- Title Pages
- Frontispiece
- Part I Outside
- Outside
- The Weight of Reality
- Doubles
- Shadows
- Part II Chance
- Cause, Choice, Chance
- Part III Passions
- The Altiplano
- Return of the First Person Singular
- Aconcagua
- Seduction
- Truthfulness
- Part IV Belief
- The Stone Axe
- Angels with Guns
- Belief
- Performance
- Voyage
- Part V Justice
- The Future of Torture
- Justice
- The System
- Truth in Reconciliation
- Part VI Irrevocable
- The Babies in Trees
- Mortality
- Dignity
- Irrevocable Loss
- Part VII Gratitude
- Gratitude
- Appendix Philosophy’s Tasks
- Notes
- About the Photographs
- Acknowledgments
Angels with Guns
Angels with Guns
- Chapter:
- (p.89) Angels with Guns
- Source:
- Irrevocable
- Author(s):
Alphonso Lingis
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
The first American school of art began in Qosqo after Pizarros’s conquest of Peru. Monks set up workshops to train local people in painting pictures to adorn churches and monasteries. In the 17th century, the painters began painting series of angels, depicted in Spanish garb and bearing arms. What is the difference between artworks on topics or narratives from myths and artworks that themselves concentrate sacred power?
Keywords: Qosqo school, angels bearing arms, sacred objects
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- Title Pages
- Frontispiece
- Part I Outside
- Outside
- The Weight of Reality
- Doubles
- Shadows
- Part II Chance
- Cause, Choice, Chance
- Part III Passions
- The Altiplano
- Return of the First Person Singular
- Aconcagua
- Seduction
- Truthfulness
- Part IV Belief
- The Stone Axe
- Angels with Guns
- Belief
- Performance
- Voyage
- Part V Justice
- The Future of Torture
- Justice
- The System
- Truth in Reconciliation
- Part VI Irrevocable
- The Babies in Trees
- Mortality
- Dignity
- Irrevocable Loss
- Part VII Gratitude
- Gratitude
- Appendix Philosophy’s Tasks
- Notes
- About the Photographs
- Acknowledgments