Caribbean & Latin American

Focusing on artistic evocations of the irrepressible Gedes - an increasingly dominant family of trickster dieties - In Extremis examines the striking disjunction between social collapse and artistic flourescence in twenty-first century Haiti. It brings...

This pioneering work brings the pre-Columbian and colonial history of Latin America home: rather than starting out in Spain and following Columbus and the conquistadores as they "discover" New World peoples, The Formation of Latin American...

Scattered throughout their coastal homelands, the remains of impressive artworks produced by the Moche of northern Peru survive. These works include ceremonial centers extensively decorated with murals, as well as elaborate and sophisticated ceramic...

In Unseen Art, Claudia Brittenham unravels one of the most puzzling phenomena in Mesoamerican art history: why many of the objects that we view in museums today were once so difficult to see. She examines the importance that ancient Mesoamerican people...

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Colonial Lima was steeped in Christian devotional imagery. While Spaniards set the norms for these works, it was the city's Black and Indigenous majority that engaged with them most. As members of lay societies of worshippers called confraternities,...

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Pasting Up Protest examines the sociopolitical engagement of contemporary artists in Mexico, analyzing street art produced over the past decade by ASARO, URT-Arte, ARMARTE, and MuGRe.

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781477331873Author Natalia MajlufFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint University of Texas PressPublisher University of Texas PressWeight(grams)...

The richly illustrated story of a brief yet pivotal encounter in Paris between Frida Kahlo and Mary Reynolds, two luminaries of the Surrealist movement In February 1939, while visiting Paris at the invitation of writer Andre Breton, Mexican artist...

This edited volume’s chief aim is to bring together, in an English-language source, the principal histories and narratives of some of the most significant academies and national schools of art in South America, Mexico, and the Caribbean, from the late...

Confidently navigate the Visual Arts curricula across all secondary school years with a course that unifies foundational skills and CSEC exam practice, featuring clear visual guides and activities tailored for academic success and artistic growth.Enhance...

The first study of Christian murals created by indigenous artists in sixteenth and seventeenth century Yucatan. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Maya artists painted murals in churches and conventos of Yucatan using traditional techniques to...

The first comprehensive exploration of Aubrey Williams’s art, revealing the cross-cultural dynamics and transformations connecting Caribbean, British, and Atlantic histories The abstract paintings of Guyanese artist Aubrey Williams (1926–1990) evoke...