Hispanic & Latino

It's THE book on manga from YouTube's most popular art instruction Guru! There's more to manga than big, shiny eyes and funky hair. In these action-packed pages, graphic novelist Mark Crilley shows you step-by-step how to achieve an authentic manga...

In this classic survey, now updated and with full-colour images throughout, Edward Lucie-Smith introduces the art of Latin America from 1900 to the present day. He discusses in detail major figures such as Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo, as well as dozens...

This anthology considers how the Day of the Dead has been celebrated in visual art and culture, from the traditional and iconic illustrations of Manuel Manilla and Jose Posada to the paper cuts of Aaron Velasco Pacheco, folk art of the Linares family and...

A veritable folk hero in Latin America and Mexico's most important artist-along with his wife, painter Frida Kahlo-Diego Rivera (1886-1957) led a passionate life devoted to art and communism. After spending the 1910s in Europe, where he surrounded...

Amedeo Modigliani (1884-1920) moved to Paris as a 22-year-old art student and is regarded as probably the last true bohemien in Montmartre. The exhibition catalogue to mark the 100th anniversary of his death shows him for the first time as a leading...

Rewritten from cover to cover and updated to include the discoveries and new theories from the past decade and a half, this classic guide to the art of the ancient Maya is now illustrated in full colour throughout. World expert Mary Miller and her...

2023 Outstanding Book Award , National Association for Ethnic Studies Finalist, 2024 Charles Rufus Morey Book Award, College Art AssociationHow Latinx artists around the US adopted the medium of printmaking to reclaim the lands of the Americas...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486228549Author Jose PosadaFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 550gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781524762117Author Abby Clawson LowFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA Inc

This is the first book solely dedicated to the history, development, and present-day flowering of Chicana and Chicano visual arts. It offers readers an opportunity to understand and appreciate Chicana/o art from its beginnings in the 1960s, its...

Although Puerto Rican artists have always been central figures in contemporary American and international art worlds, they have largely gone unrecognized and been excluded from art history canons. Nuyorican and Diasporican Visual Art provides a critical...

A curated selection of key texts and artists' voices exploring US Latinx art and art history from the 1960s to the present. A Handbook of Latinx Art is the first anthology to explore the rich, deep, and often overlooked contributions that Latinx artists...

A curated selection of key texts and artists' voices exploring US Latinx art and art history from the 1960s to the present. A Handbook of Latinx Art is the first anthology to explore the rich, deep, and often overlooked contributions that Latinx artists...

The life and work of a celebrated multimedia artist, cultural and feminist theorist, and community organizer Amalia Mesa-Bains has garnered international recognition for multimedia installations that evoke the Chicana experience. This lively book...

The life and work of a celebrated multimedia artist, cultural and feminist theorist, and community organizer Amalia Mesa-Bains has garnered international recognition for multimedia installations that evoke the Chicana experience. This lively book...

Some might say that making art is an impulse all humans have, yet artist-as-occupation is tremendously difficult - only a few are able to find their way as an artist due to social oppression, lack of confidence, or general exhaustion from navigating...

Some might say that making art is an impulse all humans have, yet artist-as-occupation is tremendously difficult - only a few are able to find their way as an artist due to social oppression, lack of confidence, or general exhaustion from navigating...

After World War II, the concept of borders became unsettled, especially after the rise of subaltern and multicultural studies in the 1980s. Art at the U.S.-Mexico border came to a turning point at the beginning of that decade with the election of U.S...

Gronk was born in 1954 in the barrios of East Los Angeles. An autodidact by circumstance, he began his career as an urban muralist who had to look up the word "mural" to know whether he could paint one. Over time, he has grown into an international...

In 2002, art collector and philanthropist Madeleine P. Plonsker began traveling to Cuba to uncover Havana's thriving art scene. The Light in Cuban Eyes: Lake Forest College's Madeleine P. Plonsker Collection of Contemporary Cuban Photography focuses on...

