Title: La Virgen del Cerro :
Authors: Mübig, Dietmar,; Ascarrunz, Beatriz,
Date: 2020.
Publisher: Universidad Católica Boliviana, Departamento de Cultura & Arte, Centro de Edición y Escritura :
Physical description: 417 pages, 1 folded leaf of plate : illustrations (chiefly color), map ; 24 cm.
Language: Spanish
LC classification: B
Abstract: The painting of the Virgen del Cerro, the Virgin in the Silver Mountain, from Potosí in Bolivia documents how local artists hid motifs from the Tradition of the Andes in images with Christian iconography during the colonial period. With this resistant practice, they saved parts of their own culture and at the same time created a hybrid image theology. Their most important elements are deciphered in the work with the help of approaches from postcolonial studies, image philosophy and ethnology. It becomes clear that the combination of European-Catholic elements of piety with concepts from the Andean cosmovision, such as the holy mountains or Mother Earth, still shapes Bolivian popular religiosity today. In conclusion, the author points out that this kind of Andeto theology is astonishingly topical in the face of current challenges such as the ecological crisis.
Contents: Prólogo -- Una misa para la VIrgen Tierra, pensamientos introductorios -- Notas preliminares -- Imagenes en lo cultural -- El cuadro de la virgen del cerro como iconografia incomparable -- La imagen de la Virgen del cerrocomo expresion de identidad doblemente codificada -- La imagen de la Virgen del cerro bajo la luz de la cosmovision andina -- El cuadro de la Virgen del cerro como expresion de teologia Andina -- Sobre actualidad duradera de la teologia hibrida desde Los Andes: una vision panorámica -- Bibliografia -- Anexo -- Glosario -- Tabla cronológica -- Mapa de la provincia de Charcas, sglos XVII y XVIII.
Notes: Includes glossary (pages 337-340). From the original dissertation in German: Ein kolonialzeitliches Marienbild aus Potosí als Zeugnis andiner Theologie (A colonial image of Mary from Potosí as a testimony to Andein theology) presented at the Faculty of Theology of the Katholischen Privat-Universitat Linz in 2018.
Subject headings (LCSH): Art, Andean--History.; Art.; Catholic Church--Bolivia--Potosí--History.; Christian art and symbolism--Bolivia--Potosí--History.; Christianity and other religions--Bolivia.; Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint--Art.; Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint--Devotion--Bolivia--Potosí--History.; Potosí (Bolivia)--Religion--History.