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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

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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

    $24.99 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

  • Beyond the Supersquare

    Art and Architecture in Latin America after Modernism

    Edited by Antonio Sergio Bessa ...
    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 curators whose research examines architecture and urban designpractices in the region during a significant period of the twentieth century. Drawing ... 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

    $24.79 CAD

  • The Paradise Garden Murals of Malinalco

    Utopia and Empire in Sixteenth-Century Mexico

    by Jeanette Favrot Peterson ...
    Winner, Charles Rufus Morey Award, 1993The valley of Malinalco, Mexico, long renowned for its monolithic Aztec temples, is a microcosm of the historical changes that occurred in the centuries preceding and following the Spanish conquest in the sixteenth century. In particular, the garden frescoes uncovered in 1974 at the Augustinian monastery of Malinalco document the collision of the European ... Read more

    $35.19 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

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Kuna Art and Shamanism

    An Ethnographic Approach

    by Paolo Fortis ...
    Known for their beautiful textile art, the Kuna of Panama have been scrutinized by anthropologists for decades. Perhaps surprisingly, this scrutiny has overlooked the magnificent Kuna craft of nuchukana—wooden anthropomorphic carvings—which play vital roles in curing and other Kuna rituals. Drawing on long-term fieldwork, Paolo Fortis at last brings to light this crucial cultural facet, ... Read more

    $24.79 CAD

  • Wolf Tracks

    Popular Art and Re-Africanization in Twentieth-Century Panama

    by Peter Szok ...
    Series series Caribbean Studies Series
    Popular art is a masculine and working-class genre, associated with Panama's black population. Its practitioners are self-taught, commercial painters, whose high-toned designs, vibrant portraits, and landscapes appear in cantinas, barbershops, and restaurants. The red devil buses are popular art's most visible manifestation. The old school buses are imported from the United States and provide ... Read more

    $60.99 CAD

  • Resisting Categories: Latin American and/or Latino?

    by Mari Carmen Ramirez, Tomas Ybarra-Frausto, Hector Olea ...
    This first volume of the Critical Documents of 20th-Century Latin American and Latino Art series published by the International Center for the Arts of the Americas at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, presents 168 crucial texts written by influential artists, critics, curators, journalists, and intellectuals whose writings shed light on questions relating to what it means to be "Latin American" ... Read more

    $65.99 CAD

  • On the Lips of Others

    Moteuczoma's Fame in Aztec Monuments and Rituals

    by Patrick Thomas Hajovsky ...
    Series series Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas
    Moteuczoma, the last king who ruled the Aztec Empire, was rarely seen or heard by his subjects, yet his presence was felt throughout the capital city of Tenochtitlan, where his deeds were recorded in hieroglyphic inscriptions on monuments and his command was expressed in highly refined ritual performances. What did Moteuczoma’s “fame” mean in the Aztec world? How was it created and maintained? In ... Read more

    $54.39 CAD

  • 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