Research Catalog

Title

Potosí : colonial treasures and the Bolivian city of silver / Pedro Querejazu and Elizabeth Ferrer, curators.

Publication

New York : Americas Society Art Gallery in association with Fundación BHN, La Paz, 1997.

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Additional Authors

• Querejazu, Pedro
• Ferrer, Elizabeth
• Americas Society. Art Gallery
• Fundación BHN

Description

152 p. : ill. (some col.); 30 cm.

Alternative Title

• Colonial treasures and the Bolivian city of silver
• Bolivian city of silver

Subject

• Art, Colonial > Potosí > Exhibitions
• Painting, Colonial > Potosí > Exhibitions
• Silverwork, Colonial > Potosí > Exhibitions
• Silver mines and mining > Potosí > Exhibitions
• Santos (Art) > Bolivia
• Art, Colonial > Potosí
• Silverwork, Colonial > Potosí
• Silver mines and mining > Potosí
• Potosí (Bolivia)

Genre/Form

• exhibition catalogs.
• Exhibition catalogs
• Catalogues d'exposition.

Note

• "This catalogue has been published on the occasion of an exhibition organized by the Americas Society, New York and Fundación BHN, La Paz. Exhibition dates, Americas Society Art Gallery, New York, New York, September 24-December 14, 1997"--T.p. verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 149-152).

Language (note)

• Text in English and Spanish; captions in English.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Potosí : social dynamics, labor, and mining technology / Laura Escobari -- Potosí : urbanism, architecture, and the sacred image of the environment / Teresa Gisbert -- Painting in Potosí / José de Mesa -- A world in wood in the city of the silver mountain : wooden sculpture and architecture in Potosí / Pedro Querejazu -- Silver : from the cerro rico to the spaces of daily life / José de Mesa.

ISBN

1879128160 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^97074730^

OCLC

• 38814619
• SCSB-10295791

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library