The Mobile Image

Emily C. Floyd is a lecturer of Visual Culture and Art before 1700 in the History of Art Department at University College London. She is also an editor and curator at the Center for the Study of Material and Visual Cultures of Religion (MAVCOR) at Yale University.

List of Illustrations Introduction: Colonial Prints in Context 1. Between the Local and the Global: Virgins of Candelaria in the Andes 2. Paper Saints: Prints and the Promotion of the Local Holy Dead 3. Brotherhoods of Paper: Lay Religious Confraternities and Regional Sacred Geographies 4. Race, Representation, and LimeNo Printmaking Conclusion Appendix: Engravers Active in Colonial Lima and Their Oeuvres Acknowledgments Notes Index

The Mobile Image is rich, as few books are, with never-before-published objects and notable archival details. Emily Floyd marshals this impressive apparatus to explore the singular status of colonial Lima: the only city in Spanish South America with functioning roller presses for the production of prints. These machines were positioned within networks of production and consumption that rendered Lima a node within overlapping networks that spanned the geographies of the Americas and, indeed, the world. This book stands as its own contribution just as importantly as it will act as a seminal resource (for the appendix alone!) in future studies. - Aaron M. Hyman, University of Basel, author of Rubens in Repeat: The Logic of the Copy in Colonial Latin America Emily Floyd?s book on Peruvian prints offers a rich history focused on artists, patrons, and consumers. Highly sensitive to the way geography, a sense of place, and distance inflected art and image circulation in the colonial world, the author invites thinking anew about difficult themes, including racialization and how it affected colonial art making. Commendable for its thorough archival and field research, Floyd?s important new narrative offers fresh material for an understudied field; as a model study for how prints should be approached in general, it will have an impact well beyond the history of Peruvian viceregal art. - Luisa Elena Alcala Donegani, Autonomous University of Madrid, author of Arte y localizacion de un culto global: La Virgen de Loreto en Mexico