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The Potosi Principle

How Can We Sing the Song of the Lord in an Alien Land?

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This volume is published as part of the Potosí Principle research and exhibition project, spanning the beginning of modernity, a period of primitive accumulation of capital following the conquest of the Americas at the end of the fifteenth century, and compiling, as a catalogue for an exhibition with great theoretical depth, examples of colonial Andean painting and artworks by international artists invited to find and draw up correspondence between colonial art between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries and the contemporary world. The research looks to relate these fragments of closed history with conditions of artistic production today, the different sections dealing with themes such as the circulation of images, Hispanicity, the mixing of races and the original accumulation of capital.

Library

Year

2010

Language

English

Type

Exhibition Catalogue

Binding

Paperback

Format

Printed

Size

22,5 x 29 cm

Pages

304

ISBN

978-84-8026-426-6

NIPO

553-10-021-0

Edited by

Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König

Editorial line

Exhibitions

Authors

Alice Creischer, Max Jorge Hinderer, Andreas Siekmann (eds.), Sonia Abián, Luis Víctor Alemán Vargas, Edgar Arandia, John Barker, Matthijs de Bruijne, Christian von Borries, Roberto Choque Canqui, Anthony Davies, Chto delat, Elvira Espejo, Marcelo Expósito, Harun Farocki, León Ferrari, Tom Flynn, María Galindo, Isaías Griñolo, Gabriel Massuh, Eduardo Molinari, Fátima Olivarez, David Riff, Dmitry Vorobyev, Thomas Campbell