Coming up next Tuesday, new book by Marceles Daconte

Next Tuesday, Feb. 1 at 7:00pm, the Museum of Modern Art will unveil the second edition of the book entitled The Resources of Imagination: Visual Art of the Colombian Caribbean, by writer and cultural researcher Eduardo Marceles Daconte.[1]

The book outlines a historic profile of the plastic arts in the Colombian Caribbean starting with the pre-Hispanic legacy, the colonial period and the Republic era, stressing on the trends and the key figures that left their footprints on the Caribbean geography from the second half of the 20th century.

The author wanted to unravel the processes that have shaped our cultural tradition, based on a selection of artists whose artworks –from his own standpoint- have contributed to define the esthetic personality of the Colombian Caribbean. The Resources of Imagination: Visual Arts of the Colombian Caribbean (second edition) is a hardcover 280-page book illustrated with 475 full-color recreations on gloss paper. It includes historic and critical essays that delve into the development of all main artistic expression, such as painting, sculpturing, photography, graphic and those conceptual proposals in the eighth Colombian provinces bathed by the Caribbean Sea, as well as individual profiles that underscore the contributions made by the most outstanding Caribbean artists to Colombia’s cultural heritage.

The current edition has been updated by the author from a research viewpoint as compared to the book put out in 2010.

Colombian writer and researcher Eduardo Marceles Daconte has a degree in Humanities at the University of New York and a Master’s degree in Arts at the Center for Latin American Studies of the University of California (Berkeley, USA), with specialization in Latin America cultural history, the visual arts and literature. He’s been a professor of performing arts, literature and art history of Latin America with universities and colleges in Colombia, China, Spain and the U.S.

Museum of Modern Art in Bogota, Calle 24, no. 6-00