreting Literacies: Recent Essays on Ethnography, Reading, and Writing
L'A. analyse deux ouvrages traitant de l'alphabetisation, de la relation entre l'ecriture et la lecture, entre le lecteur et le texte, entre l'ecriture, la lecture et l'oralite : « Cross-cultural approaches to literacy » de B. V. Street et « The ethnography of reading » de J. Boyarin reunissent plusieurs essais
Of Copies, Casts, and Codices: Mexico on Display in 1892
"In the fall of 1892, to honor the 400th anniversary of Columbus's voyage across the Atlantic, the Exposición Histórico-Americana opened its doors in Madrid. Thousands of visitors came to be awed and edified by all the known portraits depicting Columbus, feather paintings made by Christianized Aztecs, mineralogical specimens, Quimbaya gold figurines, Amerindian skulls and mummies, and even a model of a Viking ship. In a spacious structure on the …
Codex Azcatitlan. Vols. 1 and 2
La tradición del Amate: Innovatión y protesta en el arte Mexicano/TheAmate Tradition: Innovation and Dissent in Mexican Art
La tradición del Amate: Innovatión. protesta en el arte Mexicano/TheAmate Tradition: Innovation and Dissent in Mexican Art. Jonathan D. Amith. ed. Chicago: Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum; Coyoacán, Mexico: La Casa de las lm ́genes, 1996.168 pp
Native Traditions in the Postconquest World: A Symposium at Dumbarton Oaks, 2nd through 4th October 1992; Cartographic Encounters: Perspectives on Native American Mapmaking and Map Use
Book Review| October 01 2000 Native Traditions in the Postconquest World: A Symposium at Dumbarton Oaks, 2nd through 4th October 1992; Cartographic Encounters: Perspectives on Native American Mapmaking and Map Use Edited by G. Malcolm Lewis. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. xx+ 318 pp., preface, introduction, illustrations, maps, index. $60.00 cloth.)Edited by Elizabeth Hill Boone and Tom Cummins. (Washington, dc:Dumbarton Oaks, 1998.…
Hybridity and Its Discontents: Considering Visual Culture in Colonial Spanish America
2003). Hybridity and Its Discontents: Considering Visual Culture in Colonial Spanish America* Colonial Latin American Review: Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 5-35
Historia general del Piru: Facsimile of J. Paul Getty Museum Ms. Ludwig XIII 16
Thomas B. F. Cummins and Barbara Anderson, eds. Historia general del Piru: Facsimile of J. Paul Getty Museum Ms. Ludwig XIII 16. With The Getty Murúa: Essays on the Making of the Historia general del Piru. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2008. 804 pp. illus. $250. ISBN: 978–0–89236–895–2. - Volume 62 Issue 4
Art, Architecture and the Meaning of Things in Colonial Latin America
El Códice Vergara: Edición facsimilar con comentario: Pintura indígena de casas, campos, y organización social de Tepetlaoztoc a mediados del siglo XVI
Book Review| April 01 2013 El Códice Vergara: Edición facsimilar con comentario: Pintura indígena de casas, campos, y organización social de Tepetlaoztoc a mediados del siglo XVI El Códice Vergara: Edición facsimilar con comentario: Pintura indígena de casas, campos, y organización social de Tepetlaoztoc a mediados del siglo XVI. By Williams, Barbara J. and Hicks, Frederic. (Mexico City: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 2011. 357 pp., col…
Dentro y fuera de los muros: Manila, Ethnicity, and Colonial Cartography
In 1671 the Dominican friar Ignacio Muñoz created a map of Manila that has since become one of the most frequently published images of the city. His pen-and-ink image describes key places in the island city-some that would have been characteristic of urban spaces across Spanish America and some that were highly distinctive. This cartographic representation also enlists visual and textual language that was, by the late seventeenth century, familia…
Horizons pacifiques de l’art américain
Au début de ce siècle, l’historien David Armitage déclarait : « Désormais, nous sommes tous des atlantistes ». Cette assertion, qui sonne comme une bravade, contient une grande part de vérité. À leur sommet, les Atlantic studies s’efforçaient (et s’efforcent toujours) d’ouvrir des perspectives méthodologiques et historiques sur les réseaux – réels, imaginaires, ou un peu des deux – reliant les populations et les marchandises des Amériques et de l…
American art’s Western horizons
Writing at the turn of the current century, the historian David Armitage proclaimed, "We are all Atlanticists now." 1 His claim evinces bravado, but carries a good deal of truth. When at its best, Atlantic Studies sought (and still seeks) to open methodological and historical perspectives onto the networks -be they physical, imagined, or some combination thereof -that connected people and goods of the Americas and Africa with those of Western Eur…
Transpacific: Beyond silk and silver
Early in April of 1618, the Angel de la Guardia and the Espiritu Santo began their westward journey across the Pacific Ocean. In keeping with annual ritual, they left the port of Acapulco aiming to
Scorned Subjects in Colonial Objects
Focusing on colonial Spanish America, we explore scorned subjects—indigenous things that were identified as vital, sentient subjects by the people who made and used them but reclassified as “objects” by European friars, priests and settlers. Attending to key examples of scorned subjects in central Mexico and the Andes, we consider how European ontology and epistemology, manifested in the actions of colonial-era missionaries and persisting in pres…
Introduction: Geographies of Sight
Eloquence and ethnohistory: Indigenous loyalty and the making of a Tagalog letrado
After the Seven Years’ War, imperial players found much to commemorate. Works of art depicting anxious moments of preparation and flurries of dramatic military maneuvering abound. For those in both
Primers for Memory: Cartographic Histories and Nahua Identity
Lost and Found at Sea, or a Shipwreck’s Art History
To be lost and found at sea: What kinds of thinking does the shipwreck prompt? This essay pursues this question by centering fragmented remains—large beeswax blocks and Chinese porcelain ware—from the Santo Cristo de Burgos, a Spanish galleon lost while traveling from Manila to Acapulco at the end of the seventeenth century. By considering how durable commodities were recovered and reimagined, primarily by Indigenous inhabitants of the Oregon co…
Is the Global (Still) Art History’s Future
Monica Juneja. Can Art History Be Made Global? Meditations from the Periphery. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2023. 352 pp.; 41 color ills., 15 b/w ills.; $45 clothThis book opens with a question about the gl
From Acoma to the Bajío: Indigenous Arts and the Fault Lines of Colonialism
The Archaeology of Early Colonial Manila: A Hybrid City in Global History
Art (14 works) · History (13 works) · Latin American history and culture (9 works) · Archaeology (7 works) · History (7 works) · Geography (6 works) · Anthropology (5 works) · Art history (5 works) · Colonialism (5 works) · Political science (5 works)