Waterweavers : a chronicle of rivers

Author:

Roca, José

Format:

Book

Language:

English

Imprint:

New York : Bard Graduate Center: Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture, 2014

Subject:

Art, Colombian - 21st century - Themes, motives - Exhibitions
Design - Colombia - 21st century - Exhibitions
Rivers in art - Exhibitions
Rivers - Social aspects - Colombia - Exhibitions

Contributor:

Martín, Alejandro, editor, curator
Bard Graduate Center: Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture, host institution

ISBN:

9780982468012, 0982468016, 9780982468012 (hardcover), and 0982468016 (hardcover)

Description:

400 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Notes:

"This book is published in conjunction with the exhibition Waterweavers: The River in Contemporary Colombian Visual and Material Culture held at the Bard Graduate Center Gallery from April 11 to August 10, 2014. Curators of the Exhibition José Roca with Alejandro Martín."

Bibliographic Note:

Includes bibliographical references

Contents:

Foreword / Susan Weber -- Preface / Nina Stritzler-Levine -- Waterweavers: the river in contemporary Colombian visual and material culture / José Roca -- A chronicle of rivers / Alejandro Martin -- N.N.N. / Fernando Zalamea -- The shapes of water, selected poems from manglares / Tomás González -- In this river there is nothing but despair from the letter from Lope de Aguirre, Rebel, to King Philip of Spain -- Susana Mejía -- Amazonia / Héctor Abad Faciolince -- Reading one river on the river / Alberto Baraya -- Alberto Baraya -- The canoe, like a floating coffin, moved down the river from the vortex / José Eustasio Rivera -- Jorge Lizarazo -- Looking with words, looking with stories / Catalina Vargas Tovar and Abel Rodriguez -- Abel Rodriguez -- Río Grande de la Magdalena from the epitome of the conquest of the new kingdom of Granada / Alonso de Santa Cruz -- Nicolás Consuegra -- Magdalena, father of waters, one of the greatest rivers of the world, was only an illusion of memory from love in the time of cholera / Gabriel García Márquez -- David Consuegra -- Decorative openwork in Pre-Colombian indigenous metalwork / David Consuegra -- Tangrama --Clemencia Echeveri -- The cauca, death downriver / Elizabeth Yarce -- Marcelo Villegas -- Alvaro Catalán de Ocón -- Water is neither good nor bad, a Guambiano oral narrative -- El Dorado, the legend of Guatavita Lake from the Chibcha people prior to the Spanish conquest / Vincente Restrepo -- Ceci Arango -- Lucy Salamanca -- Fair trade design / Gabrielle Sossella, Ludovico Gualzetti, Benno Simma and Lucy Salamanca -- Juan Fernando Herrán -- What was once the fall / Antonia Caballero -- Carol Young -- Olga de Amaral -- The house of my imagination / Olga de Amaral -- A historical and ethnographic look at the Ranchería River Basin / Weidler Guerra Curvelo -- Monkia Bravo -- Mother of water as told by Arhuaco storyteller Nukaki-Súka -- María Isabel Rueda -- La gata from upriver: between cocaine and the gold / Alfredo Molano

Collection:

BGC Monograph Stacks

Call Number:

N6675.6 .R63 2014

Available

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Collection:

BGC Monograph Stacks

Call Number:

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