Spanish Scripts Colonize the Image

Inca Visual Rhetorics

Bibliographic Data

ID20069872
AuthorsRocío Quispe‐agnoli (0000-0002-8766-6459, corresponding author), Rocio Quispe-Agnoli
Year2010
Pages41-67
Publication date2010-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeCHAPTER
VenueRhetorics of the Americas (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan US (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1057/9780230102118_4
OpenAlexW2368419133
ISBN9780230102118
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited15

During the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, native authors of the Andean region such as Titu Cusi Yupanqui (1570), Inca Garcilaso de la Vega (1609), Joan de Santa Cruz Pachacuti Yamqui Salcamaygua (1613), and Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala (1615), wrote chronicles that uncover systems of record keeping and communica- tion, and combine alphabetic writing and visual texts. Studying texts produced by early native authors and artists of the Americas reveals how these native authors were able to assimilate rapidly the European alphabet and the official genre of the chronicle of Indies to develop new textualizations of their cultures keeping in sight a rich, sophis- ticated, and ongoing development of visual arts in the pre- and post- Hispanic Andean world. My study of these chronicles has led me to explore the relationships between verbal and iconic textualiza- tions that may be found in the dialectics between Western practices such as the alphabetic script,1 painting, sculpture, engravings, maps, and Andean systems of record keeping and communication such as quipus and tocapus. Considering the dialectical nature of alphabetic writing and Andean visual texts, I propose to review the ways in which Andean subjects respond to the rhetorical colonization of their society and utilize the elements brought by the conquistadores to build representations of early colonial Andes and themselves. In this review, I also want to point out the visual nature of alphabetic writing that is revealed in its contact with indigenous systems of communications from the Americas.KeywordsPublic SignEarly ColonialVisual TextVisual CultureVisual NatureThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves

Archaeology · Art · Colonialism · Dialectic · Indigenous · Painting · Sculpture · Visual arts · Writing system · History · Latin American history and culture

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