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  • The Shaman’s Mirror

    Visionary Art of the Huichol

    de Hope MacLean ...
    Huichol Indian yarn paintings are one of the world's great indigenous arts, sold around the world and advertised as authentic records of dreams and visions of the shamans. Using glowing colored yarns, the Huichol Indians of Mexico paint the mystical symbols of their culture—the hallucinogenic peyote cactus, the blue deer-spirit who appears to the shamans as they croon their songs around the fire ... Leer más

    $44.99 USD

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  • Kahlo

    de 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 ... Leer más

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  • Contracultura

    Alternative Arts and Social Transformation in Authoritarian Brazil

    de 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 ... Leer más

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

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $35.99 USD

  • The Art of Transition

    Latin American Culture and Neoliberal Crisis

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • María Izquierdo and Frida Kahlo

    Challenging Visions in Modern Mexican Art

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD

  • Beyond the Supersquare

    Art and Architecture in Latin America after Modernism

    Edición de 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 ... Leer más

    $35.99 USD

  • Art and Society in a Highland Maya Community

    The Altarpiece of Santiago Atitlán

    de 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. ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD

  • Kuna Art and Shamanism

    An Ethnographic Approach

    de 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, ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD

  • The Art of Joaquín Torres-García

    Constructive Universalism and the Inversion of Abstraction

    de Aarnoud Rommens ...
    Intertwining art history, aesthetic theory, and Latin American studies, Aarnoud Rommens challenges contemporary Eurocentric revisions of the history of abstraction through this study of the Uruguayan artist Joaquín Torres-García. After studying and painting (for decades) in Europe, Torres-García returned in 1934 to his native home, Montevideo, with the dream of reawakening and revitalizing what he ... Leer más

    $64.99 USD

  • Wolf Tracks

    Popular Art and Re-Africanization in Twentieth-Century Panama

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $39.99 USD

  • On the Lips of Others

    Moteuczoma's Fame in Aztec Monuments and Rituals

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $40.99 USD