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An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter
An astounding novel from Argentina that is a meditation on the beautiful and the grotesque in nature, the art of landscape painting, and one experience in a man's life that became a lightning rod for inspiration. An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter is the story of a moment in the life of the German artist Johan Moritz Rugendas (1802-1858). Greatly admired as a master landscape painter, he was advised by Alexander von Humboldt to travel West from Europe to record the spectacular landscapes of Chile, Argentina, and Mexico. Rugendas did in fact become one of the best of the nineteenth-century European painters to venture into Latin America. However this is not a biography of Rugendas....
Ghosts
Captures a fictional moment in the life of the German artist Johann Moritz Rugendas while on the pampas of Argentina.
Johann Moritz Rugendas: memorias de un artista apasionado
Por la vastedad e importancia de su obra gráfica, Johann Moritz Rugendas ha sido denominado “el Humboldt de la pintura en Latinoamérica”. Este ensayo biográfico explora las múltiples dimensiones del viaje realizado por el célebre pintor y dibujante alemán en nuestro continente: las circunstancias geográficas interpuestas en su recorrido, los acontecimientos históricos y las repercusiones de ellos en su existencia, pero esencialmente la exploración estética que condujo a este creador desde el dibujo académico hasta la visión expresionista de nuestra realidad.
Slave Life in Rio de Janeiro, 1808-1850
Rio de Janeiro in the first half of the nineteenth century had the largest population of urban slaves in the Americas—primary contributors to the atmosphere and vitality of the city. Although most urban historians have ignored these inhabitants of Rio, Mary Karasch's generously illustrated study provides a comprehensive description and analysis of the city's rich Afro-Cariocan culture, including its folklore, its songs, and accounts of its oral history. Professor Karasch's investigation of the origins of Rio's slaves demonstrates the importance of the "Central Africaness" of the slave population to an understanding of its culture. Challenging the thesis of the comparative mildness of the B...
Rugendas e o Brasil
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Capoeira
Capoeira is an Afro-Brazilian martial art now spreading over the rest of the world and this book, the only complete history of the art in the English language, traces the history of the martial art and examines its influence.
In Mexican Prisons
Popular history has not venerated Eduard Harkort as a hero of either Santa Anna’s 1832 uprising in Mexico or the Texas Revolution against the revolutionary-turned-dictator. The journal of Harkort, a middle-class German mining engineer, recorded during his two years of fighting and imprisonment in Mexico, reveals the activities and feelings of a brave and multitalented man who withdrew from nineteenth-century corporate life and ultimately found himself in battle, before a firing squad, and in prison. First published in Germany in 1858 by Harkort’s son-in-law, the journal of Eduard Harkort has now been translated and annotated by Louis E. Brister. In Brister’s introduction, the journal itself, and Harkort’s letters to friends, readers can sense the harrowing experiences faced by Harkort, who had training in the Prussian army, during his adventures with the ragtag rebel army of Gen. Antonio López de Santa Anna. Thoroughly documented, this self-told tale of a foreigner’s adventures in the turbulent history of Mexico will capture the imagination of the reader and intrigue the scholar.
