Caribbean & Latin American

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

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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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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781917399104Author Richard A Byron-CoxFormat PaperbackPage Count 508Imprint Books Publishing CompanyPublisher Books Publishing CompanyWeight(grams) 871g

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...

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In the eighteenth century, New Spaniards (colonial Mexicans) so lauded their nuns that they developed a local tradition of visually opulent portraits, called monjas coronadas or "crowned nuns," that picture their subjects in regal trappings at the moment...

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

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...

This insightful study of traditional Mexican clothing is based on authentic dolls made by folk artists in Mexico. With over 550 color photographs, it is a beautiful and comprehensive review that relates customs, language, music, and folk arts to a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578213262Author A J GoldsmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint Azul Publishing, Inc.Publisher Azul Publishing, Inc.Weight(grams) 203g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781978803954Author Lia T. BascombFormat HardbackPage Count 310Imprint Rutgers University PressPublisher Rutgers University Press

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...

Winner, Arthur P. Whitaker Prize, Middle Atlantic Council of Latin American Studies, 2019 In the 1930s, the artistic and cultural patronage of celebrated Mexican president Lazaro Cardenas transformed a small Michoacan city, Patzcuaro, into a popular...

Moteuczoma, the last king who ruled the Aztec Empire, was rarely seen or heard by his subjects, yet his presence was felt throughout the capital city of Tenochtitlan, where his deeds were recorded in hieroglyphic inscriptions on monuments and his command...

The margins of the Americas-borders that are at once physical and societal-engender sacred figures who walk the fine line between sinfulness and sanctity. In worship and artistic representation alike, these entities reflect and impact the experiences of...