Historia natural y política
Subtitle: conocimientos y representaciones de la naturaleza americana
By: Mauricio Nieto Olarte, Carlos Rodríguez, José Roca.
Contributors: Rodríguez, Carlos Alberto.; Roca, José.; Biblioteca Luis-Angel Arango.
Publisher: Banco de la República; Universidad de los Andes; Universidad Eafit
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Bogotá, D.C
Language: spa
Number of pages: 93
ISBN-13: 9789586642033
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
Genres: Exhibitions
Description: 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.
Notes: Catalog of an exhibition held at the Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango,Bogotá, Colombia, from Sept. 9, 2008 to January, 2009.