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Kubiak,Eva; Szoblik,Katarzyna: Forword
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Sztuka Ameryki Łacińskiej 2022, nr 12
ISSN 2299-260X
Foreword
Latin America is where radically different notions of time and history met: Eu-
ropean and American. While Western historiography was based on chronicles,
documents, and diaries, showing a linear passage of time focused on key events
and figures recognizable in most countries comprising “Western civilization”,
Native American cultures viewed these aspects differently. Federico Navarrete
Linares (2001) outlined specific historical chronotypes in pre-Hispanic Mesoa-
merica and the Andes. They emphasized time’s cyclical nature and certain phe-
nomena’ rhythmic repetition. They also allowed for various parallel “histories”
and “chronologies” conducted by neighboring communities. The meeting of
these two ways of perceiving historical tradition resulted in a richness and di-
versity of historical narratives transmitted both orally and in writing, as well as
through art. This latter aspect has become the subject of the next issue of Arte
de America Latina. In it, we will be interested in the interrelationship between
history (in its various aspects) and art.
The first article by Donat Amado Gonzales is devoted to the history of the
property owned by the Most Blessed Sacrament confraternity at the San Blas
parish church in Cusco. The researcher describes the house’s history, focuses
on its neighborhood, and outlines the spatial context within the parish territo-
ry. In the same Cusco quarter is the former beaterio Nuestra Señora del Car-
men (now the girls’ school Colegio del Carmen), to which the following two
texts are devoted. In the first, Milena Manotupa Gomez shows the transforma-
tion of the property owned by the Carmelite tertiaries, pointing out the gradual
expansion of the area they held and the addition of more plots of land in the vi-
cinity of the beaterio and chapel. On the other hand, Ewa Kubiak presents what
the beatrio’s buildings looked like in the last third of the 18th century, based on
an analysis of an unpublished document from 1772 stored in the Archivo Arzo-
bispal del Cusco.
ISSN 2299-260X
Foreword
Latin America is where radically different notions of time and history met: Eu-
ropean and American. While Western historiography was based on chronicles,
documents, and diaries, showing a linear passage of time focused on key events
and figures recognizable in most countries comprising “Western civilization”,
Native American cultures viewed these aspects differently. Federico Navarrete
Linares (2001) outlined specific historical chronotypes in pre-Hispanic Mesoa-
merica and the Andes. They emphasized time’s cyclical nature and certain phe-
nomena’ rhythmic repetition. They also allowed for various parallel “histories”
and “chronologies” conducted by neighboring communities. The meeting of
these two ways of perceiving historical tradition resulted in a richness and di-
versity of historical narratives transmitted both orally and in writing, as well as
through art. This latter aspect has become the subject of the next issue of Arte
de America Latina. In it, we will be interested in the interrelationship between
history (in its various aspects) and art.
The first article by Donat Amado Gonzales is devoted to the history of the
property owned by the Most Blessed Sacrament confraternity at the San Blas
parish church in Cusco. The researcher describes the house’s history, focuses
on its neighborhood, and outlines the spatial context within the parish territo-
ry. In the same Cusco quarter is the former beaterio Nuestra Señora del Car-
men (now the girls’ school Colegio del Carmen), to which the following two
texts are devoted. In the first, Milena Manotupa Gomez shows the transforma-
tion of the property owned by the Carmelite tertiaries, pointing out the gradual
expansion of the area they held and the addition of more plots of land in the vi-
cinity of the beaterio and chapel. On the other hand, Ewa Kubiak presents what
the beatrio’s buildings looked like in the last third of the 18th century, based on
an analysis of an unpublished document from 1772 stored in the Archivo Arzo-
bispal del Cusco.