Caribbean & Latin American

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...

A groundbreaking publication on the Caribbean-born French Neoclassical painter Guillaume Lethiere and his extraordinary, yet largely unexamined career Born in the French colony of Guadeloupe, Guillaume Lethiere (1760-1832) was a key figure in the...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781940190273Author Gustavo OjedaFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Soberscove PressPublisher Soberscove PressWeight(grams) 454g

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

Relational Undercurrents accompanies an exhibition curated by Tatiana Flores for the Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach, California, which forms part of the Getty Foundation's Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA. This initiative examines the artistic...

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...

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Arvey Foundation Book Award, Association for Latin American Art, 2018Many Latin American artists and critics in the 1920s drew on the values of modernism to question the cultural authority of Europe. Modernism gave them a tool for coping with the...

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...

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...

An examination of sculpture and authorship in eighteenth-century Quito that documents Caspicara as a participant in the innovative artistic production of the city’s workshops and its widespread commerce of polychrome sculptures. Who is Caspicara? Nothing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788415427971Author Gabriel Perez BarreiroFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint Ediciones Turner, S.A.Publisher Ediciones Turner, S.A.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788415228257Author Jose ArceFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint RM Verlag SLPublisher RM Verlag SL

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798223394334Author E L CummingsFormat PaperbackPage Count 86Imprint Zakkiyya Cummings McKiePublisher Zakkiyya Cummings McKieWeight(grams) 109g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788415691891Author Marco MilanFormat HardbackPage Count 95Imprint La FabricaPublisher La Fabrica

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781777038120Author Tony BurtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 166Imprint Sombrero BooksPublisher Sombrero BooksWeight(grams) 178g

An overdue introduction to one of the Americas’ most eminent nineteenth-century artists, the Mexican painter José María Velasco José María Velasco (1840–1912) is considered the greatest Mexican landscape painter of the nineteenth century. In portraying...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781393213512Author J C DoyleFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint Business EdpublisherPublisher Business EdpublisherWeight(grams) 140g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782369602927Author Alberto García FumeroFormat PaperbackPage Count 596Imprint Monda Asembleo Socia (Mas)Publisher Monda Asembleo Socia (Mas)Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781463341176Author Chary Castro-MarinFormat PaperbackImprint PalibrioPublisher PalibrioWeight(grams) 222g

On the southern end of the Grand Rue, a major thoroughfare that runs through the center of Port-au-Prince, waits the Haitian capital's automobile repair district. This veritable junkyard of steel and rubber, recycled parts, old tires, and scrap metal...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781667180380Author Kai StoneFormat PaperbackPage Count 572Imprint Lulu PressPublisher Lulu PressWeight(grams) 148g

Art meets today's political debate over immigration in this beautifully illustrated exploration of Nicario Jimenez Quispe's retablos. This beautifully illustrated full-color book offers a unique depiction of the current immigration debate through the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781637527443Author Editions CanaanFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Editions CanaanPublisher Editions CanaanWeight(grams) 152g

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...

The Casa del Dean in Puebla, Mexico, is one of few surviving sixteenth-century residences in the Americas. Built in 1580 by Tomas de la Plaza, the Dean of the Cathedral, the house was decorated with at least three magnificent murals, two of which survive...

Custer's defeat at the Battle of the Little Big Horn did its part to win fame for the Big Horn Basin, and much has been written about the famous characters of Wyoming. But until now the region which is Wyoming's last frontier has not received...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013288012Author Joanna PageFormat HardbackPage Count 264Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams) 216g

Visual culture in Spain and Mexico analyses films, paintings and museum exhibitions to show how aspects of hispanic visual culture 'manage' or 'mediate' risk, as articulated stylistically and ideologically in the visual artefact. The book is divided into...

Caribbean Popular Culture: Power, Politics and Performance is an anthology of previously published works, newly commissioned pieces and substantially revised or updated articles which examine the Caribbean popular - an idea that has been an important and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789689056249Author Eduardo SarabiaFormat PaperbackPage Count 24Imprint Turner (Spain)Publisher Turner (Spain)Weight(grams) 86gDimensions(mm) 195mm * 142mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684742882Author Janice MaxwellFormat PaperbackPage Count 34Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 136g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013288005Author Joanna PageFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams) 216g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943274840Author Carmen Gómez VegaFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Polymecca PressPublisher Polymecca PressWeight(grams) 163g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912675340Author Aryla PublishingFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Aryla PublishingPublisher Aryla PublishingWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 279mm *...

Sculptors, painters, and architects in 20th-century Mexico, working in silver, inspired unprecedented stylistic and technical experimentation. This dual-language English/Spanish compendium focuses primarily on threads of influence in the development of...

The Routledge Hispanic Studies Companion to Medieval Iberia: Unity in Diversity draws together the innovative work of renowned scholars as well as several thought-provoking essays from emergent academics, in order to provide broad-range, in-depth...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781939879233Author Michael NelsonFormat PaperbackImprint Ediciones del MayabPublisher Ediciones del MayabWeight(grams) 241g