Research Catalog

Title

The portable universe = El universo en tus manos : thought and splendor of Indigenous Colombia / Julia Burtenshaw, Héctor García Botero, Diana Magaloni, María Alicia Uribe Villegas ; with contributions by Luis Cayón, Francisco Chimontero Nuibita Dingula, Juan Fernando Cobo Betancourt, Tom Cummins, Wade Davis, Ana María Falchetti, Santiago Giraldo, Ariel James, Carlos David Londoño Sulkin, Carlos E. López, Santiago Muñoz Arbeláez, Carlo Emilio Piazzini Suárez.

Author

Burtenshaw, Julia

Publication

• Los Angeles, CA : Los Angeles County Museum of Art ; New York, NY : DelMonico Books/D.A.P., [2022]
• ©2022

Items in the Library & Off-site

Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

• García Botero, Héctor
• Magaloni Kerpel, Diana
• Uribe Villegas, María Alicia
• Cayón, Luis
• Nuibita Dingula, Francisco Chimontero
• Cobo Betancourt, Juan Fernando
• Cummins, Tom, 1949-
• Davis, Wade
• Falchetti, Ana María
• Giraldo, Santiago
• James, Ariel
• Londoño Sulkin, Carlos David
• López Castaño, Carlos Eduardo
• Muñoz Arbeláez, Santiago
• Piazzini, Emilio
• Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
• Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
• Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.
• Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal.
• Museo del Oro (Banco de la República)

Description

343 pages : color illustrations, map; 30 cm

Summary

Spanning major pre-Columbian cultures of Colombia, and featuring artworks made in this region--from cast gold pendants and ceramic effigies to modern Indigenous stools, barkcloths and featherworks--The Portable Universe/El Universo en tus Manos: Thought and Splendor of Indigenous Colombia recasts how we approach ancient Colombian art. Featuring a cover design with tip-on images, the book is arranged so as to envelop the works with life and meaning and guide readers to different ways of understanding the world and our place in it. It includes contributions by Indigenous Colombians, historians, ethnographers, archaeologists, and art historians. The Portable Universe/El Universo en tus Manos recaptures some of the knowledge of Indigenous American cultures and presents new historical findings, drawing heavily on contemporary Indigenous understandings to evoke a worldview in which these ancient pieces make sense and have power today.

Alternative Title

• Universo en tus manos : thought and splendor of Indigenous Colombia
• Golden worlds, the portable universe of Indigenous Colombia.
• Univers au creux des mains, pensées et splendeurs de la Colombie autochtone.

Subject

• Indians of South America > Colombia > Antiquities > Exhibitions
• Indigenous art > Colombia > Exhibitions
• Indian art > Colombia > Exhibitions
• Indian mythology > Colombia > Exhibitions
• Art, Colombian > Exhibitions
• Antiquities
• Art, Colombian
• Indian art
• Indian mythology
• Indians of South America > Antiquities
• Indigenous art
• Colombia > Antiquities > Exhibitions
• Colombia > History > Exhibitions
• Colombia

Genre/Form

• Exhibition catalogs.
• History.

Note

• Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name held at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, May 29-October 2, 2022; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, presented as "Golden Worlds: The Portable Universe of Indigenous Colombia," November 6, 2022-April 23, 2023; and Montréal Museum of Fine Arts, presented as "L'univers au creux des mains: pensées et splendeurs de la Colombie autochtone," May 29-October 8, 2023.
• "This exhibition was organized by Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Museo del Oro, Banco de República, Bogotá"--Colophon.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-332) and index.

Call Number

N6351.2.I53

ISBN

• 9781636810225
• 1636810225

LCCN

2021944423

OCLC

• 1295405656
• on1295405656
• SCSB-14253070

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries