Download full set of Esquivel's images from
these options (check your "downloads" after clicking)
... as an Acrobat file (easiest way
for most people to view - 2 MB .pdf)
...
as an editable .ppt Powerpoint presentation with liturgies (5 MB .ppt)
...
as low resolution
Powerpoint (OK for screen but not for printing - 0.5 MB .ppt)
New 2017:
... as a .zip file of 10 MB .jpg files (download, then open to a
folder - 146 MB)
... and for specialist use, .jpg image details in a .zip file (75 MB)
[Notice: Zip files are
now considered insecure. Some browsers block them. On Chrome, copy the link,
paste in, then tell it to "keep"]
New 2023:
... now scanned original
booklet with liturgy by Maria Graf-Huber (40 pages, 9.3 MB .pdf)
Also
available - Dom Helder Camara's "Spiral of Violence
The Way of the Cross from Latin America,
1492 - 1992
(Chemin de Croix en provenance d'Amérique
Latine)
(Imagenes
de la cruz, por Perez Esquivel)
(Imagens da Via Sacra de Esquivel)
What is Liberation Theology?
(Qu'est-ce que la "théologie de la
libération?")
(Que
es la teologia de la liberacion?)
(O
que é teologia da libertação?)
English
Français Español
Português
About copyright © freedom
In English
"What is liberation theology?" In 1992 a remarkable artistic
answer to this question was given to the world by the Argentinean Nobel Peace
Prize laureate, Adolfo
Pérez Esquivel. True to the liberation spirit of "contextual
theology," he contextualised the traditional "Stations of the
Cross" into the contemporary world and especially that of his native Latin
America. Thus, for example, the "Roman" soldiers are armed with guns
in a modern city environment.
Esquivel produced his iconic paintings to mark the 500th anniversary of the
brutal colonisation of the Americas by Europe. His images were widely circulated
by Catholic Church relief agencies, but since 1992, they seem to have fallen
into obscurity. They were produced as both posters and on 35 mm photographic
slides for projection. From what I can see, nobody seems to have thought of
scanning these and putting them on the web.
With the kind help of friends at Queens University Belfast, I have now been
able to do this. The images, together with a commentary that I have developed from earlier versions of
what was produced in 1992, can be found at the above links either as Powerpoint
(.ppt) or Acrobat (.pdf) files. Choose the Acrobat option if your computer does
not have Powerpoint. As of 2008 a low-resolution Powerpoint option has been
added - only half a MB filesize. In addition, the
Powerpoint version contains the original full liturgies to each slide by
Maria Graf-Huber. These will be found in the Notes section, which can be viewed
by looking at the slides in either Normal or Outline view.
If you want to pass the link for this file on to friends, or create website
links to it for the benefit of others, it is probably best that you do so to this
page. Its URL is www.alastairmcintosh.com/general/1992-stations-cross-esquivel.htm
(all in lower case, and watch the spelling!)
Best wishes / Amities,
Alastair McIntosh, Scotland / Ecosse
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En français:
Qu'est-ce que la "théologie de la libération?" En 1992,
une réponse remarquablement artistique était donnée par Adolfo Pérez
Esquivel, prix nobel de la paix argentinien. Les liens ci-dessus peuvent
être ouverts dans Powerpoint (.ptt) et Acrobat (.pdf). Les textes sont
en anglais mais les images peuvent être copiées et utilisées dans un
contexte
En Español
Que es la teologia de la liberacion? En 1992, el premio Nobel de la
paz, Dr Adolfo Perez Esquivel, recibio una calurosa acogida por su obra
artisitica. Su coleccion de 15 pinturas, 'Estaciones de la Cruz'
fuerondistribuidas apmpliamente por las agencias Catolicas en Europa,
pero desde esa epoca han sido practicamente olvidadas. Reconociendo su
trememda importancia, he decidido poner estas imagenes en la web. Hay
dos enlaces para esta pagina. Uno de ellos permite ver las pinturas en
Acrobat pdf, y en el otro, pueden ser descargadas como para
presentaciones de Powerpoint ppt. Los comentarios estan basados en los
originales usados por las agencias Catolicas, pero bastante modificados
y actualizados por mi. Aunque este material esta presentado aqui en
ingles, las imagenes trascienden el lenguaje, y pueden ser adaptadas
para escribir otros comentarios y liturgias.
No Português
Imagens da Via Sacra
de Esquivel:
O que é teologia da libertação? Em 1992 uma resposta artística notável
foi dada por Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, o argentino vencedor do Prêmio
Nobel da Paz. Na ocasião, sua coleção de 15 pinturas, chamada “Via
Sacra”, foi amplamente distribuída pelas agências de ajuda da igreja
católica, mas desde então elas têm caído no esquecimento. Em
reconhecimento à sua imensa importância, eu agora as tenho escaneadas
e disponíveis na web. Há dois links nesta página. Um permite que as
pinturas sejam vistas no formato Acrobat.pdf, e o outro, num arquivo
muito maior, permite o download de uma apresentação de Powerpoint.ppt.
Os comentários que acompanham as figuras são baseados nos originais
usados pelas agências católicas, mas fortemente modificados e
atualizados por mim. Na seção
de notas da versão de Powerpoint a liturgia original também é dada.
Apesar de o material estar em inglês, as imagens transcendem a
linguagem, então você pode adaptá-las escrevendo seus próprios
comentários e liturgias. |
About Copyright
©
(added December 2023)
Every year I get emails asking for
permission to use these images. My understanding is that Esquivel
intends them to be freely used in the spirit of love in which they were
intended. I have written to him to establish this, and also communicated
via third parties. He has not replied directly (perhaps languange
issues), but he has certainly never declined. I came by the images in
1992 when I served (as the only non-Catholic, being a Quaker) on the
Management Committee of the Scottish Catholic International Aid Fund (SCIAF).
The images were distributed that year to Catholic relief agencies across
Europe, both as 35mm projector slides and large (I think A2 size)
posters as well as an accompanying booklet. There was no sense of them
being under copyright control if used in the spirit that is clearly
intended. On the contrary, SCIAF's education department did all it could
to get them out and being used far and wide. However, for the
reassurance of any organisations that might be nervous in this copyright
sensitive age, if your church or other organisation feels it needs to
acknowledge somebody, then given that I had the images digitised then
say something like: "Used courtesy of Alastair McIntosh". Here is a
link to an article in the National Catholic Reporter about Esquivel
and these slides, including a link to this page. Remember: there was a
reason why Jesus never copyrighted the beatitudes. There is no copyright
in the community of heaven.
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View
Esquvel's images in anAcrobat file (2MB .pdf)
...
or download as an editable Powerpoint presentation with liturgies (5MB .ppt)
...
download as low resolution
Powerpoint (OK for screen but not for printing) (0.5 MB .ppt)
Also
available now - Dom Helder Camara's "Spiral of Violence"
and
Audio download
of Fr. Gustavo Gutiérrez's lectures in Scotland, 1995
Reflection:
"Sometimes
when I walk the streets of Glasgow I see old women passing by, bowed down with
shopping bags, and I ask myself: 'What force made this woman what she is? What
is her history?' It is the holiness of the person we have lost, the holiness
of life itself, the inexplicable mystery and wonder of it, its strangeness,
its tenderness."
From
an essay by Iain Crichton Smith of the Isle of Lewis, Real People in a Real
Place, in his essay collection,
Towards
the Human, Macdonald Publishers (Lines Review Edition (also, Saltire
Publications)), 1986, pp. 13-70).
14 February 2024
www.AlastairMcIntosh.com
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