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Velázquez : [Metropolitan Museum of Art, from October 3, 1989, to January 7, 1990
Shows and describes all of Velazquez's major works.
Flamenco
Flamenco is renowned for its passion and flamboyance. Yet because it generates such visceral responses, it is often overlooked as a site for subtler discourses. This absorbing book articulates powerful and convincing arguments on such key subjects as ethnicity, irony, authenticity, the body and resistance. Franco's 'politics of original sin' had left its mark on every aspect of Spanish life between 1936 and 1975, and flamenco music was no exception. Although widely portrayed as an apolitical, even frivolous form of entertainment, flamenco is shown here to have played a role in both the strategies of Franco's supporters and of those who opposed him. The author explores how the meaning of flamenco shifts according to the social, cultural and historical contexts within which it appears. In so doing, he demonstrates that flamenco is an ideal subject for analyzing the construction and appropriation of popular culture, given the way in which it was developed for middle-class audiences, converted into grand spectacle, and conscripted to serve political ends.
Vistas de España
In the decades following the American Civil War and leading up to the First World War, a definitive shift in power took place between Spain and the United States. This original book explores American artists’ perceptions of Spain during this period of turmoil and demonstrates how their responses to Spanish art helped to answer emerging, complex questions about American national identity. M. Elizabeth Boone focuses on works by Thomas Eakins, Mary Cassatt, William Merritt Chase, John Singer Sargent, Robert Henri, and other American artists who traveled to Spain to study the achievements of such great masters as Murillo, Velázquez, and Goya. The resulting American paintings, some well known and others now largely forgotten, provide intriguing insights not only into the 19th-century American struggle to define itself as an imperial power but also into the relations between the United States and the Spanish-speaking world today.
Between Court and Confessional
Between Court and Confessional explores the lives of Spanish inquisitors, closely examining the careers and writings of five sixteenth- and seventeenth-century inquisitors. Kimberly Lynn considers what shaped particular inquisitors, what kinds of official experience each accumulated, and to what ends each directed his acquired knowledge and experience. The case studies examine the complex interplay of careerism and ideological commitments evident in inquisitorial activities. Whereas many studies of the Spanish Inquisition tend to depict inquisitors as faceless and interchangeable, Lynn probes the lives of individual inquisitors to show how inquisitors' operations in their social, political, religious and intellectual worlds set the Inquisition in motion. By focusing on specific individuals, this study explains how the theory and regulations of the Inquisition were rooted in local conditions, particular disputes and individual experiences.
Acclaimed Press Coverage of Latin American Countries
This volume contains award-winning articles and pictures from various Latin American countries. It tells stories about German Nazi members in Uruguay, the dictatorial Peron regime in Argentina, the brutal Batista Government in Cuba and Fidel Castro, facets of the Civil War in El Salvador, politics and poverty on Haiti, and the effects of drug corruption in Mexico. (Series: Pulitzer Prize Panorama, Vol. 16) [Subject: Latin American Studies, Politics, History, Media Studies]
Honey Island Swamp Child
Disquiet is a feeling of unease when there is nothing obviously amiss. There is no monster chasing you, no claws tearing at your back - but the shadows on the stairs are shifting, and your reason is at war with the pricking of your anxious instincts. Disquiet is what you call a wrongness with no name. In this autumnal anthology, a group of largely debut female authors make their mark on contemporary literature: In fiction and autobiography, poetry and fantasy, these stories share one common thread - profound disquiet. Honey Island Swamp Child explores those shadows which linger at the edges of our collective psyche; it taunts you and guides you as you map the bruises of our contemporary conscience, bolder and brighter with every passing page. Honey Island Press is an independent publisher of stories, poems, and essays by authors worldwide. This collection showcases exclusively female voices, and features work by Porscha Fayard, Katie Wills, Q. Sears, Dana Moyer, Nancy Jo Manly, Maria Velazquez, and Avalon A Manly.
Velázquez's Fables
This meticulous edition is a descriptive catalogue including illustrations of all the works appearing in the exhibition.
Routledge Handbook of Afro-Latin American Studies
This Handbook provides a comprehensive roadmap to the burgeoning area of Afro-Latin American Studies. Afro-Latins as a civilization developed during the period of slavery, obtaining cultural contributions from Indigenous and European worlds, while today they are enriched by new social configurations derived from contemporary migrations from Africa. The essays collected in this volume speak to scientific production that has been promoted in the region from the humanities and social sciences with the aim of understanding the phenomenon of the African diaspora as a specific civilizing element. With contributions from world-leading figures in their fields overseen by an eminent international editorial board, this Handbook features original, authoritative articles organized in four coherent parts: • Disciplinary Studies; • Problem Focused Fields; • Regional and Country Approaches; • Pioneers of Afro-Latin American Studies. The Routledge Handbook of Afro-Latin American Studies will not only serve as the major reference text in the area of Afro-Latin American Studies but will also provide the agenda for future new research.
