Caribbean & Latin American

The Fundacion Cisneros' new Conversaciones series is dedicated to the exchange of ideas between artists and authors. This second publication in the series contains a collection of interviews between the Argentine-born artist, industrial designer and...

This sumptuous slip-cased set presents the Barbier-Mueller Collection, which includes masterworks from the Aztec, Maya, and other cultures, in two magnificently illustrated books written by the greatest international specialists on the subject, and also...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780890134375Author Francis H HarlowFormat HardbackPage Count 185Imprint Museum of New Mexico PressPublisher Museum of New Mexico PressWeight(grams) 1380g

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...

The Caribbean has been traditionally associated with externally devised mappings and categories, thus appearing as a passive entity to be consumed and categorized. Challenging these forces and representations, Carlos Garrido Castellano argues that...

Artist, educator, curator, and critic Luis Camnitzer has been writing about contemporary art ever since he left his native Uruguay in 1964 for a fellowship in New York City. As a transplant from the "periphery" to the "center," Camnitzer has had to...

The first volume to theorize and historicize contemporary artistic practices from Chile in the English language, Dismantling the Nation begins from a position of radical criticism against the nation-state of Chile and its capitalist, heteronormative, 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

Cuban American artist Luis Cruz Azaceta addresses what author Alejandro Anreus calls the "wounds and screams" of the human condition. Although Cruz Azaceta's work is extensively exhibited and widely collected, this is the first book on the artist's life...

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) 984gDimensions(mm) 278mm * 242mm * 14mm

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 9781787359772Author Joanna PageFormat PaperbackImprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 550g

Winner, Roland H. Bainton Book Prize, The Sixteenth Century Society and Conference, 2019Some sixty years after the Spanish conquest of Mexico, a group of Nahua intellectuals in Mexico City set about compiling an extensive book of miscellanea, which was...

This book focuses on the life and artistic activities of Emilio Sanchez (1921-1999) in New York, and Latin America in the 1940s and 1950s. More specifically, the book will consider Sanchez in the wider context of mid-century Cuban artists, and...

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...

Explores a new form of fiction that emerged in late-twentieth-century visual art across the Americas. With Non-literary Fiction, Esther Gabara examines how contemporary art produced across the Americas has reacted to the rising tide of neoliberal...

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) 1833gDimensions(mm) 273mm *...

Miguel Covarrubias enjoyed transcultural encounters and exchanges in the cosmopolitan centers of Mexico City, New York, and Europe, where he met and exchanged ideas in a global network of modernists such as Georgia O'Keeffe. Famous for his caricature...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783837655926Author David FrohnapfelFormat PaperbackPage Count 318Imprint Transcript PublishingPublisher Transcript PublishingWeight(grams) 147g

This interdisciplinary book brings into dialogue research on how different fluids and bodies of water are mobilised as liquid ecologies in the arts in Latin America and the Caribbean.Examining the visual arts, including multimedia installations,...

Bridging print culture and performance, Spectacular Wealth draws on eighteenth-century festival accounts to explore how colonial residents of the silver-mining town of Potosi, in the viceroyalty of Peru, and the gold-mining region of Minas Gerais, in...

According to national legend, Havana, Cuba, was founded under the shade of a ceiba tree whose branches sheltered the island's first Catholic mass and meeting of the town council (cabildo) in 1519. The founding site was first memorialized in 1754 by the...

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...

The ancient city of Teotihuacan, North America's first metropolis, flourished for nearly eight centuries in central Mexico until its demise in 650 C.E. Known primarily for its massive architecture and monumental wall paintings, the city - and its...

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...

New works from the celebrated Brazilian virtuoso of joyously chromatic abstraction Published in conjunction with the Brazilian artist Beatriz Milhazes' (born 1960) first solo exhibition at Pace since she joined the gallery in 2020, this book...

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...

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,...

During the period of Aztec expansion and empire (ca. 1325-1525), scribes of high social standing used a pictographic writing system to paint hundreds of manuscripts detailing myriad aspects of life, including historical, calendric, and religious...

An engaging investigation of contemporary Brazilian artist Lygia Pape's early body of woodblock prints, which profoundly influenced the trajectory of her oeuvre One of Brazil's best-known contemporary artists, Lygia Pape (1927-2004) was a founding member...

Between 1910 and 1920 Mexico was convulsed by socialist revolution, from which emerged a strong left-wing government that laid great stress on art as a vehicle for promoting revolutionary values. This led to a pioneering programme to cover the walls of...

Art can be a powerful avenue of resistance to oppressive governments. During the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet in Chile, some of the country's least powerful citizens-impoverished women living in Santiago's shantytowns-spotlighted the government's...

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

The first authoritative collection of drawings by legendary modern architect Lina Bo BardiLina Bo Bardi (1914-1992) was one of the most prolific and visionary architects of the twentieth century. Raised in Italy under Mussolini's Fascist regime and...