Waterweavers: A Chronicle of Rivers, edited by José Roca and Alejandro Martín
José Roca and Alejandro Martín, editors
Featured in the 2014 New York Times Gift Guide
The exhibition catalogue, Waterweavers: A Chronicle of Rivers, features a selection of visual and textual narratives about Colombian rivers across time, including an essay by the co-curators addressing the river in contemporary Colombian visual and material culture, illustrations of works by the seventeen artists in the exhibition, and excerpts from literary and historical texts, many published for the first time in English, by such acclaimed Colombian authors as Fernanado Zalamea, Tomás Gonzalez, Héctor Abad, José Eustasio Rivera, Gabriel García Márquez, and Alfredo Molano. Renowned graphic designer Irma Boom designed the book.
Table of Contents
Foreword
Susan Weber
Preface
Nina Stritzler-Levine
Waterweavers: The River in Contemporary Colombian Visual and Material Culture
Jose Roca
A Chronicle of Rivers
Alejandro Martin
N.N.N.
Fernando Zalamea
The Shapes of Water
selected poems from Manglares by Tomas Gonzalez
Rio Amazonas
In this river there is nothing but despair
from the Letter from Lope de Aguire, Rebel, to King Philip of Spain
Susana Mejia
Amazonia
Hector Abad Faciolince
Rio Putumayo
Reading One River in the River
Alberto Baraya
Alberto Baraya
The Canoe, like a floating coffin, moved down the river from the Vortex
Jose Eustasio Rivera
Jorge Lizarazo
Rio Cahuinari
Looking with Words, Looking with Stories
Catalina Vargas Tovar and Adel Rodriguez
Abel Rodriguez
Rio Magdalena
Rio Grande de la Magdalena from the Epitome of the Conquest of the New Kingdom Granada
Alonso de Santa Cruz
Nicolas Consuegra
Magdalena, father of waters, one of the greatest rivers of the world, was only an illusion of memory from Love in the Time of Cholera
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
David Consuegra
Decorative Openwork in Pre-Columbian Indigenous Metalwork
David Consuegra
Tangrama
Rio Cauca
Clemencia Echeverri
The Cauca, Death Downriver
Elizabeth Yarce
Marcelo Villegas
Alvaro Catalan de Ocon
Water is neither good nor bad
a Guambiano Oral Narrative
Laguna de Guatavita
El Dorado, the Legend of Guatavita Lake from The Chibcha People Prior to the Spanish Conquest
Vincente Restrepo
Ceci Arango
Lucy Salamanca
Fair Trade Design
Gabriele Sossalla, Ludovico Gualzetti, Benno Simma, and Lucy Salamanca
Juan Fernando Herran
Rio Bogota
What Was Once the Fall
Antonio Caballero
Carol Young
Olga de Amaral
The House of My Imagination
Olga de Amarel
Rio Rancheria
A Historical and Ethnographic Look at the Rancheria River Basin
Weilder Guerra Curvelo
Monika Bravo
Mother of water
as told by Arhuaco storyteller Nukaki-Suka
Maria Isabel Rueda
La Gata from the Upriver: Between the Cocaine and the Gold
Alfredo Molano
About the Authors
Checklist at Exhibition
Selected Exhibition and Publication History
Bibliography
Sources, Permissions, and Photo Credits
Contributors
Hector Abad Faciolince
Novelist
Alberto Baraya
Columbian Artist
Antonia Caballero
Journalist, art critic, and cartoonist
David Consuegra
Artist
Lope de Aguirre
Spanish conquistador
Olga de Amaral
Artist
Alonso de Santa Cruz
Royal historian and cosmographer
Jose Eustasio Rivera
Novelist, lawyer, and poet
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Nobel Prize winning author
Tomas Gonzalez
Novelist, poet, and short story writer
Weildler Guerra Curvelo
Anthropologist
Alejandro Martin Maldonado
Curator and editor
Alfredo Molano
Social researcher and journalist
Vincente Restrepo
Ninteenth-century biographer, essayist, and journalist
Jose Roca
Curator
Abel Rodriquez
Member of the Nonuya indigenous people from the Araracuara region
Lucy Salamanca
Designer
Catalina Vargas Tovar
Philosopher, tanslator, and editor
Elizabeth Yarce
Journalist
Fernando Zalamea
Mathematician and philosopher
Other Details
ISBN
978-0-9824680-1-2
Dimensions
8 1/4 x 6 1/4 x 1 3/4 in.
Page count
400 pages, color illustrations
Publication date
April 10, 2014
Binding
Paperback
