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Kahlo by Andrea Kettenmann
RRP: $31.50$23.81The arresting pictures of Frida Kahlo (1907-54) were in many ways expressions of trauma. Through a near-fatal road accident at the age of 18, failing health, a turbulent marriage, miscarriage and childlessness, she transformed the afflictions into... -
Ronald Moody: Sculpting Life by Ego Ahaiwe Sowinski 9780500027035
RRP: $63.00$41.58The first major monograph on sculptor Ronald Moody, exploring his legacy and impact through his key artistic relationships, networks and influences, and his relationship with nature, humanity and spirituality. Ronald Moody (1900-1984) was a leading... -
Frida Kahlo. 40th Ed. by Luis-Martín Lozano 9783836594851
RRP: $52.50$36.46Among the women artists who have transcended art history, none had a meteoric rise quite like Mexican painter Frida Kahlo (1907–1954). Her unmistakable face, depicted in over fifty extraordinary self-portraits, has been admired by generations; along with... -
Remedios Varo: Science Fictions by Caitlin Haskell
RRP: $63.00$54.26An exploration of the captivating work and mystical outlook of the modern artist Remedios Varo, focusing on her years in Mexico City This publication offers a definitive look at the artistic practice of Remedios Varo (1908-1963) following her... -
Frida Kahlo: The Masterworks by Roxana Velasquez
RRP: $73.50$53.09An ideal introduction to the painter s work, this volume features over 100 of Kahlo s most beloved paintings illustrating all aspects of her diverse oeuvre including works from both private and public collections many rarely seen in public. The best and... -
The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait by Carlos Fuentes
RRP: $52.50$35.70Published in its entirety, Frida Kahlo's amazing illustrated journal documents the last ten years of her turbulent life. These passionate, often surprising, intimate records, kept under lock and key for some 40 years in Mexico, reveal many new dimensions... -
Art and Architecture in Mexico by James Oles
RRP: $31.40$21.38This new interpretive history of Mexican art and architecture from the Spanish Conquest to the early decades of the 21st century is the most comprehensive introduction to the subject in fifty years. James Oles ranges widely across media and genres,... -
By Land, Air, Home, and Sea: The World of Frank Walter by Hilton Als 9781644231012
RRP: $115.50$74.51Explore Frank Walter's relationship to Antigua through a range of works and writings that express his intimate connection to Caribbean nature, landscape, and place. "Nothing seems to be reworked-it is as if each piece drew or painted itself without... -
The Florentine Codex: An Encyclopedia of the Nahua World in Sixteenth-Century Mexico by Jeanette Favrot Peterson
$97.29Honorable Mention, 2021 LASA Mexico Humanities Book Prize, Latin American Studies Association, Mexico SectionIn the sixteenth century, the Franciscan friar Bernardino de Sahagun and a team of indigenous grammarians, scribes, and painters completed... -
Tavares Strachan: In Total Darkness by Tavares Strachan 9780944219546
RRP: $119.70$79.00Notions of invisibility and obscurity weigh on Strachan's excavation of overlooked figures throughout history Bahamian-born artist Tavares Strachan's (born 1979) In Total Darkness engages with French colonialism through an investigation of the Haitian... -
Tavares Strachan: The Awakening by Tavares Strachan 9780944219539
RRP: $119.70$79.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780944219539Author Tavares StrachanFormat HardbackPage Count 133Imprint Goodman (Marian) Gallery,U.S.Publisher Goodman (Marian) Gallery,U.S. -
Frida Kahlo and Arte Popular by Frida Kahlo
RRP: $88.20$59.26How Kahlo collected, celebrated and depicted Mexican folk arts in both her painting and her persona The visionary and supremely self-fashioning artist Frida Kahlo (1907-54) drew inspiration throughout her career from arte popular-painted ceramics,... -
Avant-Garde, Internationalism, and Politics: Argentine Art in the Sixties by Andrea Giunta
RRP: $52.48$46.14The 1960s were heady years in Argentina. Visual artists, curators, and critics sought to fuse art and politics; to broaden the definition of art to encompass happenings and assemblages; and, above all, to achieve international recognition for new,... -
Sugar Skulls by Igloo Books 9781837714704
RRP: $23.08$16.78Sugar Skulls will immerse you in the celebrations surrounding Día de Muertos, mixing fun facts and crafts, plus scratch-art pages of beautiful scenes and fold-out art to personaliseBook InformationISBN 9781837714704Author Igloo BooksFormat PaperbackPage... -
Milhazes by Hans Werner Holzwarth 9783836584630
RRP: $168.00$122.16In her vibrant works, the Brazilian painter Beatriz Milhazes fuses two very different worldviews. Her abstract compositions, which can be seen in a line with modernist masters from Henri Matisse to Bridget Riley, are saturated with the colors and light... -
Hurvin Anderson by Catherine Lampert
RRP: $115.50$80.49The Birmingham-born, Turner Prize-nominated artist Hurvin Anderson is best known for his brightly painted, densely detailed landscapes and interior scenes, which are drawn from his own photographs, sketches and personal recollections particularly those... -
Cuban Mid-Century Design : A Modernist Regime by Abel González Fernandez 9780847831401
RRP: $121.70$85.32Primarily 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... -
Frida Kahlo Masterpieces of Art Dr Julian Beecroft 9781786644824
RRP: $31.48$21.74The painful, exquisite art of Mexico's favourite artist was a product of immense physical pain, and an emotional tumultuous life. The new book features the range and power of her heavily autobiographical work, from the early, disturbing explorations of... -
The Invisible Painting: My Memoir of Leonora Carrington by Gabriel Weisz Carrington 9781526169648
RRP: $27.28$19.61Since her death in 2011, the legendary Surrealist Leonora Carrington has been reconstructed and reinvented many times over. In this book, Gabriel Weisz Carrington draws on remembered conversations and events to demythologise his mother, revealing the... -
