Andean history through art

Authors

  • Manuel Burga

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.36901/allpanchis.v13i17/18.1137

Keywords:

Andean history

Abstract

This brief epigraph is the text that accompanies a canvas from 1780, a year of rebellion and violence in the southern Andes, where America is represented by a midwife who breastfeeds black and white children. The Indian children, the "own children", are represented abandoned and at the feet of this matron. The rescue and transmission of this short phrase, which communicates a whole way of seeing and feeling existence —past and present— in the Andean regions, shows the objectivity and beauty of a new way of analyzing and studying Andean history. The indigenous peasantry that did not have access to writing eagerly sought other means to communicate and to record their history.

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Published

1981-12-10

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