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"There is an a historical debt to female mural painters in Mexico. If documented at all, their involvement in one of the countryœs most important cultural movements is most often presented as secondary. This book reconstructs and reclaims the art practice of women who took part in and reshaped this cultural phenomenon. Each of these womenœs bodies of work opens up new perspectives on the history of Muralism in Mexico."--Dina Comisarenco Mirkin.
The photographers discussed in this book probe the most contentious aspects of social organization in Mexico, questioning what it means to belong, to be Mexican, to experience modernity, and to create art as a culturally, politically, or racially marginalized person. By choosing human subjects, spaces, and aesthetics excluded from the Lettered City, each of the photographers discussed in this volume produces a corpus of art that contests dominant narratives of social and cultural modernization in Mexico. Taken together, their work represents diverging and diverse notions of what is meant by Mexican modernity. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, history of photography, women’s studies, and Mexican studies.
"This book discusses how some works of art produced in Latin America in the sixties, seventies, and eighties forged a different understanding of the female body, understood as space for the expression of a dissident subjectivity in relation to socially normalized places. Representations of art and of feminist activism interrogated the disciplining of the female body that entails as well the disciplining of the male body. Before a history of highly regulated artistic representations-regardless of the occasional exceptions a historian might point out-images erupted that questioned the social and institutional naturalization of the feminine and the masculine"--
En los últimos veinte años, las publicaciones sobre los diseños en América Latina han comenzado a revelar la diversidad y riqueza que presentan sus distintas historias. Una diversidad que no responde solamente a las características disímiles que asumen las disciplinas proyectuales en los distintos países de la región, sino también a las diferentes concepciones, ideas y enfoques con los que se ha construido y configurado el objeto diseño a lo largo de la historia de cada país. Este libro ha querido poner de relieve ese cruce de caminos, interrogar ese lugar pleno de diversidades. Como resultado de un proceso consciente, se ofrecen diez ensayos escritos por autores provenientes de l...
This publication brings together six artists and designers working in Mexico at midcentury who expanded the horizons of modernism.
"A groundbreaking look at avant-garde art and literature in the wake of the Mexican Revolution, illustrating Mexico City's importance as a major center for the development of modernism"--Provided by publisher.
Latter-day Saint Art: A Critical Reader seeks to fill a substantial gap by providing a comprehensive examination of the visual art of the Latter-day Saints from the nineteenth century to the present. The volume includes twenty-two essays examining art by, for, or about Mormons, as well as over 200 high-quality color illustrations.
Beginning with Number 41 (1979), the University of Texas Press became the publisher of the Handbook of Latin American Studies, the most comprehensive annual bibliography in the field. Compiled by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress and annotated by a corps of specialists in various disciplines, the Handbook alternates from year to year between social sciences and humanities. The Handbook annotates works on Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean and the Guianas, Spanish South America, and Brazil, as well as materials covering Latin America as a whole. Most of the subsections are preceded by introductory essays that serve as biannual evaluations of the literature and research underway in specialized areas.