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Description:

Photograph in square format. In a big long shot, Tomás Lago and ten young students randomly ordered: six women and five men in a narrow land alley. There are tiled houses at the sides and a hill with trees at the back. Among the students, Roberto Díaz Castillo, Tomás Lago’s assistant, and Ida González, can be identified.

Context:

The image is part of a Folk Art field trip to Chillán carried out by Tomás Lago in 1956. Specifically to Quinchamalí, to apply a survey to the potters in the area because of the lack of a bibliography and unfinished research about folk ceramics. For this reason, Tomás Lago carried out a study published in the Art magazine of the Bellas Artes school of the Universidad de Chile, titled Cerámicas de Quinchamalí (Quinchamalí Ceramics) in 1958.

Subjects:
Chile, Outreach, Quinchamalí, Research and Teaching, Tomás Lago