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Resisting Categories: Latin American and/or Latino?
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1184

Resisting Categories: Latin American and/or Latino?

  • Categories: Art

DIV 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" and/or "Latino." Reinforced within a critical framework, the documents address converging issues, including: the construct of "Latin-ness" itself; the persistent longing for a continental identity; notions of Pan–Latin Americanism; the emergence of collections and exhibitions devoted specificall...

A Seamless Web
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 215

A Seamless Web

  • Categories: Art

In recent years, American art scholars have increasingly focused on the importance of cross-cultural exchanges during the nineteenth century. As essayist François Brunet puts it, mid-nineteenth century landscapes were “transnational . . . permeated by complex transactions where ‘American’ originality produced itself not only in imitation of or reaction against ‘European’ influences, . . . but as critical mirroring and incorporating of ‘European’ images.” Articles in this collection make clear that the “conversation of cultures” went both ways, with American artworks and culture also affecting European artistic and literary practice. Essays explore the transnational origi...

Thomas Hovenden
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 293

Thomas Hovenden

This first full-length study fosters a greater understanding of Hovenden's gifts as a painter and of his stylistic contribution to art. Chronologically organized, it is both a retrospective of Hovenden's work and a critical biography of the artist.

Annual Report - National Endowment for the Humanities
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 186

Annual Report - National Endowment for the Humanities

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1987
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Includes appendices.

National Endowment for the Humanities ... Annual Report
  • Language: en

National Endowment for the Humanities ... Annual Report

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1984
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Through the Kaleidoscope
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 324

Through the Kaleidoscope

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2000
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  • Publisher: Verso

Schelling's collection reflects the multi-layered, labyrinthine quality of modernity in Latin America, wedding new cultures to old, external to local, and high to popular.

The Rattle of Theta Chi
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 346

The Rattle of Theta Chi

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Trow (formerly Wilson's) Copartnership and Corporation Directory of the Boroughs of Manhattan and the Bronx, City of New York
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1282
Complete American Armoury and Blue Book
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 530

Complete American Armoury and Blue Book

This is the consolidated and unduplicated edition of three separate volumes on the armorial bearings of American families published between 1903 and 1923. All told, Matthews furnishes illustrations of some 1,500 coats of arms, complete with heraldic descriptions of the arms and crests.

Letters of Sister Nivedita - Volume 1
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 623

Letters of Sister Nivedita - Volume 1

A revised and enlarged edition of the Letters of Sister Nivedita in 2 volumes collected and edited by Prof. Sankari Prasad Basu. It comprises nearly a thousand letters from Sister Nivedita and also includes some received by her. This monumental new edition is to commemorate her 150th Birth Anniversary. The present Volume 1 contains letters penned in the years 1897—1904.