The Voices of Silence (Pre-Columbian America)
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We learn that writing marks the boundary between history and prehistory understanding that in America, before the fifteenth century, there was no "civilization" for missing the alphabetical language. But this is only one of the forms of language. Indeed, only a fraction of writing ́s history has been alphabetical. The Phoenician alphabet, the basis of Western culture, comes from the first millennium BC; cuneiform writing on clay tablets in Mesopotamia existed thousand years before. Further back, egyptian hieroglyphs were the form of writing, like today and for thousands of years the graphics strokes of Chinese and Japanese languages. But In the West, just from the nineteenth century, alphabetic literacy encountered with massive non-alphabetic forms of communication: photography (1830), film (1890) and television (1950).
The literary essay with the images that follow take us to look at an epoch without alphabetical writing but with amounted knowledge. The proposal is to look into America when the current national and geopolitical borders did not exist, when women and men daily recreated the utilitarian, symbolic and ritual function of the clay, to appreciate through the voices of silence -the ancient name of sculpture- the knowledge hidden behind the art and history of precolumbian pottery.
AlejandroTriana
Alejandro Triana is a Colombian attorney passionate for history and visual communication. He designed and carried out the visual documentation for the Archaeological Museum Casa del Marqués de San Jorge of Bogotá, Colombia; part of his photographic work was published in the book collection Arte de la Tierra (1988-1992, 9 vols.). His fine art archival project and experience was published as a proposal for electronic documentation of cultural patrimony objects in Colombia (1994, ISBN 958-9003-70-02). At the Law and Political Science’s Faculty at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia he dictated his course “Law and Communication” between 1994/1999; a summary of his lectures was published in “Pensamiento Jurídico” (Juridical Thought) in the Faculty’s Magazine (1996, ISSN 0122-1108). Since 2000 Alejandro Triana with Sara Urazán, Ceramist and Psychologist expert in pedagogy of audiovisual language (Cerámica: Imagen & conocimiento, Universidad El Bosque,1999), are preparing their visual collection and manuscripts for the digital project "Colombia preColombina", for the social, educational and academic appropiation of this cultural heritage.
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The voices of silence
Pre-Columbian America
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Table of Contents
Preface The transformation of language
preColombia Archaeological zones (map)
Visual Collection pre-columbian Colombia
Nature
People
Women and Pottery
Essay Pre-Columbian America
Bibliography
Preface
"... when he had made heaven and earth, and
still no plants, nor the grass had grown because of
had not sent rain, nor had anyone who work it on,
then God formed the man from the earth itself,
and with a breath gave him life… "
Genesis
The transformation of language
We are all crossing right now the frontier of five centuries of typographic domain replaced gradually by magical electronic devices. We live with anxiety of another age of language’s transformation because of the change