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The art of gold, the legacy of Pre-Hispanic Colombia

Author : Juan Mayr
Publisher : Skira
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The art of gold, the legacy of Pre-Hispanic Colombia written by Juan Mayr and published by Skira. This book was released on 2007 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gold held a deep symbolic meaning for the pre-Hispanic cultures of present-day Colombia. Its color and brilliance made it analogous with the Sun and a powerful symbol of fertility. Its physical and chemical properties allowed for the creation of different textures and a variety of color tones that became part of the political and ritual functions of the objects produced. They manufactured simple objects used by ordinary members of the community, such as nose rings, earrings, breastplates, pendants and tools, as well as complex showy objects including body adornments, emblems of rank and power, and votive figures reserved for important figures such as governors, shaman and venerable elders. This richly illustrated volume traces the legacy of gold in pre-Hispanic Colombia in over 250 exceptional gold objects, supplemented by maps, diagrams, and illustrations that put in context the pieces that make up this extraordinary collection from the Gold Museum of Bogotà. The exceptional photographs are accompanied by brief descriptions of the cultures that created the objects, their customs, the territories they occupied, the techniques used and the symbolic value assigned to the different pieces.

The Treasures of El Dorado, an Exhibition of Colombia's Pre-Hispanic Gold Art

Author : Colombian Center, New York
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 8 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (155 download)

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Download or read book The Treasures of El Dorado, an Exhibition of Colombia's Pre-Hispanic Gold Art written by Colombian Center, New York and published by . This book was released on 196? with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Treasures of El Dorado

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (141 download)

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The Treasures of El Dorado

Author : Colombian Center of the Republic of Colombia
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 8 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (799 download)

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Download or read book The Treasures of El Dorado written by Colombian Center of the Republic of Colombia and published by . This book was released on 19?? with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Gold

Author : Shannon L. Kenny
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Gold written by Shannon L. Kenny and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-04-12 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This encyclopedia provides detailed information about the historical, cultural, social, religious, economic, and scientific significance of gold, across the globe and throughout history. Gold has been an intrinsic part of human culture and society throughout the world, both in ancient times and in the modern era. This precious metal has also played a central role in economics and politics throughout history. In fact, the value of gold remains a topic of debate amid the current upheavals of economic conditions and attendant reevaluations of modern financial principles. Gold: A Cultural Encyclopedia consists of more than 130 entries that encompass every aspect of gold, ranging from the ancient metallurgical arts to contemporary economies. The connections between these interdisciplinary subjects are explored and analyzed to highlight the many ways humankind's fascination with gold reflects historical, cultural, economic, and geographic developments. While the majority of the works related to gold focus on economic theory, this text goes beyond that to take a more sociocultural approach to the subject.

Sacred Gold

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780615580678
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book Sacred Gold written by and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Beyond El Dorado

Author : Elisenda Vila Llonch
Publisher : British Museum Press
ISBN 13 : 9780714125411
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (254 download)

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Download or read book Beyond El Dorado written by Elisenda Vila Llonch and published by British Museum Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In ancient Colombia, people did not use gold as currency or desire it for its economic value. Gold was revered instead for its symbolic association and transformative properties. This sacred metal was used to create some of the most visually dramatic and technically sophisticated works of art found anywhere in the Americas before European contact. Drawing on the spectacular collections of the Museum del Oro in Bogota and the British Museum, this beautiful book features over 100 masterpieces fashioned exquisitely in gold and its alloy tumbaga, including small votive figures, decorative nose rings and earrings, vessels, pectorals and masks. These are presented alongside an array of other highly valued objects textiles, ceramic figurines, shells, colourful stone beads which also played a significant part in daily and ritual contexts. -- Publisher's blurb.

Magdalena

Author : Wade Davis
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0525657894
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (256 download)

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Download or read book Magdalena written by Wade Davis and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A captivating new book from Wade Davis--award-winning, best-selling author and National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence for more than a decade--that brings vividly to life the story of the great Río Magdalena, illuminating Colombia's complex past, present, and future Travelers often become enchanted with the first country that captures their hearts and gives them license to be free. For Wade Davis, it was Colombia. Now in a masterly new book, Davis tells of his travels on the mighty Magdalena, the river that made possible the nation. Along the way, he finds a people who have overcome years of conflict precisely because of their character, informed by an enduring spirit of place, and a deep love of a land that is home to the greatest ecological and geographical diversity on the planet. As Gabriel García Márquez once wrote during his own pilgrimage on the river: "The only reason I would like to be young again would be the chance to travel again on a freighter going up the Magdalena." Only in Colombia can a traveler wash ashore in a coastal desert, follow waterways through wetlands as wide as the sky, ascend narrow tracks through dense tropical forests, and reach verdant Andean valleys rising to soaring ice-clad summits. This rugged and impossible geography finds its perfect coefficient in the topography of the Colombian spirit: restive, potent, at times placid and calm, in moments explosive and wild. Both a corridor of commerce and a fountain of culture, the wellspring of Colombian music, literature, poetry, and prayer, the Magdalena has served in dark times as the graveyard of the nation. And yet, always, it returns as a river of life. At once an absorbing adventure and an inspiring tale of hope and redemption, Magdalena gives us a rare, kaleidoscopic picture of a nation on the verge of a new period of peace. Braiding together memoir, history, and journalism, Wade Davis tells the story of the country's most magnificent river, and in doing so, tells the epic story of Colombia.

