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The Conservation of Decorated Surfaces on Earthen Architecture
For millennia, people of all cultures have decorated the surfaces of their domestic, religious, and public buildings. Earthen architecture in particular has been, and continues to be, a common ground for surface decoration such as paintings, sculpted bas-relief, and ornamental plasterwork. This volume explores the complex issues associated with preserving these surfaces. Case studies from Asia, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and the Americas are presented. The publication is the result of a colloquium held in 2004 at Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado, co-organized by the Getty Conservation Institute (GCI) and the National Park Service (NPS). The meeting brought together fifty-five conservators, cultural resource managers, materials scientists, engineers, architects, archaeologists, anthropologists, and artists from eleven countries. Divided into four themes--Archaeological Sites, Museum Practice, Historic Buildings, and Living Traditions--the papers examine the conservation of decorated surfaces on earthen architecture within these different contexts.
Techumbres polícromas en templos jesuitas construidos en Nueva Vizcaya (Chihuahua, México) S. XVII y XVIII
Entre principios del siglo XVII y mediados del siglo XVIII, la Compañía de Jesús estableció más de cien misiones en el centro de la Nueva Vizcaya (Chihuahua, México). Éstas tenían como objetivo agrupar y establecer sociedades indígenas cristianas practicantes de las tradiciones, creencias, modos y formas de vida europeas. Hoy en día, las ciudades y pueblos rurales del estado son resultado de dichos asentamientos misionales, así como de las haciendas, presidios, villas españolas y Real de Minas instituidos por la corona española en aquella época. Los jesuitas construyeron y decoraron sus templos aprovechando el entorno natural y los materiales locales, si bien aplicaban estilos,...
Voices of Mexico
News, commentary, and documents on current events in Mexico and Latin America.
Breve recorrido por el patrimonio cultural de México
Este libro es un recorrido por la exuberante diversidad cultural de México donde se reúnen ejemplos emblemáticos del patrimonio en sus dos dimensiones: tangible e intangible. Por supuesto, es imposible mencionar una a una las manifestaciones culturales vivas y del legado histórico y artístico de cada rincón del país. Se invita al lector a indagar y a observar el patrimonio que forma parte de su entorno inmediato y del que se visita como recorrido turístico.
Education and Pedagogy / Educación y pedagogía
The motivation to dedicate a volume of the Conservation 360° series to education and pedagogy arose during the COVID years 2020 and 2021, when conservation-restoration teachers were forced to suddenly change the format of their lessons. In Europe, an informal and international group called AcCESS (Academic Conservation Education Sharing Site) was formed to share and support each other on how to teach online. It was soon realized that the challenges associated with the curriculum were larger and deeper than the shift from face-to-face to online format. It was also realized that the literature available both at the level of curriculum structure and at the level of classroom didactics was spar...
Art and the Senses in Ancient America
This book explores the materiality and sensory dimensions of pre-Columbian art in Mesoamerica and the Andes. Chapters examine the physicochemical study of raw materials, sensory arts like music and cuisine, and the sociocultural meanings of textures, sounds, and scents, linking ancient practices to modern indigenous traditions.
Self Portrait in Green
'NDiaye is a hypnotic storyteller with an unflinching understanding of the rock-bottom reality of most people's life.' New York Times ' One of France's most exciting prose stylists.' The Guardian. Obsessed by her encounters with the mysterious green women, and haunted by the Garonne River, a nameless narrator seeks them out in La Roele, Paris, Marseille, and Ouagadougou. Each encounter reveals different aspects of the women; real or imagined, dead or alive, seductive or suicidal, driving the narrator deeper into her obsession, in this unsettling exploration of identity, memory and paranoia. Self Portrait in Green is the multi-prize winning, Marie NDiaye's brilliant subversion of the memoir. Written in diary entries, with lyrical prose and dreamlike imagery, we start with and return to the river, which mirrors the narrative by posing more questions than it answers.
About Trees
About Trees considers our relationship with language, landscape, perception, and memory in the Anthropocene. The book includes texts and artwork by a stellar line up of contributors including Jorge Luis Borges, Andrea Bowers, Ursula K. Le Guin, Ada Lovelace and dozens of others. Holten was artist in residence at Buro BDP. While working on the book she created an alphabet and used it to make a new typeface called Trees. She also made a series of limited edition offset prints based on her Tree Drawings.
The Identity of Nations
What is national identity? What are the main challenges posed to national identity by the strengthening of regional identities and the growth of cultural diversity? How is right-wing nationalism connected to the desire to preserve a traditional image of national identity? Can we forge a new kind of national identity that responds to the challenges of globalization and other deep-seated changes? In this important new book, Montserrat Guibernau answers these and other compelling questions about the future of national identity. For Guibernau, the nation-states traditional project to unify its otherwise diverse population by generating a shared sense of national identity among them was always co...
