Caribbean & Latin American

This is a penetrating glimpse into the first illustrated encyclopaedia of the New World. In August 1576, in the midst of an outbreak of the plague, the Spanish Franciscan friar Bernardino de Sahagun and 22 indigenous artists locked themselves inside the...

Primarily focused on the post-revolutionary era of Cuba from the late 1950s through the 1970s, this volume brings together a prolific cohort of artists, designers, and architects that materialized the ideology of their time, and ultimately narrate the...

Disappearance is marked by a devastating absence. It constitutes a form of violence that rips open a wound in time, offering no viable recovery and no meaningful justice. It provides alibis to perpetrators while denying victims their humanity. For those...

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...

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...

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...

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...

An illustrated compendium of artworks from the ancient Americas Including Indigenous works from the southwestern United States, Mesoamerica, the Isthmo-Colombian Area, and the Andes of South America, this book showcases more than 100 masterpieces of art...

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...

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 9780884024699Author Colin McEwanFormat HardbackPage Count 806Imprint Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & CollectionPublisher Dumbarton Oaks Research Library &...

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...

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 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...

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...

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 &...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639442874Author Laura KatzmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Jmu, Duke Hall Gallery of Fine ArtPublisher Jmu, Duke Hall Gallery of Fine...

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...

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...

Dancing into Dreams explores 8th-century Maya vase painting of the Ik' kingdom, located in the tropical lowlands of present day Guatemala. Ik' vases are acclaimed for their naturalistic color, veristic portraiture, and calligraphic line. Their painted...

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

The Tales-on series intends to provide a platform for cultural research and artistic exchange in South America. This first release takes place in Colombia, including work by artists such as Nicolas Paris, Mateo Lopez, Daniel Salamanca, Bernardo Ortiz and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904982562Author Gabriela SiracusanoFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Archetype Publications LtdPublisher Archetype Publications LtdWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781917399111Author Richard A Byron-CoxFormat HardbackPage Count 508Imprint Books Publishing CompanyPublisher Books Publishing CompanyWeight(grams) 1098g