Identidades afrodescendientes en el retrato familiarun recorrido por la cultura visual transatlántica del siglo XVII-XVIII

Zusammenfassung

The following article discusses the construction of afrodescendant identities in the transatlantic visual culture of the eighteen century. Specifically, the importance of portraiture as a cultural agent involved in the formation of collective identities is highlighted given its ability to synthesize complex discourses in which multiple vectors of alterity intersect. To this end, the focus of analysis is placed on the processes of social perception of the underlying differences in baroque visuality, taking into account the meanings, symbolic uses and social dimensions contained in the proposed portraits. In terms of the geographical dimension, the specificity of the Atlantic is highlighted as a space for cultural exchange and ideas between America, Africa and Europe and in which the Canary Islands acquire a specificity and marked prominence.