Title: Historia natural y política : conocimientos y representaciones de la naturaleza americana /
Authors: Nieto Olarte, Mauricio.; Rodríguez, Carlos Alberto.; Roca, José.; Rodríguez, Carlos Alberto; Biblioteca Luis-Angel Arango.
Publisher: Banco de la República, Red de Bibliotecas y Unidad de Artes y Otras Colecciones,
Year: 2008
Subjects: Natural history Latin America History Exhibitions.; Botany Latin America History Exhibitions.; Plants in art Exhibitions; Indians of South America Science Amazon River Valley Exhibitions.
Abstract: Exhibition under the general curatorship of Mauricio Nieto aimed at examining how the Europeans represented and scientifically studied the natural resources and the native population of the Americas. The exhibition includes documents, books and historic images, along a series of botanical images done by Abel Rodríguez, a Nonuya Indian author of the graphic description with annotations of hundreds of plants and trees from the Amazonian region accompanied by a selection of contemporary artwork, mostly from the holdings of the Collection of Art of the Banco de la República. The exhibition celebrates the bicentennial of the death of Jose Celestino Mutis (b. Spain 1732-1808) and in commemoration of the Royal Botanical Expedition he lead in Colombia in 1783.