| La tradicion del Amate: innovacion y protesta en el arte mexicano / The Amate Tradition, Innovation and DIssent in Mexican Art (English and Spanish Edition) |  | Author: Jonathan D. Amith
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Category: Book
Buy New: $187.94
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Sales Rank: 4,514,202
Languages: Spanish (Unknown), Spanish (Original Language), English (Published), Spanish (Published)
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st
Pages: 168
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.9 x 0.7
ISBN: 9686272089
EAN: 9789686272086
ASIN: 9686272089
Publication Date: July 1996
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Product Description
This handsome book and the exhibit from which it arose began in 1990 as a political project--to raise national and international concsciousness to prevent the construction of a hydroelectric dam that would forcibly relocate 40,000 indegenous residents of the Balsas River basin in central Guerrrero, Mexico. It succeeded--both in stopping the dam, and in resurrecting and developing an art medium: amate. Since precolumbian times amate has been made from tree bark, which is crushed, pounded into flat sheets, and dried. The contemporary artists in this collection use bright color and subtle texture to create artworks that have now become highly collectible. Background to this artistic and political reawakening is presented through written and visual essays on the archaeology, history, and ethnography of the region. The book closes with a selection of twenty contemporary photographs that capture the multifaceted world of the Balsas River basin villages. The entire text is presented in both Spanish and English.
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