University of Pennsylvania ScholarlyCommons Undergraduate Humanities Forum 2014-2015: Penn Humanities Forum Undergraduate Color Research Fellows 5-2015 (De)Colonizing Representations: Influence of 20th Century Indigenous/Indigenist Art in Ecuador, Peru, and Mexico Juan Cabrera University of Pennsylvania Follow this and additional works at: https://repository.upenn.edu/uhf_2015 Part of the History of Art, Architecture, and Archaeology Commons, Latin American Languages and Societies Commons, and the Photography Commons Cabrera, Juan, "(De)Colonizing Representations: Influence of 20th Century Indigenous/Indigenist Art in Ecuador, Peru, and Mexico" (2015). Undergraduate Humanities Forum 2014-2015: Color. 2. https://repository.upenn.edu/uhf_2015/2 This paper was part of the 2014-2015 Penn Humanities Forum on Color. Find out more at http://www.phf.upenn.edu/annual-topics/color. This paper is posted at ScholarlyCommons. https://repository.upenn.edu/uhf_2015/2 For more information, please contact
[email protected]. (De)Colonizing Representations: Influence of 20th Century Indigenous/Indigenist Art in Ecuador, Peru, and Mexico Abstract How has 20th century Indigenous/Indigenist art influenced the ways in which Indigenous peoples of Ecuador, Peru, and Mexico were viewed? By comparing painting’s representative qualities and photography’s manipulation of reality, we can begin to understand what the art evoked in the public sphere, and how it functioned to change the public’s perceptions of Indigenous peoples in these areas. Shifting representations