Caribbean & Latin American

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

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

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...

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...

LASA Visual Culture Studies Section Book Prize, Latin American Studies Association (LASA)Winner, Arthur P. Whitaker Prize, Middle Atlantic Council of Latin American Studies, 2019 In the 1930s, the artistic and cultural patronage of celebrated Mexican...

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...

From the first contacts between European conquerors and the peoples of the Americas, objects were exchanged and treasures pillaged, as if each side were seeking to appropriate tangible fragments of the "world" of the other. Soon, too, the...

In The Americas Revealed, distinguished art historian and curator Edward J. Sullivan brings together a vibrant group of essays that explore the formation, in the United States, of public and private collections of art from the Spanish- and...

Essays on the rise of community-focused art projects and anti-monuments in Mexico since the 1980s. Mexico has long been lauded and studied for its post-revolutionary public art, but recent artistic practices have raised questions about how public art is...

Published to accompany a show at PAC in Milan, which explores other continents through collective shows of contemporary art: this summer Brazil will be in the spotlight. Knife in the Flesh (Navalha na Carne) is the title of a play by Brazilian writer...