Caribbean & Latin American

Brooklyn-born Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-88) was one of the most important artists of the 1980s. A key figure in the New York art scene, he inventively explored the interplay between words and images throughout his career, first as a member of SAMO, a...

The seminal writing of Carlos Cruz-Diez, best known for his experiential works exploring color and its properties Trained as a painter, Carlos Cruz-Diez (1923-2019) developed a conceptual platform for his work based on optical and chromatic phenomena,...

Founded in the first century BCE near a set of natural springs in an otherwise dry northeastern corner of the Valley of Mexico, the ancient metropolis of Teotihuacan was on a symbolic level a city of elements. With a multiethnic population of perhaps one...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781633450707Author Ines KatzensteinFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Museum of Modern ArtPublisher Museum of Modern ArtWeight(grams) 1320g

This book examines the reception in Latin America of prints designed by the Flemish artist Peter Paul Rubens, showing how colonial artists used such designs to create all manner of artworks and, in the process, forged new frameworks for artistic...

Honorable Mention, 2021 LASA Mexico Humanities Book Prize, Latin American Studies Association, Mexico SectionIn the sixteenth century, the Franciscan friar Bernardino de Sahagun and a team of indigenous grammarians, scribes, and painters completed...

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...

A collection of essential quotations and other writings from artist and icon Jean-Michel BasquiatOne of the most important artists of the late twentieth century, Jean-Michel Basquiat explored the interplay of words and images throughout his career as a...

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...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781879128569Author Tie JojimaFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint ScadPublisher Scad

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.

Focusing on the Anglophone Caribbean, The Making of a Caribbean Avant-Garde describes the rise and gradual consolidation of the visual arts avant-garde, which came to local and international attention in the 1990s. The book is centered on the critical...

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 9783935567411Author Marie-Laure BernadacFormat HardbackPage Count 136Imprint Holzwarth PublicationsPublisher Holzwarth Publications

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 9780982354445Author Jac LeirnerFormat HardbackPage Count 220Imprint Fundacion CisnerosPublisher Fundacion Cisneros

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...

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...

For the first time Katoen Natie, a global logistics service provider, shows its collection of unique modern and contemporary art from Latin America, the biggest collection in Europe. Renowned experts such as Laura Malosetti Costa and Christina Rossi...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789930503072Author Multiple WritersFormat PaperbackPage Count 246Imprint Pucci PublishingPublisher Pucci PublishingWeight(grams) 1833g

The years following Mexican independence in 1821 were critical to the development of social, racial, and national identities. The visual arts played a decisive role in this process of self-definition. Mexican Costumbrismo reorients current understanding...

In the wake of 500 years of colonialism, the Caribbean archipelago remains to this day one of the world's most profoundly fractured regions of the world. Spain, Germany, England, the Netherlands, and the United States claimed various parts of the island...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780884024705Author Colin McEwanFormat HardbackPage Count 512Imprint Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & CollectionPublisher Dumbarton Oaks Research Library &...

Presenting the first comprehensive art historical study of some magnificent Mesoamerican murals, this book demonstrates how generations of ancient Mexican artists, patrons, and audiences created a powerful statement of communal identity that still...

In The Politics of Taste Ana Maria Reyes examines the works of Colombian artist Beatriz Gonzalez and Argentine-born art critic, Marta Traba, who championed Gonzalez's art during Colombia's National Front coalition government (1958-74). During this...

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...