Spiritual Mining: Augustinian Images of Extraction in Colonial Peru

IF 0.4 1区艺术学 0 ART

ART BULLETIN Pub Date : 2022-10-02 DOI:10.1080/00043079.2022.2070393

Annick Benavides

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Abstract

Abstract Prints and paintings that celebrate the conversion of Indigenous peoples to Christianity can be perceived as “spiritual mining” in light of an underlying extractive ethos that structured the colonial enterprise. This article discusses seventeenth-century artworks commissioned by the Augustinian Order in Peru, which equated evangelization with the mining of precious minerals. Analysis of the artworks paired with a close historical reading of the book of Job identifies an agenda that objectifies Indigenous souls as treasure in order to normalize gestational events in global capitalism—the extraction of mineral resources from American lands and exploitation of Indigenous labor.

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精神采矿:奥古斯丁在秘鲁殖民时期的提取图像

庆祝土著人民皈依基督教的版画和绘画可以被视为“精神采矿”，因为这是一种潜在的采掘精神，构成了殖民企业。这篇文章讨论了受秘鲁奥古斯丁骑士团委托的17世纪艺术品，它将福音传播等同于珍贵矿物的开采。对这些艺术作品的分析与对《约伯记》的近距离历史阅读相结合，发现了一个将土著灵魂物化为财富的议程，目的是使全球资本主义孕育期的事件——从美国土地上开采矿产资源和剥削土著劳动力——正常化。

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