Collecting Mesoamerican Art before 1940: A New World of Latin American Antiquities by Andrew D. Turner 9781606068724
RRP: $115.50$95.95This book traces the fascinating history of how and why ancient Mesoamerican objects have been collected. It begins with the pre-Hispanic antiquities that first entered European collections in the sixteenth century as gifts or seizures, continues through... -
Basquiat-isms by Jean-Michel Basquiat
RRP: $23.08$20.10A collection of essential quotations and other writings from artist and icon Jean-Michel BasquiatOne of the most important artists of the late twentieth century, Jean-Michel Basquiat explored the interplay of words and images throughout his career as a... -
Rivera by Andrea Kettenmann
RRP: $31.50$23.81Diego Rivera (1886-1957) is a loud presence on the art historical stage. With devout political principles and a turbulent romantic history, he was at once husband and paladin of Frida Kahlo, advocate and adversary of Stalin's Soviet Union, and liberator... -
The Political Body: Stories on Art, Feminism, and Emancipation in Latin America by Andrea Giunta 9780520344327
RRP: $88.20$68.84How a constellation of Latin American artists explored the body, power, and emancipation-and expanded the meanings of feminist art. In The Political Body, art historian Andrea Giunta explores gender and power in the work of Latin American artists from... -
Mexico: The Land of Charm Jose Luis Lugo 9788417975517
RRP: $63.00$44.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788417975517Author Jose Luis LugoFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint RM Verlag SLPublisher RM Verlag SL -
Gego: Measuring Infinity by Gertrud Goldschmidt
RRP: $117.60$80.37Gego infused her art with architecture and engineering to create unique works of delicate suspense Accompanying the first major museum retrospective exhibition of Gego's work in the US in more than 15 years, this expansive, definitive catalog charts... -
An Excess of Quiet: Selected Sketches by Gustavo Ojeda, 1979-1989 by Gustavo Ojeda
RRP: $36.75$25.22Apologies 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 -
Teotihuacan: City of Water, City of Fire by Matthew Robb 9780520296558
RRP: $132.30$108.95Founded in the first century BCE near a set of natural springs in an otherwise dry northeastern corner of the Valley of Mexico, the ancient metropolis of Teotihuacan was on a symbolic level a city of elements. With a multiethnic population of perhaps one... -
State of Disappearance by Brad Evans 9780228018964
RRP: $58.78$50.69Disappearance 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... -
The Arts of the Ancient Americas at the Dallas Museum of Art by Michelle Rich
RRP: $105.00$100.49An 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... -
Hurricane Season: Caribbean Art and Climate Change by Mia Laufer 9781941366615
RRP: $81.90$54.75Artistic resilience in the face of increasing meteorological threats to the Caribbean Hurricanes and the devastation they bring have long been a part of life in the Caribbean, but with climate change these storms are getting more frequent and more... -
Lives of the Gods - Divinity in Maya Art by Joanne Pillsbury
RRP: $84.00$73.35This engaging exploration of the Maya pantheon introduces readers to the complex stories of Mesoamerican divinity through the stunning carvings, ceramics, and metalwork of the Classic period Focusing on the period between A.D. 250 and 900, Lives of the... -
Dissident Practices: Brazilian Women Artists, 1960s–2020s by Claudia Calirman
RRP: $44.08$38.87In Dissident Practices, Claudia Calirman examines sixty years of visual art by prominent and emerging Brazilian women artists from the 1960s to the present, covering the period from the military dictatorship to the return to democracy in the mid-1980s,... -
Guillaume Lethiere Esther Bell 9780300275780
RRP: $105.00$88.16A 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... -
The Invisible Painting: My Memoir of Leonora Carrington by Gabriel Weisz Carrington
RRP: $37.78$27.64Since her death in 2011, the legendary Surrealist Leonora Carrington has been reconstructed and reinvented many times over. In this book, Gabriel Weisz Carrington draws on remembered conversations and events to demythologise his mother, revealing the... -
Remedios Varo: The Mexican Years by Remedios Varo 9788415118220
RRP: $94.50$61.36This much-anticipated publication will have an introductory text by well-known writer Masayo Nonaka, curator of the exhibition "Women Surrealists in Mexico" and author of numerous books on Mexican surrealism. Masayo's text will offer a unique insight... -
Caribbean Art by Veerle Poupeye
RRP: $35.68$25.07A new, updated and expanded edition of this classic survey on the history of Caribbean art, featuring the work of over 100 artists from the period of colonialism to the present day. Caribbean Art presents and discusses the diverse, fascinating and... -
Black Art: A Cultural History by Richard J. Powell 9780500203620
RRP: $62.90$47.99This groundbreaking book explores the visual representations of black culture throughout the twentieth century and into the twenty-first. From blues to rap, from the paintings of Henry Ossawa Tanner to the video pieces of Keith Piper and Steve McQueen,... -
Painting in Latin America, 1550-1820: From Conquest to Independence by Luisa Elena Alcala
RRP: $115.50$100.99Painting 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... -
Masterpieces of Haitian Art by Candice Russell 9780764344268
RRP: $96.58$66.19From 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... -
Golden Kingdoms - Luxury Arts in the Ancient Americas Joanne Pillsbury 9781606065488
RRP: $105.00$91.83This volume accompanies a major international loan exhibition featuring some three hundred works of art rarely or never before seen in the United States. It traces the development of gold working and other luxury arts in the Americas from antiquity until...