Caribbean & Latin American

The renowned Argentinian conceptual artist David Lamelas (born 1946) has an expansive oeuvre, which shows his work to be evocative, restive, and exhilarating. This book, published to coincide with the first monographic exhibition of the artist's work in...

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...

Cuba has changed significantly in recent years, from seemingly minor allowances (such as the introduction of cell phones) to large-scale economic revisions. At the same time, many other changes unrelated to the political leadership of the island have...

Chicano activist, poet, artist, intellectual, professor, and musician, Jose Montoya (1932-2013) was a veritable Renaissance man. Montoya often found inspiration in the verdant fields of the San Joaquin Valley where his family arrived from their home in...

Jose Bedia is an artist, practitioner, and devotee whose work emanates from his diverse and often systematic religious journeys, experiences, and encounters. Transcultural Pilgrim invites the reader into Bedia's spiritual worlds, which range from his...

Beyond the Supersquare: Art and Architecture in Latin America after Modernism, which developed from a symposium presented by the Bronx Museum of the Arts in 2011, showcases original essays by distinguished Latin American architects, historians, and...

Oaxaca is internationally renowned for its marketplaces and archaeological sites where tourists can buy inexpensive folk art, including replicas of archaeological treasures. Archaeologists, art historians, and museum professionals sometimes discredit...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780989331739Author Alfredo JaarFormat HardbackPage Count 295Imprint ActarPublisher ActarD IncWeight(grams) 1179g

In Another Aesthetics Is Possible Jennifer Ponce de Leon examines the roles that art can play in the collective labor of creating and defending another social reality. Focusing on artists and art collectives in Argentina, Mexico, and the United States,...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789689056232Author Phyllis La FargeFormat PaperbackPage Count 222Imprint Turner PublicacionesPublisher Turner Publicaciones

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788415832386Author Cuauhtemoc MedinaFormat PaperbackPage Count 500Imprint TurnerPublisher TurnerWeight(grams) 2087gDimensions(mm) 277mm * 218mm * 43mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788415832362Author Jessica TaylorFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Turner Publicaciones, S.L.Publisher Turner Publicaciones, S.L.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780982354445Author Jac LeirnerFormat HardbackPage Count 220Imprint Fundacion CisnerosPublisher Fundacion Cisneros

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788475067100Author Priamo LozadaFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint TurnerPublisher TurnerWeight(grams) 984g

How a city government in central Mexico evolved from waging war on graffiti in the early 2000s to sanctioning its creation a decade later, and how youth navigated these changing conditions for producing art. The local government, residents, and media...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788434313750Author Victoria JollyFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Ediciones Polígrafa S.A.Publisher Ediciones Polígrafa S.A.Weight(grams)...

In the aftermath of the sixteenth-century Spanish conquest of Mexico, Spanish friars and authorities partnered with indigenous rulers and savants to gather detailed information on Aztec history, religious beliefs, and culture. The pictorial books they...

The second half of the nineteenth century is considered the golden age of children's literature. Is precisely at this moment that these two artist develop a great deal of illustrations for cheap books that were very fragile and ephemeral. The...

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...

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...

This important and welcome volume is the first English-language anthology of writings on Latin American modern art of the twentieth century. The book includes some fifty seminal essays and documents-including statements, interviews, and manifestoes by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787359772Author Joanna PageFormat PaperbackImprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 550g

This volume showcases dynamic developments in the field of manuscript research that go beyond traditional textual, iconographic, or codicological studies. Using state-of-the-art conservation technologies, scholars investigate how four manuscripts--the...

The Davis Museum's groundbreaking curatorial project, Art__Latin__America: Against the Survey, reconsiders conventional frameworks for understanding, exhibiting, and discussing Latin American and Latinx art. This illustrated volume, published with the...

Winner, Roland H. Bainton Book Prize, The Sixteenth Century Society and Conference, 2019 Some sixty years after the Spanish conquest of Mexico, a group of Nahua intellectuals in Mexico City set about compiling an extensive book of miscellanea, which...

The Cold War claimed many lives and inflicted tremendous psychological pain throughout the Americas. The extreme polarization that resulted from pitting capitalism against communism held most of the creative and productive energy of the twentieth century...

This book focuses on the life and artistic activities of Emilio Sanchez (1921–1999) in New York, and Latin America in the 1940s and 1950s. More specifically, the book will consider Sanchez in the wider context of mid-century Cuban artists, and...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783037644461Author Rodrigo AlonsoFormat HardbackPage Count 220Imprint JRP RingierPublisher JRP Ringier

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783863352936Author Christiane CladosFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther KonigPublisher Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789384154Author Olga Rodriguez-UlloaFormat HardbackPage Count 420Imprint Intellect BooksPublisher Intellect BooksWeight(grams) 170g

Jonathan Z. Smith (1938–2017) was unquestionably one of the most important and influential voices of critical reflection within the academic study of religion in the last century. His work explored the nature and history of religious phenomena across...

Joaquín Rodrigo: A Research and Information Guide catalogues and summarizes the musical works and related literature of Joaquín Rodrigo (1901–99), perhaps the most important Spanish composer of concert music in the second half of the twentieth century...

Explores a new form of fiction that emerged in late-twentieth-century visual art across the Americas. With Non-Literary Fiction, Esther Gabara examines how contemporary art produced across the Americas has reacted to the rising tide of neoliberal...

Explores a new form of fiction that emerged in late-twentieth-century visual art across the Americas. With Non-Literary Fiction, Esther Gabara examines how contemporary art produced across the Americas has reacted to the rising tide of neoliberal...

Bridging print culture and performance, Spectacular Wealth draws on eighteenth-century festival accounts to explore how colonial residents of the silver-mining town of Potosi, in the viceroyalty of Peru, and the gold-mining region of Minas Gerais, in...

This unique volume describes how powerful the Cuban art experience has become, especially after the emergence of Cuba s strong generation of young creatives on the Latin American art scene in the 1980s. It includes thirty artists selected by the curators...