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Plá, Josefina

LC control no.n 50019736
Descriptive conventionsrda
LC classificationPQ8259.P53
Personal name headingPlá, Josefina
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Variant(s)Plá Guerra Galvani, María Josefina
Guerra Galvani, María Josefina Plá
Galvani, María Josefina Plá Guerra
See alsoCruz, Abel de la, 1903-1999
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Birth date1903-11-9
Death date1999-01-11
Place of birthCanary Islands
Place of deathAsunción (Paraguay)
AffiliationGrupo Arte Nuevo (Paraguay)
Centro Cultural Paraguayo Americano
Universidad Nacional de Asunción
Escuela Municipal de Arte Escénico (Paraguay)
Centro Arte Nuevo (Paraguay)
Museo Julián de la Herrería
Academia Paraguaya de la Lengua Española
Academia Paraguaya de la Historia
PEN Club del Paraguay
Instituto de Cultura Hispánica (Paraguay)
Sociedad Argentina de Escritores
Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas
Academia Hispanoamericana Rubén Darío
Profession or occupationJournalist Novelist Poet Art critic Playwright Historian Ceramicist
Found inHer La raíz y la aurora, 1960
Info. converted from 678, 2012-10-02 (b. 1909)
Portal Guarani website, May 18, 2020: (Josefina Plá; María Josefina Plá Guerra Galvany; born November, 9, 1903; died January 11, 1999)
   <http://www.portalguarani.com/519_josefina_pla.html>
Agencia de Información Paraguaya website, May 18, 2020: posted January 10, 2020 (Josefina Plá; born 1903 in Fuenteventura, Canary Islands, Spain; came to Paraguay as a young woman after marrying the ceramicist and painter Julián de la Herrería (Andrés Campos Cervera) and later became a widow; founded the Grupo Arte Nuevo in 1953 with Olga Blinder, Lilí del Mónico y José Laterza Parodi that supported the renewal of Paraguay art in academic post-impressionism; studied ceramics with her husband and later held her own exhibitions; professor who was the director of ceramic classes at the Centro Cultural Paraguayo-Americano (1946-1952); used the pseudonym Abel de la Cruz; journalist; novelist; poet; art critic; playwright; historian; author of Julián de la Herrería (Ed. Alcor, Asunción, 1962), El barroco hispano-guaraní (Sobretiro, Cuadernos Hispanoamericanos, Madrid 1964), El grabado en la Misiones (Cuadernos Hispanoamericanos, Madrid, 1965), Las artes plásticas paraguayas (Sobretiro de Anales del Instituto de Arte Americano e Investigaciones Estéticas, Buenos Aires, 1966), Las artesanías en el Paraguay (Ed. Librería Comuneros, Asunción, 1970), Historia y catálogo del Museo de Bellas Artes (Asunción 1970), La cerámica popular paraguaya (1976), El paisaje en la pintura paraguaya (Asunción 1985), and Aproximación a la imaginería popular paraguaya (Asunción, 1986); author of the chapter on Paraguay in the Enciclopedia del arte de América)
   <https://www.ip.gov.py/ip/conversatorio-sobre-la-vida-y-obra-de-josefina-pla-este-sabado/>
Gobierno de Canarias, Consejería de Educación, Universidades, Cultura y Deportes website, May 18, 2020: (Josefina Plá; born 1903 in Isla de Lobos; when she was three her family moved to penisular Spain where she spent her childhood and teenage years; moved to Paraguay with her husband, the Pargauayan artist Andrés Campo Cervera in 1927; the Universidad Nacional de Asunción gave her an honorary doctorate; one of the founders of the Escuela Municipal de Arte Escénico, the Centro Arte Nuevo, and the Museo Julián de la Herrería; miembro de número of the Academia Paraguaya de la Lengua Española and the Academia Paraguaya de la Historia; member of the PEN Club Paraguayo and the Instituto de Cultura Hispánica; miembro de honor of the Sociedad Argentina de Escritores (SADE), the Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas, and the Academia Hispanoamericana Rubén Darío; died 1999 in Paraguay; author of several works including La raíz y la aurora (1960))
   <http://www3.gobiernodecanarias.org/medusa/ecoescuela/escritorascanarias/?p=208>
Real Academia de la Historia (Spain) website, May 18, 2020: (Josefina Plá; María Josefina Plá Guerra Galvani; born November, 9, 1903 in Isla de Lobos, Fuerteventura, Las Palmas; died January 11, 1999 in Asunción, Paraguay; author; artist; critic; journalist; when she was three her family moved to penisular Spain where she spent her childhood and teenage years; moved to Paraguay with her husband, the Pargauayan artist Andrés Campo Cervera in 1927; author of several works including La raíz y la aurora (1960))
   <http://dbe.rah.es/biografias/17712/maria-josefina-pla-guerra-galvani>
Última Hora website, May 18, 2020: posted January 10, 2020 (Josefina Plá; born 1903; died 1999; author of several works including Las artes plásticas paraguayas)
   <https://www.ultimahora.com/rendiran-homenaje-josefina-pla-n2864150.html>
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