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The Rescue
Praise for The Rescue "Steven Trent Smith grapples boldly with several big subjects: the Japanese occupation of the Philippines; the capture of Japan's 'Z Plan' (the decisive-battle strategy for destroying the U.S. Pacific Fleet); the rescue by submarine of forty Americans stranded in the Philippines; the climactic Battle of the Philippine Sea. Meticulously researched and well written, The Rescue ties these elements together into an epic that is emotionally engaging from start to rousing finish." -Martin Russ, author of Breakout and The Last Parallel "Smith's thoroughly researched, detailed account of the brave American and Filipino guerrillas on Negros Island in the Philippines will do much...
Surveying the Avant-Garde
Surveying the Avant-Garde examines the art and literature of the Americas in the early twentieth century through the lens of the questionnaire, a genre as central as the manifesto to the history of the avant-garde. Questions such as “How do you imagine Latin America?” and “What should American art be?” issued by avant-garde magazines like Imán, a Latin American periodical based in Paris, and Cuba’s Revista de Avance demonstrate how editors, writers, and readers all grappled with the concept of “America,” particularly in relationship to Europe, and how the questionnaire became a structuring device for reflecting on their national and aesthetic identities in print. Through an an...
Magazines, Tourism, and Nation-Building in Mexico
This open access book discusses the relationship between periodicals, tourism, and nation-building in Mexico. It enquires into how magazines, a staple form of the promotional apparatus of tourism since its inception, articulated an imaginative geography of Mexico at a time when that industry became a critical means of economic recovery and political stability after the Revolution. Notwithstanding their vogue, popularity, reach, and close affiliations to commerce and state over several decades, magazines have not received any sustained critical attention in the scholarship on that period. This book aims to redress that oversight. It argues that illustrated magazines like Mexican Folkways (1925–1937) and Mexico This Month (1955–1971) offer rich and compelling materials in that regard, not only as unique tools for interrogating the ramifications of tourism on the country’s reconstruction, but as autonomous objects of study that form a vital if complex part of Mexico’s visual culture.
Julio Galán
From his provincial origins in the small northern Mexico town of Múzquiz, Coahuila, to his meteoric rise in Manhattan's East Village art scene, to having achieved international standing at the time of his early death at forty-seven, Julio Galán was radically transgressive. The artist extended contemporary Mexican painting beyond the cultural criticism of Neo-Mexicanism (neomexicanismo), redefining Mexican identity as gender-expansive in his art. Galán combined gender-fluid imagery, his performative persona, queer self-representation, and cross-cultural visual and textual references to create large-scale, layered, dialogical visual puzzles. An artist ahead of his time, Galán's content and imagery is relevant to contemporary LGBTQ+ social movements. Replete with full-color reproductions of Galán's artwork and photographic material, Teresa Eckmann's book serves as the first English-language monograph on the artist's life and work. Anyone interested in art in Mexico and Latin America will find this book an indispensable addition to their library, and it will be a core book on the study of this artist for decades to come.
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Estética de las imágenes y sus representaciones sociales
En el libro Cuadernos Amest # 3 titulado "Estética de las imágenes y sus representaciones sociales" se presenta un estudio de la incidencia de las formas estéticas en diversas expresiones culturales y amplía el acercamiento a las formas sensibles en las sociedades contemporáneas. La pertinencia del texto es presentar, desde diversas especialidades disciplinares, la posible decodificación de estas imágenes con el fin de liberar la experiencia de los sujetos, desde la puesta en cuestión del mundo de la representación social a través de las imágenes que consumimos diariamente. ¿Hasta qué punto podemos desatar la experiencia estética de los individuos inmersos en una sociedad posmo...
2017
Futurism Studies in its canonical form has followed in the steps of Marinetti's concept of Futurisme mondial, according to which Futurism had its centre in Italy and a large number of satellites around Europe and the rest of the globe. Consequently, authors of textbook histories of Futurism focus their attention on Italy, add a chapter or two on Russia and dedicate next to no attention to developments in other parts of the world. Futurism Studies tends to sees in Marinetti's movement the font and mother of all subsequent avant-gardes and deprecates the non-European variants as mere 'derivatives'. Vol. 7 of the International Yearbook of Futurism Studies will focus on one of these regions outs...
Voces sobre la desaparición forzada de infantes durante la guerra en El Salvador
Como parte de los Acuerdos de Paz, con los que culminó la guerra en El Salvador de los años ochenta, se acordó la creación de una Comisión de la Verdad que diera cuenta de las graves violaciones a los derechos humanos ocurridas durante el enfrentamiento armado. Cumpliendo su mandato, la Comisión recopiló testimonios e indagó acerca de las violaciones a los derechos humanos durante la guerra y, luego de seis meses de trabajos, publicó su informe "De la locura a la esperanza. La guerra de doce años en El Salvador". El texto es una exposición de los horrores de la guerra, a través de la muestra de casos representativos de acciones sistemáticas de violencia, así como aquellos que p...
[Tiempo suspendido]
Durante los gobiernos de Luis Echeverría (1970-1976) y José López Portillo (1976-1982), sistemáticamente se negó que en México hubiera existido una estrategia para eliminar a un sector de la disidencia política, principalmente los grupos guerrilleros, y se construyó la imagen de México como un caso excepcional, que no había formado parte de esa gran familia latinoamericana de regímenes autoritarios y dictatoriales, esta narrativa se mantuvo casi intacta durante los gobiernos subsecuentes. De la misma manera, hasta hace poco tiempo, los estudios sobre las violencias de Estado en México fueron desplazados de las preocupaciones de las ciencias sociales: puestas las miradas sobre la ...
