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  • María Izquierdo and Frida Kahlo

    Challenging Visions in Modern Mexican Art

    by Nancy Deffebach ...
    Series series Latin American and Caribbean Arts and Culture Publication Initiative, Mellon Foundation
    María Izquierdo (1902–1955) and Frida Kahlo (1907–1954) were the first two Mexican women artists to achieve international recognition. During the height of the Mexican muralist movement, they established successful careers as easel painters and created work that has become an integral part of Mexican modernism. Although the iconic Kahlo is now more famous, the two artists had comparable ... Read more

    $42.59 CAD

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    by Gerry Souter ...
    Behind Frida Kahlo’s portraits, lies the story of both her life and work. It is precisely this combination that draws the reader in. Frida’s work is a record of her life, and rarely can we learn so much about an artist from what she records inside the picture frame. Frida Kahlo truly is Mexico’s gift to the history of art. She was just eighteen years old when a terrible bus accident changed her ... Read more

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  • Contracultura

    Alternative Arts and Social Transformation in Authoritarian Brazil

    by Christopher Dunn ...
    Christopher Dunn’s history of authoritarian Brazil exposes the inventive cultural production and intense social transformations that emerged during the rule of an iron-fisted military regime during the sixties and seventies. The Brazilian contracultura was a complex and multifaceted phenomenon that developed alongside the ascent of hardline forces within the regime in the late 1960s. Focusing on ... Read more

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  • The Relación de Michoacán (1539-1541) and the Politics of Representation in Colonial Mexico

    by Angélica Jimena Afanador-Pujol ...
    Series series Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas
    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

    $49.59 CAD

  • The Art of Transition

    Latin American Culture and Neoliberal Crisis

    by Francine Masiello, Walter D. Mignolo, Irene Silverblatt, Sonia Saldívar-Hull ...
    Series series Latin America Otherwise
    The Art of Transition addresses the problems defined by writers and artists during the postdictatorship years in Argentina and Chile, years in which both countries aggressively adopted neoliberal market-driven economies. Delving into the conflicting efforts of intellectuals to name and speak to what is real, Francine Masiello interprets the culture of this period as an art of transition, referring ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Art and Society in a Highland Maya Community

    The Altarpiece of Santiago Atitlán

    by Allen J. Christenson ...
    Series series The Linda Schele Series in Maya and Pre-Columbian Studies
    A study of a major piece of modern Mayan religious art. ... Read more

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  • José Clemente Orozco

    An Autobiography

    Translated by Robert C. Stephenson ...
    by José Clemente Orozco ...
    The artistic eminence of José Clemente Orozco (1883–1949) is such that he has been called “the greatest painter the Americas have produced.” In his Autobiography he also attains literary distinction. He is a writer who recounts the history of his period from a personal point of view and yet scarcely mentions himself. He is an observer who writes about the history of his country and of his country ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Diego Rivera

    The Muralist of Mexico’s Soul

    by Gerry Souter ...
    They met in 1928, Frida Kahlo was then 21 years old and Diego Rivera was twice her age. He was already an international reference, she only aspired to become one. An intense artistic creation, along with pain and suffering, was generated by this tormented union, in particular for Frida. Constantly in the shadow of her husband, bearing his unfaithfulness and her jealousy, Frida exorcised the pain ... Read more

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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
    Since the colonial era, Mexican art has emerged from an ongoing process of negotiation between the local and the global, which frequently involves invention, synthesis, and transformation of diverse discursive and artistic traditions. In this pathfinding book, María Fernández uses the concept of cosmopolitanism to explore this important aspect of Mexican art, in which visual culture and power ... Read more

    $59.99 CAD

  • Cubanisms

    A Look at Cuba through Art and Words

    by Pedro Menocal ...
    #1 Amazon Best Seller! ─ Cubanisms ─ The evolution of Cuban slang, Spanish slang, and SpanglishThe history of Spanish slang: Spanish is a unique language. From Argentina to Spain, accents, meanings, connotations and more get lost between borders. Cubanisms by Pedro García-Menocal details the diverse history of the Spanish language as it evolved in the Lost City.The humor of Spanish slang: With ... Read more

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  • The Colors of Life

    by Rosario (Chary) Castro-Marín, Emilio Ichikawa Morín ...
    Charys visual expression reveals simultaneously her displacement from and re-encounter with a nation that is marked by a long history of dispossession and cultural intermixing. Her art can perhaps be best understood in the context of the Cuban avant-garde movement, which, in turn, resonates against the costumbrista and paisajista movements. In addition to revealing a search for cultural origins, ... Read more

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  • The Inka Empire

    A Multidisciplinary Approach

    Edited by Izumi Shimada ...
    Series series The William and Bettye Nowlin Series in Art, History, and Culture of the Western Hemisphere
    Massive yet elegantly executed masonry architecture and andenes (agricultural terraces) set against majestic and seemingly boundless Andean landscapes, roads built in defiance of rugged terrains, and fine textiles with orderly geometric designs—all were created within the largest political system in the ancient New World, a system headed, paradoxically, by a single, small minority group without ... Read more

    $90.59 CAD