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Hace 10 horas · Abstract. “Field of corn” enters media res into the village of Santa Clara del Cobre shortly after the death of the village elder, patriarch, and renowned coppersmith, Maestro Pérez Ornelas, my primary mentor-teacher. I bring the reader into the ecological and performative landscape of Santa Clara to meet the artisans whose stories form ...
Hace 10 horas · It was this test of tradition which made the “techniques of the body” effective, declared Mauss ( 2006b [1935]: 82–83) 17 near the year of maestro Jesús’ birth. Ten years later, in 1936, Benjamin ( 2007: 217–252) wrote that it was the end of tradition through mechanical reproduction which had destroyed the aura of art.
Hace 10 horas · This gathering of bodily memory and positioning is also a prime activity and source of orientation and effectivity in the world and practice of the coppersmith. This is how, as we have seen earlier, Maestro Jesús orientates his body and hammer to work while his faculties of sight, touch, and balance diminish.
Hace 10 horas · There is a wonderful photo of Maestro Jesús’ father taken in 1943, when he was about 35 years old and his son, about fourteen years old. Don Bernardo Pérez Farfán has a shock of black hair, and gazes steadily into the camera without presumption, nor a smile, wearing what appears to be a white manta shirt.
Hace 10 horas · In Maestro Jesús’ workshop performances of making and the performance of made things are bound together by an ethos of crafting “goodness” rather than beauty. Maestro Jesús defined the good copper piece as one that is “well-made,” not “beautiful.”. Sure, firm hammering and even strokes are required to create the “perfect ...
Hace 10 horas · En conferencia de prensa, acompañado por Octavio Ocampo Córdova, presidente del PRD estatal; por Araceli Saucedo Reyes, candidata al Senado de la República; por Ale Velázquez, candidata a diputada federal por el distrito de Pátzcuaro; Martha Lilia Cortés, candidata a diputada federal por el distrito de Zacapu y Marco Antonio Lagunas, candidato a diputado local en Uruapan, así como ...
Hace 10 horas · The annual copper fair and national competition comprise multiple performances of (re)presentation and (re)production in which the coppersmith artisans assert agency, negotiate politics, and cultivate marketplaces. These performances recalibrate self-representation, community coherence, identity, and class assertion.
