Member Book Club: "Painted Cloth" and "Inés of My Soul" by Isabel Allende

Thursday, October 13, 2022 | 6:00pm (CT) via Zoom 

Book lovers unite at the Member Book Club—pairing literature with the latest exhibitions! With special guest, Rosario I. Granados, the Blanton’s Marilynn Thoma Associate Curator, Art of the Spanish Americas.

This fall, we’re reading Isabel Allende’s sweeping historical novel Inés of My Soul in connection with the vibrant exhibition Painted Cloth: Fashion and Ritual in Colonial Latin America, on view through January 8, 2023.  A fictionalized account of a real-life figure, Inés of My Soul provides a glimpse into life in the early Spanish Americas and, like the exhibition, offers abundant material for discussion.  

Email member@blantonmuseum.org to learn how to join this virtual discussion!

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Image credit: Sobre los telares de seda que hay en esta capital, pages 54–55, Mexico City, 1783, paper, silk weaving, textile samples sewn onto pages, 12 × 8 11/12 x 11/12 in., Brooklyn Museum, Carll H. de Silver Fund