Teresa Gisbert
Teresa Gisbert | |
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 Teresa Gisbert, 2007 | |
| Born | Teresa Gisbert Carbonell November 30, 1926 La Paz, Bolivia |
| Occupation | Architect, art historian |
| Nationality | Bolivian |
Teresa Gisbert Carbonell de Mesa (born 1926) is a Bolivian architect and art historian. She specializes in the history of the Andean region.
Biography
Teresa Gisbert Carbonell was born on 11 November 1926 in La Paz, Bolivia. Her family emigrated from Spain. She earned a bachelor's degree in the history of art in Spain and the United States from the Higher University of San Andrés in 1950.[1] Gisbert married José de Mesa in 1950. They had four children: Carlos, Andrés, Isabel and Teresa Guiomar.[2] She taught Bolivian culture and art history at the Higher University of San Andrés from 1954 to 1970 and in 1972 and 1975.[1]
She and her husband were awarded Guggenheim Fellowships in 1958 and 1966 to conduct research on colonial art.[1]
Gisbert was the director of the National Art Museum in La Paz from 1970 to 1976. She was president of the Bolivian Society for History from 1983 to 1984. She directed the Bolivian Cultural Institute from 1985 to 1989 and was president of the International Council on Monuments and Sites in Bolivia from 1986 to 1992.[3]
Gisbert was visiting scholar at Getty Research Institute for the History of Art and the Humanities from 1990 to 1991 and from 1993 to 1994.[3]
Selected works
- With José de Mesa
- Historia de la pintura Cuzqueña (History of Painting in Cuzco, 1962)
- Holguín y la pintura vicereinal en Bolivia (Holguín and Viceregal Bolivian Painting, 1977)
- Independent works
- Literatura virreinal en Bolivia (1968)
- Iconografía y mitos indíginas en el arte (Indigenous Iconography and Myths in Art, 1980)
- Arte textil y mundo Andino (Textile Art and the Andean World, 1987)
- Manual de historia de Bolivia (Handbook of Bolivian History, 1994)
- El Paraíso de los pájaros parlantes. La imagen del otro en la cultura andina (1999)
References
- ^ a b c Salek, Fabiola Fernández (2001). "Teresa Gisbert Carbonell de Mesa". Notable Twentieth-century Latin American Women: A Biographical Dictionary (1st ed.). Westport, Conn. [u.a.]: Greenwood Press. pp. 114–118. ISBN 978-0-313-31112-3.
- ^ "Teresa Gisbert Carbonell" (in Spanish). Periódico Digital de Investigación sobre Bolivia. Retrieved 20 October 2014.
- ^ a b "Gisbert Carbonell de Mesa, Teresa (1926–)". Dictionary of Women Worldwide: 25,000 Women Through the Ages.