Product Description:
Helps you to understand Colombian life through its most characteristic crafts objects. This book sets out to display traditional garments, jewellery, and ornaments of the indigenous cultures of Colombia in joyous and unprecedented abandon.
About the Author:
Liliana Villegas, sensitive connoisseur of popular traditions, knows, as very few people do, the country's natural materials and how the people of Columbia have transformed them throughout time. Her first work in this area was the book entitled, Iwouya (Like the Stars that Announce the Arrival of the Rains), which uncovers and explains the Guajira through its weaving (1982). Her 1988 contribution, Artefactos, is a valuable rescuing of Viejo Caldas' regional artisan production. Her studies include degrees in Textiles at the Universidad de los Andes and Fine Arts at Parsons School of Design in New York, Paris and Japan. Delicious Tropical Fruits (1990), her latest effort, is one of the most successful books ever published in the country.
Benjamin Villegas (Bogota, 1948), has distinguished himself nationally as the editor par excellence of large format, illustrated books on the subjects related to Columbia's art, history, architecture, natural resources and applied arts. His broad and varied expertise is the result of twenty eight years of dedication to the publishing industry during which he has produced more than hundred works.
A graduate of the School of Architecture of the Universidad de los Andes and the Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano (Bogota) in Graphic Arts with experience in the visual media of television and cinema, he knows and manages the esthetics and material culture of his country based on solid criteria. His books, examples of the highest quality in graphic expression, have earned international acclaim. This work, of which he is both co-author and editor, is being released simultaneously in English by the renown New York publishing house, Rizzoli International, under the title of Artefactos, Columbian Crafts, from the Andes to the Amazon.
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