Caribbean & Latin American

How modern and contemporary artists across the African and Caribbean diasporas transformed European Surrealism into a tool for Black expression On the centennial anniversary of Andre Breton's first Surrealist Manifesto, Surrealism and Us shines new...

A new, updated and expanded edition of this classic survey on the history of Caribbean art, featuring the work of over 100 artists from the period of colonialism to the present day. Caribbean Art presents and discusses the diverse, fascinating and...

This groundbreaking book explores the visual representations of black culture throughout the twentieth century and into the twenty-first. From blues to rap, from the paintings of Henry Ossawa Tanner to the video pieces of Keith Piper and Steve McQueen,...

A Pre-Columbian art lover and noted curator journey into a fine art collection, describing the rich cultural context and artistic merits of each work. Along with 150 full-colour glossy illustrations of the terracotta, earthenware, stone, silver and...

Painting in Latin America, 1550-1820: From Conquest to Independence surveys the diverse styles, subjects, and iconography of painting in Latin America between the 16th and 19th centuries. While European art forms were widely disseminated, copied, and...

From painting and sculptures to papier-mache and gorgeously embellished Vodou flags, Russell's book is a celebration of the best examples in each medium produced in Haiti in the last seven decades. The misunderstood religion of Vodou informs much of the...

This volume accompanies a major international loan exhibition featuring some three hundred works of art rarely or never before seen in the United States. It traces the development of gold working and other luxury arts in the Americas from antiquity until...

Today Is Always Yesterday explores the historical constructs underlying contemporary art in Brazil. Michael Asbury, through his study of the South American nation's colonial and post-colonial condition, argues that art can not only illustrate history but...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781584236641Author Benjamin LacombeFormat HardbackPage Count 76Imprint Gingko Press, IncPublisher Gingko Press, Inc

A new edition of artist-poet Cecilia Vicuna's artist's book on the politics of the sea Beginning and ending at the edge of the ocean at the sacred mouth of the Aconcagua River, About to Happen serves as a lament as well as love letter to the sea. In...

A compelling look at Doris Salcedo's works from the past fifteen years, exploring how the artist challenges not only the limits of the materials she uses but also the traditions of sculpture itself Colombian sculptor and installation artist Doris Salcedo...

An in-depth look at the transformative influence of Mexican artists on their U.S. counterparts during a period of social change The first half of the 20th century saw prolific cultural exchange between the United States and Mexico, as artists and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780870708176Author Leah DickermanFormat HardbackPage Count 148Imprint Museum of Modern ArtPublisher Museum of Modern ArtWeight(grams) 960g

A to Z of Caribbean Art is a visual overview of Caribbean art, from the beginning of the 20th century to now, and serves as a resource of information on some of the greatest artists of the region. Sequenced alphabetically, it mixes genres including...

The patchwork is an apt metaphor for the region not only because of its colourfulness and the making of something whole out of fragments but as an attempt to make coherence out of disorder. The seeking of coherence was the exact process of putting...

Winner, Book Prize in Latin American Studies, Colonial Section of Latin American Studies Association (LASA), 2016 ALAA Book Award, Association for Latin American Art/Arvey Foundation, 2016The capital of the Aztec empire, Tenochtitlan, was, in its era,...

The sixteenth-century pictorial manuscript known as the Codex Borbonicus contains a remarkable record of the eighteen Mexica (or “Aztec”) festival periods of twenty days, known as veintenas, celebrated during the 365-day solar year. Because its...

How artists challenged a military dictatorship through mass print technologies in 1970s and 1980s São Paulo.Throughout the 1970s and into the 1980s, during Brazil's military dictatorship, artists shifted their practices to critique the government and its...

Through gorgeous images and powerful interviews with 65 artists of Caribbean heritage, Crafted Kinship takes readers on an important journey through the world of Black Caribbean art. This is the first book where Caribbean makers are sharing the intimate...

From Wild Tales to Zama, Argentine cinema has produced some of the most visually striking and critically lauded films of the 2000s. Argentina also boasts some of the most exciting contemporary poetry in the Spanish language. What happens when its film...

In Visual Disobedience, Kency Cornejo traces the emergence of new artistic strategies for Indigenous, feminist, and anticarceral resistance in the wake of torture, disappearance, killings, and US-funded civil wars in Central America. Cornejo reveals a...

Ancient gold artifacts and contemporary gilded artworks trace the legacy of one of the most pervasive myths of colonialism Presenting art from the precolonial period to today, this publication examines how the myth of El Dorado has shaped the history...

Alfredo Boulton (1908-1995) was Venezuela's foremost cultural and aesthetic observer of the 20th century. An art critic, cultural historian and photographer, he was highly influential in the development of modernist art and discourse, and of cultural...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780981573854Author Ursula Davila-VillaFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Blantom Museum of ArtPublisher Blantom Museum of Art

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789689056157Author Priamo LozadaFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Turner (Spain)Publisher Turner (Spain)Weight(grams) 1048g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788415832393Author R. Eder A. Vasquez ManteconFormat PaperbackPage Count 620Imprint Turner Publicaciones, S.L.Publisher Turner Publicaciones, S.L.

Overlooked in the history of artistic endeavors are the contributions of female writers, painters, and crafters of the Caribbean. The creative works by women from the Caribbean proves to be as remarkable as the women themselves. In Caribbean Women and...

Overlooked in the history of artistic endeavors are the contributions of female writers, painters, and crafters of the Caribbean. The creative works by women from the Caribbean proves to be as remarkable as the women themselves. In Caribbean Women...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780985660239Author Irene HofmannFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Site Santa FePublisher Site Santa Fe

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780982354438Author Tomás MaldonadoFormat HardbackPage Count 180Imprint Fundacion CisnerosPublisher Fundacion Cisneros

Beyond the Supersquare: Art and Architecture in Latin America after Modernism, which developed from a symposium presented by the Bronx Museum of the Arts in 2011, showcases original essays by distinguished Latin American architects, historians, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789689056232Author Phyllis La FargeFormat PaperbackPage Count 222Imprint Turner PublicacionesPublisher Turner Publicaciones

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788415832386Author Cuauhtemoc MedinaFormat PaperbackPage Count 500Imprint TurnerPublisher TurnerWeight(grams) 2087gDimensions(mm) 277mm * 218mm * 43mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788415832362Author Jessica TaylorFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Turner Publicaciones, S.L.Publisher Turner Publicaciones, S.L.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788475067100Author Priamo LozadaFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint TurnerPublisher TurnerWeight(grams) 984g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788434313750Author Victoria JollyFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Ediciones Polígrafa S.A.Publisher Ediciones Polígrafa S.A.Weight(grams)...

The second half of the nineteenth century is considered the golden age of children's literature. Is precisely at this moment that these two artist develop a great deal of illustrations for cheap books that were very fragile and ephemeral. The...

This edited volume examines the history of abstract art across Latin America after 1945. This form of art grew in popularity across the Americas in the postwar period, often serving to affirm a sense of being modern and the right of Latin America to...

Known for their beautiful textile art, the Kuna of Panama have been scrutinized by anthropologists for decades. Perhaps surprisingly, this scrutiny has overlooked the magnificent Kuna craft of nuchukana-wooden anthropomorphic carvings-which play vital...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783863352936Author Christiane CladosFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther KonigPublisher Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther...