La maldición de Nemur

The book offers us a view of the art of the Ishir people from the remote region of Gran Chaco in Paraguay, its most symbolic artistic manifestations and the fields of indigenous culture where the splendor form has its proper place. The research leads to a place of varying dimensions which suggests the complex wealth of Ishir culture. Ticio Escobar defends the need to recognize the right of indigenous symbols those strange ways that stubbornly survive the onslaught of the national society and reconsiders our interpretation of art through an exploration of the rhetoric of myth and of the intensification of the effects of rituals. The book "The Curse of Nemur" where the author explains in detail the social function of art and the Ishir mythology, was originally published in 1999 in Asunción (Paraguay) by the Centro de Artes Visuales of the Museo del Barro.