Abstract

VALDEZ, Ana Rosa  and  MORAN CADENA, Guillermo. Landscape/Territory Imaginaries of the jungle in the visual arts (Ecuador: 1907-2019). Índex [online]. 2020, n.9, pp.190-214. ISSN 2477-9199.  https://doi.org/10.26807/cav.v0i09.346.

The following article depicts the curatorial texts that accompanied the exhibition “Paisaje/Territorio. Imaginarios de la selva en las artes visuales” (Ecuador: 1907-2019), held at the Museo Antropológico y de Arte Contemporáneo (MAAC) in Guayaquil, from August 29 to November 24, 2019. The exhibition had five thematic cores that constitute a journey through the different imaginaries of the jungle in the history of art produced in Ecuador: "Colonial survivals", "Magic jungle, lost paradise", "An imaginary border", "The jungle and the ecological debates", and "The jungle on the border between art and activism".

Keywords : Ecuadorian art; Amazon region; Art history; Imaginaries; Latin America Art; Amazon Rainforest.

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