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  • On Art, Artists, Latin America, and Other Utopias

    by Luis Camnitzer ...
    Series series Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture
    Artist, educator, curator, and critic Luis Camnitzer has been writing about contemporary art ever since he left his native Uruguay in 1964 for a fellowship in New York City. As a transplant from the "periphery" to the "center," Camnitzer has had to confront fundamental questions about making art in the Americas, asking himself and others: What is "Latin American art"? How does it relate (if it ... Read more

    $24.79 CAD

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    Through close readings of the painted images in a major sixteenth-century illustrated manuscript, this book demonstrates the critical role that images played in ethnic identity formation and politics in colonial Mexico.The Relación de Michoacán (1539–1541) is one of the earliest surviving illustrated manuscripts from colonial Mexico. Commissioned by the Spanish viceroy Antonio de Mendoza, the ... Read more

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  • The Art of Transition

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    by Francine Masiello, Walter D. Mignolo, Irene Silverblatt, Sonia Saldívar-Hull ...
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    Series series Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas
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  • Cosmopolitanism in Mexican Visual Culture

    by María Fernández ...
    Series series Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture
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    Series series Caribbean Studies Series
    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 might seem an unlikely foundry for art. Yet, on the street's opposite end thrives the Grand Rue Galerie, a working studio of assembled art and ... Read more

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