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Frontalismo. Facundo de Zuviría
El fotógrafo Facundo de Zuviría (Argentina 1954) siempre fotografió las fachadas de frente, buscando en esas líneas simples y austeras rasgos definitorios de su esencia y un modo objetivo de representación. Con esta idea se propuso confeccionar una especie de catálogo personal de fachadas urbanas, viviendas de clase media en los barrios, tiendas modestas y algunas otras cuyo significado parece difícil de precisar.
Facundo de Zuviría
Esta obra forma parte de la "Colección Salta en la Historia Política y Cultural de la Argentina", que responde a un proyecto editorial y educativo de gran proyección: presentar un conjunto de obras breves que pretenden rescatar del olvido a una serie de personalidades de la provincia de Salta, que realizaron un aporte significativo a la conformación del pensamiento y la historia política, social y cultural de nuestro país. Facundo de Zuviría fue un lúcido testigo de la gesta del pueblo salteño y de su heroico general, empeñada en la inclaudicable defensa de la patria naciente. Tras la dramática muerte de Güemes, Zuviría fue quien negoció con los realistas el armisticio que restableció la paz en el norte argentino y el Alto Perú. Redactó la primera Constitución de Salta, que tuvo una larga vigencia incluso durante el tumultuoso período de la Anarquía Nacional. Presidente de ese Congreso que aprobó la Constitución Nacional vigente en la actualidad.
Decolonial Ecologies
In Decolonial Ecologies: The Reinvention of Natural History in Latin American Art, Joanna Page illuminates the ways in which contemporary artists in Latin America are reinventing historical methods of collecting, organizing, and displaying nature in order to develop new aesthetic and political perspectives on the past and the present. Page brings together an entirely new corpus of artistic projects from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, and Peru that engage critically and creatively with forms as diverse as the medieval bestiary, baroque cabinets of curiosities, atlases created by European travellers to the New World, the floras and herbaria composed by eighteenth- and nin...
Cosmopolitan Film Cultures in Latin America, 1896–1960
Cosmopolitan Film Cultures in Latin America examines how cinema forged cultural connections between Latin American publics and film-exporting nations in the first half of the twentieth century. Predating today's transnational media industries by several decades, these connections were defined by active economic and cultural exchanges, as well as longstanding inequalities in political power and cultural capital. The essays explore the arrival and expansion of cinema throughout the region, from the first screenings of the Lumière Cinématographe in 1896 to the emergence of new forms of cinephilia and cult spectatorship in the 1940s and beyond. Examining these transnational exchanges through t...
Other Cities, Other Worlds
Other Cities, Other Worlds brings together leading scholars of cultural theory, urban studies, art, anthropology, literature, film, architecture, and history to look at non-Western global cities. The contributors focus on urban imaginaries, the ways that city dwellers perceive or imagine their own cities. Paying particular attention to the historical and cultural dimensions of urban life, they bring to their essays deep knowledge of the cities they are bound to in their lives and their work. Taken together, these essays allow us to compare metropolises from the so-called periphery and gauge processes of cultural globalization, illuminating the complexities at stake as we try to imagine other...
Appropriation as Practice
How the "traffic in culture" is practiced, rationalized and experienced by visual artists in the globalized world. The book focuses on artistic practices in the appropriation of indigenous cultures, and the construction of new Latin American identities. Appropriation is the fundamental theoretical concept developed to understand these processes.
Adolfo Bioy Casares
This volume reconsiders the work and cultural import of Adolfo Bioy Casares (1914-1999), who is best known for his collaborations with Jorge Luis Borges.
Photography in Argentina
From its independence in 1810 until the economic crisis of 2001, Argentina has been seen, in the national and international collective imaginary, as a modern country with a powerful economic system, a massive European immigrant population, an especially strong middle class, and an almost nonexistent indigenous culture. In some ways, the early history of Argentina strongly resembles that of the United States, with its march to the prairies and frontier ideology, the image of the cowboy as a national symbol (equivalent to the Argentine gaucho), the importance of the immigrant population, and the advanced and liberal ideas of the founding fathers. But did Argentine history truly follow a linear...
Spectacle and Topophilia
Significant places and spaces, from Granada and Catalonia to Buenos Aires and the Chicago Columbian Exposition
The Critical Eye
Based on the highly successful course at the School of Visual Arts developed by the author, this book provides a comprehensive approach to the critical understanding of photography through an in-depth discussion of fifteen photographs and their contexts – historical, generic, biographical and aesthetic. This book presents an intensive course in looking at photographs, open to undergraduates and general audiences alike. Rexer argues that by concentrating on fifteen carefully chosen works it is possible to understand the history, development and contemporary situation of photography. Looking to images by photographers such as Roland Fischer, Nancy Rexroth and Ernest Cole, The Critical Eye is the only book to address the totality of issues involved in photography, from authorial self-consciousness to the role of the audience. Its subjects are not limited to art photography but include vernacular images, commercial genres and anthropology. With every chapter it seeks to link the history of photography to current practice. This highly illustrated and beautiful book provides a much-needed introduction to image production.
