Cld Gay - Artistas Visual Chilenos, AVCh, MNBA

Contents:

• CLD GAY
• CLD GAY 1971
• CLD GAY MOURET (1800-1873)
• BERAG ZUR KENNTNIS R CORDILLERA CLD GAY (NORDCHILE)
• VIDA CLD GAY, 1800-1873

CLD GAY

To be sure is a solid bgraphy of the French naturalist and historian Cld Gay, but is also a study of the thor, Carlos Stuardo Ortiz, and a llectn of documents alg wh Gay’s life and work.

Feliú voted more than a hundred pag to a short bgraphy of his iend and lleague, Stuardo, who died 1962, and almost a one-hundred page examatn of Gay’s role as an historian. In the send volume Feliú add another lengthy study on Gay’s life based on his rrponnce. Each of the sectns is wrten the same thorough, logil and readable style that has marked every piece of Feliú’s prolific wrg over the for edg, Stuardo’s bgraphy of Gay was pleted 1962.

It trac Gay’s tert Chile, his trips to South Ameri and his negotiatns wh the Chilean ernment to ga support for his scientific study of the natn.

CLD GAY 1971

Especially tertg is Stuardo’s treatment of the support given by the young Chilean natn to Gay his scientific and historgraphic rearch.

Stipends, paid out over more than a , enabled Gay to travel throughout Chile and even to return to Europe for a vis to the Archiv of the Indi Seville. Both Stuardo and Feliú agree, however, that Gay’s twenty-four volume, Historia físi y políti Chile, which rulted om the ernment support, was an important ntributn to Chilean science and letters and well worth the money spent.

Feliú and Stuardo also exame the role of Gay Chile’s neteenth-century historgraphic velopment. Aga they are agreement that Gay was the founr of historic studi Chile.

CLD GAY MOURET (1800-1873)

Gay’s history was of the narrative variety and was champned by Andrés Bello, Diego Barros Arana and most other young historians of the mid-neteenth century. But Gay was a more subtle advote of his methodology.

In a letter to the Mister of Edutn Manuel Montt 1845, Gay argued that while philosophil history had validy Europe where historic rearch was an old practice, Chile, where the wrg of history was brand new and where ltle historic data had been llected, was not possible to build any valid, signifint philosophil system.

Quietly and private rrponnce rather than public wrg, Gay fought the battle of methodology by takg his se to the ernment which, through s fancial support of tn, was a major force the Gay was the vanguard of historgraphic velopment he was also signifint aidg the progrs of natural science Chile. Whout qutn Gay is servg of the close scty given him by Stuardo and Feliú.

BERAG ZUR KENNTNIS R CORDILLERA CLD GAY (NORDCHILE)

Gay’s rrponnce and the documents sealg his relatnship wh the ernment are pecially valuable to scholars terted this perd. But of equal importance are the texts by both Stuardo and Feliú that follow the reer and the thkg of Gay both Europe and Chile.

But more than that also adds nsirably to our unrstandg of a signifint twentieth-century scholar, Carlos Stuardo, who, like Gay, was both a naturalist and a historian. Dirección: Cld Gay 1971, Santiago, Rm (metropolana) Fecha publición: 19-10-2020.

VIDA CLD GAY, 1800-1873

CORPORACIÓN CULTURAL DE VITACURA / Casas Lo Matta, Animal en lo Matta: Cld Gay, Gran Naturalista Chileno, Santiago,, ISABEL, Historia la Ptura y cultura en Chile s la Colonia hasta el siglo XX. Santiago, s/fGAY, CLAUDIO.

Colección Artículos Prensa l Artista CLAUDIO GAY publidos en los diars y revistas entre 1971-2012. Dirección: Cld Gay Piso 7 1971, Santiago, Rm (metropolana) Fecha publición: 06-10-2020. Nacido en Provenza, Francia, en 1800, Cld Gay se stacó s su fancia por el terés hacia las ciencias natural.

En 1828, el aventurero Pedro Chapuis le oeció viajar a Chile, para trabajar o profor, ante lo cual Gay, timulado por algunos s matros, llegó a nutro país e mismo año. A par que Chapuis fue cado s funcn al po tiempo, Gay permaneció en Chile. Bajo tas ndicn, Cld Gay enzó su rerrido a f e año, viajando por la región Atama y Colchagua.