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  • Revolutionary Horizons

    Art and Polemics in 1950s Cuba

    by Abigail McEwen ...
    Modernism in Havana reached its climax during the turbulent years of the 1950s as a generation of artists took up abstraction as a means to advance artistic and political goals in the name of Cuba Libre. During a decade of insurrection and, ultimately, revolution, abstract art signaled the country’s cultural worldliness and its purchase within the international avant-garde. This pioneering book ... Read more

    $67.49 USD

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  • The Domino Diaries

    My Decade Boxing with Olympic Champions and Chasing Hemingway's Ghost in the Last Days of Castro's Cuba

    by Brin-Jonathan Butler ...
    A powerful and lively work of immersive journalism, Brin-Jonathan Butler's The Domino Diaries tells the story of his time chasing the American dream through Cuba.Whether he's hustling his way into Mike Tyson's mansion for an interview, betting his life savings on a boxing match, becoming romantically entangled with one of Fidel Castro's granddaughters, or simply manufacturing press credentials to ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Jasper Johns

    Abstract Truth in Iconic Form

    by Catherine Craft ...
    At a time when the dominant mode of painting, Abstract Expressionism, emphasised expressive drama through bold brushwork and largely abstract compositions, Johns’ paintings of the American flag, targets, numbers and the alphabet demonstrated a decided departure from convention. Despite being painted with obvious care, they seemed emotionally reticent, cool and quiet, far from the emotional ... Read more

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  • From a Nation Torn

    Decolonizing Art and Representation in France, 1945-1962

    by Hannah Feldman ...
    Series series Art History Publication Initiative
    From a Nation Torn provides a powerful critique of art history's understanding of French modernism and the historical circumstances that shaped its production and reception. Within art history, the aesthetic practices and theories that emerged in France from the late 1940s into the 1960s are demarcated as postwar. Yet it was during these very decades that France fought a protracted series of wars ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Globalization and Contemporary Art

    Edited by Jonathan Harris ...
    In a series of newly commissioned essays by both established and emerging scholars, Globalization and Contemporary Art probes the effects of internationalist culture and politics on art across a variety of media. Globalization and Contemporary Art is the first anthology to consider the role and impact of art and artist in an increasingly borderless world.First major anthology of essays concerned ... Read more

    $42.00 USD

  • 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

    $23.79 USD

  • 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

    $17.99 USD

  • 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

    $31.49 USD

  • The DIY Movement in Art, Music and Publishing

    Subjugated Knowledges

    by Sarah Lowndes ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
    This book considers the history of Do It Yourself art, music and publishing, demonstrating how DIY strategies have transitioned from being marginal, to emergent, to embedded. Through secondary research, observation and 30 original interviews, each chapter analyses one of 15 creative cities (San Francisco, Los Angeles, Dusseldorf, New York, London, Manchester, Cologne, Washington DC, Detroit, ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • The Power and Politics of Art in Postrevolutionary Mexico

    by Stephanie J. Smith ...
    Stephanie J. Smith brings Mexican politics and art together, chronicling the turbulent relations between radical artists and the postrevolutionary Mexican state. The revolution opened space for new political ideas, but by the late 1920s many government officials argued that consolidating the nation required coercive measures toward dissenters. While artists and intellectuals, some of them ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Urban Space as Heritage in Late Colonial Cuba

    Classicism and Dissonance on the Plaza de Armas of Havana, 1754-1828

    by Paul Niell ...
    Series series Latin American and Caribbean Arts and Culture Publication Initiative, Mellon Foundation
    According to national legend, Havana, Cuba, was founded under the shade of a ceiba tree whose branches sheltered the island’s first Catholic mass and meeting of the town council (cabildo) in 1519. The founding site was first memorialized in 1754 by the erection of a baroque monument in Havana’s central Plaza de Armas, which was reconfigured in 1828 by the addition of a neoclassical work, El ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Antiracism in Cuba

    The Unfinished Revolution

    by Devyn Spence Benson ...
    Series series Envisioning Cuba
    Analyzing the ideology and rhetoric around race in Cuba and south Florida during the early years of the Cuban revolution, Devyn Spence Benson argues that ideas, stereotypes, and discriminatory practices relating to racial difference persisted despite major efforts by the Cuban state to generate social equality. Drawing on Cuban and U.S. archival materials and face-to-face interviews, Benson ... Read more

    $18.99 USD