Working for more than four decades in a variety of media, from drawings and paintings to murals and the silkscreen prints for which he is best known, Malaquias Montoya has pursued a singular artistic vision that promotes the dignity of labor, exposes...

One of the most revered members of "the Miami Generation," a group of Cuban-born artists who emigrated to the United States, MarIa Brito is a painter, sculptor, and installation artist best known for her elaborately constructed room-like works that...

In this examination of the art of Rafael Ferrer, Deborah Cullen considers the creative evolution of the Puerto Rican-born, U.S.-based artist, widely recognized and critically acclaimed for postminimalist environments constructed during the 1960s and...

The aim of this book is to engender Mexican folk art and locate women at its centre by studying the processes of creation, distribution, and consumption, as well as examining iconographic aspects, and elements of class and ethnicity, from the perspective...

'Art + NYC' is an art-lover's guide to New York City that combines a crash course in 20th- and 21st-century art history with in-depth bios of ten celebrated New York City artists: Edward Hopper, Jackson Pollock, Andy Warhol, Cindy Sherman, Yoko Ono, Mark...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780890136638Author Robin Farwell GavinFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Museum of New Mexico PressPublisher Museum of New Mexico PressWeight(grams)...

"Multiple backgrounds can form such two- and three-dimensional ideas that they take you to the brink of lunacy, but I have used this rich background and ethnic landscape for creating art. As a student at the University of Minnesota, I often wondered what...

This new book, published to coincide with an exhibition at Kunsthaus Zurich in summer 2017 offers an overview of the development of Mexican graphic art between the late 19th-century and the 1970s, ranging from figurativism to early abstract works. It...

Named a Best Art Book of 2017 by the New York Times and Artforum In South of Pico Kellie Jones explores how the artists in Los Angeles's black communities during the 1960s and 1970s created a vibrant, productive, and engaged activist arts scene in the...

Borderwall as Architecture is an artistic and intellectual hand grenade of a book, and a timely re-examination of what the physical barrier that divides the United States of America from the United Mexican States is and could be. It is both a protest...

Published to mark the artist's first solo US museum show, Paulo Nazareth: Melee presents an engaging and timely look at the artist's multifarious work. The exhibition, held at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami in 2019, explored how Nazareth's work...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781901990010Author Roger CasementFormat HardbackPage Count 544Imprint Anaconda Editions LtdPublisher Anaconda Editions LtdWeight(grams) 918gDimensions(mm)...

Months before Alma Lopez's digital collage Our Lady was shown at the Museum of International Folk Art in 2001, the museum began receiving angry phone calls from community activists and Catholic leaders who demanded that the image not be displayed...

This anthology provides an overview of the history and theory of Chicano/a art from the 1960s to the present, emphasizing the debates and vocabularies that have played key roles in its conceptualization. In Chicano and Chicana Art-which includes many of...

Reconsiders the lyrical norm that predominates in Anglophone accounts of poetry through a multilingual and transnational lensThis book examines poets and artists in the Americas during the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries to show how they...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781087972510Author Hugo MaldonadoFormat PaperbackPage Count 30Imprint IngramSparkPublisher IngramSparkWeight(grams) 86gDimensions(mm) 260mm * 168mm * 2mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781087961552Author Hugo MaldonadoFormat PaperbackPage Count 34Imprint Hugo O. MaldonadoPublisher Hugo O. MaldonadoWeight(grams) 77g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9784430455630Author Cristina BernaFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Missys ClanPublisher Missys ClanWeight(grams) 168g

In Alma Lopez's digital print Lupe & Sirena in Love (1999), two icons-the Virgin of Guadalupe and the mermaid Sirena, who often appears on Mexican lottery cards-embrace one another, symbolically claiming a place for same-sex desire within Mexican and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781953220028Author Netanel Miles-YepezFormat HardbackPage Count 40Imprint Albion-Andalus, Inc.Publisher Albion-Andalus, Inc.Weight(grams) 203g