Caribbean & Latin American

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

Examining the vivid, often apocalyptic church murals of Peru from the early colonial period through the nineteenth century, Heaven, Hell, and Everything in Between explores the sociopolitical situation represented by the artists who generated these...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

Caribbean art as a diasporic, fugitive phenomenon: a groundbreaking global survey The 1990s were a period of profound political transformation, from the dissolution of the Eastern Bloc to the rise of trade agreements that continue to influence the...

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...

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...

Axe Bahia examines the unique cultural role played by Salvador, the coastal capital of the Brazilian state of Bahia. An internationally renowned center of Afro-Brazilian culture, Salvador has been a vibrant and important hub of African-inspired artistic...

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...

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...

A magnificent survey of the rich and varied arts in Latin America from 1492 to the end of the colonial era Essays by Gauvin Alexander Bailey, Clara Bargellini, Dilys E. Blum, Elizabeth Hill Boone, Marcus Burke, Mitchell A. Codding, Thomas B. F. Cummins,...

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

A timely reassessment of some of the most daring projects of abstraction from South America "Sullivan's close reading, contextual sensitivity and sidestepping of grand simplifying narratives make this book an extremely valuable addition to the growing...

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...

Is there such a thing as Latin American Art? Does it need this label in a global art world? It is, of course, clear that there is no such thing, just as there is no African nor European art. It would be interesting though to include Caribbean art...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780884024699Author Colin McEwanFormat HardbackPage Count 806Imprint Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & CollectionPublisher Dumbarton Oaks Research Library &...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780884024675Author Kenneth G. HirthFormat HardbackPage Count 540Imprint Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & CollectionPublisher Dumbarton Oaks Research...

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 &...

A landmark book reframing ancient Colombian art-including goldwork, ceramics, textiles and more-as vehicles of cultural knowledge across space and time Spanning all major pre-Columbian cultures of Colombia, and featuring some of the most remarkable...

A penetrating survey of contemporary art from Puerto Rico and the diaspora created since Hurricane Maria Centering on works made by nearly twenty multigenerational artists from Puerto Rico and the diaspora, this volume responds to numerous contemporary...

The mysterious beauty of Punu masks and the artistic culture of Gabon are presented in a detailed and engaging book accompanied by numerous full-colour illustrations. Accompanying a major travelling exhibition, this ambitious volume showcases more...

New ways of understanding Caribbean visual culture, from historical photographs following emancipation to contemporary transnational perspectives, on the occasion of a major exhibition at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Canada Anchored by an extensive...

This compelling and comprehensive survey introduces an exceptionally rich, fascinating and complex art. Edward Lucie-Smith discusses major subjects and issues: Magic Realism, Expressionism and other concepts shared with Latin American literature; the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788867495665Author Rubem ValentimFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Mousse PublishingPublisher Mousse PublishingWeight(grams) 522gDimensions(mm) 241mm *...

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...

Focusing on artistic evocations of the irrepressible Gedes - an increasingly dominant family of trickster dieties - In Extremis examines the striking disjunction between social collapse and artistic flourescence in twenty-first century Haiti. It brings...

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

Explores the scope that there is for Indigenous curatorial agency in the relationship of Indigenous contemporary art with the 'art world'. This monograph focuses on the current boom in Indigenous contemporary art in Brazil, exploring in particular the...

A nuanced look at Maya mythology, from the literary record of the Popol Vuh to a broad range of artistic depictions by ancient Maya artistsAbout the AuthorOswaldo Chinchilla Mazariegos is associate professor in the Department of Anthropology at Yale...

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...

Performative interventions in everyday life This is the first major monograph for Brazilian conceptual artist Cinthia Marcelle (born 1974), accompanying her solo show at MASP. Through photographs, videos, installations and interventions that make use...

A new reality for the art object has emerged in the world of contemporary art: it is now experienced less as an autonomous, inanimate form and more as an active material agent. In this book, Kaira M. Cabanas describes how such a shift in conceptions of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781846380976Author Sabeth BuchmannFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Afterall PublishingPublisher Afterall PublishingWeight(grams) 322g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806165769Author Lawrence M WoodsFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint University of Oklahoma PressPublisher University of Oklahoma PressWeight(grams) 449g

The first woman in America to own and operate a circus, Agnes Lake spent thirty years under the Big Top before becoming the wife of Wild Bill Hickok--a mere five months before he was killed. Although books abound on the famous lawman, Agnes's life has...