Colombia

Author : Sarah Woods
Publisher : Bradt Travel Guides
ISBN 13 : 1841629219
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (416 download)

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Download or read book Colombia written by Sarah Woods and published by Bradt Travel Guides. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide to Colombia reflects the resurgence of the country among travellers following years of lawlessness. With a strong focus on the country's cultural attractions, it will appeal to visitors seeking to discover Colombia's renowned flora and fauna, as well as its historic colonial cities, and its range of eco-tourism initiatives

Prehispanic Gold Work of Colombia

Author : National Museum Janpath (New Delhi)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (199 download)

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Download or read book Prehispanic Gold Work of Colombia written by National Museum Janpath (New Delhi) and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Art of Prehispanic Colombia

Author : Sam Enslow
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Art of Prehispanic Colombia written by Sam Enslow and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Amerindian Socio-Cosmologies between the Andes, Amazonia and Mesoamerica

Author : Ernst Halbmayer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000023095
Total Pages : 372 pages
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Download or read book Amerindian Socio-Cosmologies between the Andes, Amazonia and Mesoamerica written by Ernst Halbmayer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-01-10 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a new anthropological understanding of the socio-cosmological and ontological characteristics of the Isthmo–Colombian Area, beyond established theories for Amazonia, the Andes and Mesoamerica. It focuses on a core region that has been largely neglected by comparative anthropology in recent decades. Centering on relations between Chibchan groups and their neighbors, the contributions consider prevailing socio-cosmological principles and their relationship to Amazonian animism and Mesoamerican and Andean analogism. Classical notions of area homogeneity are reconsidered and the book formulates an overarching proposal for how to make sense of the heterogeneity of the region’s indigenous groups. Drawing on original fieldwork and comparative analysis, the volume provides a valuable anthropological addition to archaeological and linguistic knowledge of the Isthmo・Colombian Area.

Colombia Before Columbus

Author : Armand J. Labbé
Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Colombia Before Columbus written by Armand J. Labbé and published by Rizzoli International Publications. This book was released on 1986 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Art of Precolumbian Gold

Author : Julie Jones
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 0821215949
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (212 download)

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Download or read book The Art of Precolumbian Gold written by Julie Jones and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 1985 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Golden Kingdoms

Author : Joanne Pillsbury
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 1606065483
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Golden Kingdoms written by Joanne Pillsbury and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2017-09-26 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume accompanies a major international loan exhibition featuring more than three hundred works of art, many rarely or never before seen in the United States. It traces the development of gold working and other luxury arts in the Americas from antiquity until the arrival of Europeans in the early sixteenth century. Presenting spectacular works from recent excavations in Peru, Colombia, Panama, Costa Rica, Guatemala, and Mexico, this exhibition focuses on specific places and times—crucibles of innovation—where artistic exchange, rivalry, and creativity led to the production of some of the greatest works of art known from the ancient Americas. The book and exhibition explore not only artistic practices but also the historical, cultural, social, and political conditions in which luxury arts were produced and circulated, alongside their religious meanings and ritual functions. Golden Kingdoms creates new understandings of ancient American art through a thematic exploration of indigenous ideas of value and luxury. Central to the book is the idea of the exchange of materials and ideas across regions and across time: works of great value would often be transported over long distances, or passed down over generations, in both cases attracting new audiences and inspiring new artists. The idea of exchange is at the intellectual heart of this volume, researched and written by twenty scholars based in the United States and Latin America.

Michelin Green Guide Colombia

Author : Michelin
Publisher : Michelin Travel & Lifestyle
ISBN 13 : 2067182080
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (671 download)

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Download or read book Michelin Green Guide Colombia written by Michelin and published by Michelin Travel & Lifestyle. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CThis eBook version of the Green Guide Colombia by Michelin is an exciting new addition to the Green Guide family of comprehensive travel guides. The Green Guide Colombia brings to life this amazingly diverse land whether your travels take you to the Amazon River and the surrounding rain forest, the rolling plantations and coffee-farms set in Zona Cafetera’s verdant valleys, or the vibrant nightlife and great museums of Bogotá, Medellin and Cali. With each page packed with sight descriptions, maps and color photos, Michelin makes sure you'll see the best Colombia has to offer.

Archaeometallurgy – Materials Science Aspects

Author : Andreas Hauptmann
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030503674
Total Pages : 595 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Archaeometallurgy – Materials Science Aspects written by Andreas Hauptmann and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-11-21 with total page 595 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book successfully connects archaeology and archaeometallurgy with geoscience and metallurgy. It addresses topics concerning ore deposits, archaeological field evidence of early metal production, and basic chemical-physical principles, as well as experimental ethnographic works on a low handicraft base and artisanal metal production to help readers better understand what happened in antiquity. The book is chiefly intended for scholars and students engaged in interdisciplinary work.