Title: America, land of horsemen :
Authors: Fernández de Calderón, Cándida,; Fomento Cultural Banamex,; Palacio de Iturbide,; Centro Cultural Palacio La Moneda (Chile),
Date: 2018
Publisher: Citibanamex :
Physical description: 618 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles, maps, portraits ; 33 cm
Language: English
LC classification: S
Abstract: The editorial and curatorial project is the outcome of a five-year research work carried out by Fomento Cultural Banamex, A.C., which was led by Cándida Fernández de Calderón, under Guadalupe Jiménez Codinachœs curatorship, along with researchers Roberto Vega, from Argentina; Celina Rodríguez and Alejandra Serrano, from Chile; and Claudia Balarín, from Perú. More than 500 pieces from eight countries (Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Venezuela, Spain, the United States, Mexico and Peru) were collected from over 30 museums and cultural centers, as well as 40 private collections. The display includes paintings, photographs, historic documents, movie fragments and musical and literary pieces, clothing and popular art, and also a life-size representation of eight horse riders from several Latin American countries: a Mexican charro, a cowboy and prairie Indian from the United States, a Peruvian challan, a Chilean huaso, mapuches from Chile and Argentina, a llanero from Venezuela and Colombia, and a gaucho from Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay and Brasil.
Contents: Forwards / Ernesto Torres Cantú -- Coordinator's forward / Candida Fernández de Calderón -- Mundo Novo. An introduction / Guadalupe Jiménez Cordinach -- I. From the Old to the New Continent / Guadalupe Jiménez Cordinach -- II. Saints in horseback: devotional geography -- III. "You might see knights, there and they are very handsome" Royal Fraternity of Mounted Knights / Guadalupe Jiménez Cordinach -- IV. Horseman in the Americas as national stereotypes: Gauchos, Huasos, Chalanes, Llaneros, Charros and Cowboys, Nineteenth and Twentieth centuries / Ricardo Perez Montfort -- V. The Mexican Charro: grandeur of a centuries-long tradition / Guadalupe Jiménez Cordinach -- VI. When "El Norte" became The West: from vaquero to cowboy / Alicia Maria González -- VII. The extraordinary horsemen of the Plains / Cuauhtémoc Velasco Avila -- VIII. Peruvian horsemen: chalanes, qorilazos and morochucos / Claudia Balarín -- IX. The Huaso: the rural horseman of Chile / Karen Donoso Fritz and Maria Celina Rodriguez Olea -- X. The Mapuche horsemen / Karen Donoso Fritz and Maria Celina Rodriguez Olea -- XI. Indomitable centaurs: The Llaneros of Colombia and Venezuela / Héctor Publio Pérez Ángel -- XII. The Gaucho / Roberto Raúl Vega -- XIII. On horseback through the past: historic riders / Guadalupe Jiménez Cordinach -- XIV. Horses and horsemen of the Americas in 19th and 20th century Art / Rodrigo Gutierrez Viñuales -- XV. The horseman and horse in folk art / Candida Fernández de Calderón and José Hernández Reyes -- XVI. "No hill is too steep for me and no nag holds me back" : notes on horsemen's music and the acoustic imaginary / Ricardo Miranda -- XVII. The horseman in dance / Maria Cristina Aguirre Cristiani -- XVIII. A brief alphabet of the centaur / Vicente Quirarte -- XIX. Riding in the light of memory / Alejandra Gomez Camacho.
Notes: Published on the occasion of the exhibition organized by Fomento Cultural Banamex and held April 18 to October 2018 at Palacio de Cultura Citibanamex (Palacio de Iturbide) and later at the Centro Cultural La Moneda, in Santiago de Chile, from November 2018 to March 2019. Issued in slipcase.
Subject headings (LCSH): Horsemen and horsewomen in art--Exhibitions.; Horsemen and horsewomen--America--Exhibitions.; Horsemen and horsewomen--America.; Horses--America--History--Exhibitions.; Horses--History--America.