Title: Escultura amerindia :
Authors: Sondereguer, César,
Date: 2020
Publisher: Corregidor,
Physical description: 323 pages : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm.
Language: Spanish
LC classification: E
Abstract: Having analyzed, on several occasions, the thoughts of Ancient America, I dare to formulate these opinions regarding what was thought in the Argentine Northwest. Here two parallel and simultaneous languages coexisted in the plastic work: the signal and / or ideographic and the aesthetic-plastic. Both unhinge the ideological-mythical and express the religious-poetic. The signal and ideographic was configured with formal designs of figurations or symbolic abstractions and presents the mythical-religious, cosmic and cosmovisive. The design established the aesthetic and the facticity the artisanal or artistic. The plastic fact that has been determined today by the theory. The design named the mythical entity. Thinking was magical and established the causality and content of the entity: that was the foundation of iconography. Several types of vessels were made in series and supported mythical-religious images. Such images are unique and feature gods; therefore they are transcendent. Calling them decoration is fallacious and insulting. Creating organized forms is a function of an aesthetic. In this sense The cult work, for the most part, can be shown that its formal content has been composed harmoniously. The plastic work was volitional and necessary as a mythical-religious, signal, ideographic and aesthetic sacred work, which always configures for those peoples a new cosmic entity conjured. Thus he gave a hopeful sense to the daily reality, full of continuous terrifying incidents. With more than a century and a half of pre-Columbian research, it seems that a sensible interdisciplinarity between historical-anthropological and philosophical-aesthetic research has never been proposed. The scarce bibliography on the plastic work only points out historical objects with redundant and trivial descriptions without the depth that a metaphysical entity requires. Opinions do not perceive designs, plastic genres and their morphological styles as such. It is necessary to differentiate our European cultural formation with respect to the study of the various Amerindian aesthetics because it is essential to educate about the particular configuration of the works, their contents and expressions. The need for an iconographic classification is axiomatic, it does not require proof. The need for an iconological interpretation is obvious and of vital importance: it must try to "dishide" immanence.
Subject headings (LCSH): America--Antiquities.; Catalogs.; Indian sculpture--America--Catalogs.; Indian sculpture--America.; Indians of Central America--Antiquities; Indians of Central America--Antiquities--Catalogs.; Indians of North America--Antiquities; Indians of North America--Antiquities--Catalogs.; Indians of South America--Antiquities; Indians of South America--Antiquities--Catalogs.