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- Title
Paint and Coloring Materials from the Brazilian Amazon Forest: Beyond Urucum and Jenipapo.
- Authors
Puglieri, Thiago Sevilhano; Maccarelli, Laura
- Abstract
The Brazilian Legal Amazon region is divided into at least 155 ethnic groups and has the largest concentration of Indigenous people globally. It represents one of the most extraordinary levels of human, cultural, and artistic diversity, but its material culture is one of the least well-studied. This is especially true in technical art history and conservation science, largely due to (1) the limited international awareness of the richness of materials and techniques used by these Indigenous people and (2) the limitations of knowledge access for many scientists to literature usually published in Portuguese within social sciences and humanities. One result is that these arts are marginalized within technical art history, conservation, and conservation science. To address this knowledge gap, the authors explore 70 materials—among them pigments, dyes, binding media, and varnishes—used for paint production and coloring processes, including syntheses. The authors facilitate research possibilities within technical art history, conservation, and conservation science by presenting data from historical texts from the 18th and 19th centuries and more recent scientific literature. The work aims to build a more global, inclusive, and decentralized vision of art history and to create a more pluralistic narrative of Indigenous art history from South America.
- Subjects
AMAZON River Region; SOUTH America; PAINT materials; INDIGENOUS art; ART history; ART conservation &; restoration; NARRATIVE art; INDIGENOUS peoples of South America
- Publication
Heritage (2571-9408), 2023, Vol 6, Issue 8, p5883
- ISSN
2571-9408
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/heritage6080309