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Colección de esculturas africanas Vicente Huidobro
Exhibition of the collection of 30 sub-Saharan African sculptures (29 figures and one mask) collected by poet Vicente Huidiboro during the first decades of the 20th century and at present part of the holdings of the MNBA and the National Museum of History in Chile. This book-catalogue is the resulting work by Dr Montoya Aguilar after a 10-year research of the collection of metal and wood carved sculptures, mostly created in the former French colonies in Africa, from the Ivory Coast to Congo.
Humanities
Beginning with volume 41 (1979), the University of Texas Press became the publisher of the Handbook of Latin American Studies, the most comprehensive annual bibliography in the field. Compiled by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress and annotated by a corps of more than 130 specialists in various disciplines, the Handbook alternates from year to year between social sciences and humanities. The Handbook annotates works on Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean and the Guianas, Spanish South America, and Brazil, as well as materials covering Latin America as a whole. Most of the subsections are preceded by introductory essays that serve as biannual evaluations of the literature and research under way in specialized areas. The Handbook of Latin American Studies is the oldest continuing reference work in the field. Lawrence Boudon became the editor in 2000. The subject categories for Volume 58 are as follows: Electronic Resources for the Humanities Art History (including ethnohistory) Literature (including translations from the Spanish and Portuguese) Philosophy: Latin American Thought Music
National Galleries
Are national galleries different from other kinds of art gallery or museum? What value is there for the nation in a collection of international masterpieces? How are national galleries involved in the construction national art? National Galleries is the first book to undertake a panoramic view of a type of national institution – which are sometimes called national museums of fine art – that is now found in almost every nation on earth. Adopting a richly illustrated, globally inclusive, comparative view, Simon Knell argues that national galleries should not be understood as ‘great galleries’ but as peculiar sites where art is made to perform in acts of nation building. A book that fun...
Viajes en el arte
The exhibition reviews the individual experiences of Chilean artists since the mid-19th century, who changed their destiny to perfect themselves, meet new places and people, to move away for political reasons, or to create new artistic strategies. "In the 19th century and late 20h century, travel in art meant that culture had its center in Europe and that every artist from these latitudes had to meet the requirement of training according to the dominant model. During the 1860s the state scholarship competitions for artistic training were implemented, mainly to Paris, generating a flow, not always regular, of transfers and appropriations that can be seen in this exhibition. Today, the world has become globalized, distances have been neutralized with technological means, digital images of art are available from any point and the center-periphery logic no longer prefigures in the same way in the movements of art." (HKB Translation) Page 12. Catalogue also includes texts on selected artworks by 12 specialists such as: Solène Bergot, Josefina de la Maza, Rosita Droguet, María José Escudero, , Patricia Herrera, Valentina Lazo, Juan Manuel Martínez and Marisol Richter.
Inverted Utopias
In the twentieth century, avant-garde artists from Mexico, Central and South America, and the Caribbean created extraordinary and highly innovative paintings, sculptures, assemblages, mixed-media works, and installations. This innovative book presents more than 250 works by some seventy of these artists (including Gego, Joaquin Torres-Garcia, Xul Solar, and Jose Clemente Orozco) and artists' groups, along with interpretive essays by leading authorities and newly translated manifestoes and other theoretical documents written by the artists. Together the images and texts showcase the astonishing artistic achievements of the Latin American avant-garde. The book focuses on two decisive periods: the return from Europe in the 1920s of Latin American avant-garde pioneers; and the expansion of avant-garde activities throughout Latin America after World War II as artists expressed their independence from developments in Europe and the United States. As the authors explain, during these periods Latin American art was fueled by the belief that artistic creations could present a form of utopia - an inversion of the original premise that drove the European avant-garde - and serve as a model for
The Precarious
Two works in one. this is an exquisite art book offering the first comprehensive treatment of Vicuna's work in English.
National Union Catalog
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
The Colonial Andes
"This unique volume illustrates and discusses in detail more than 160 extraordinary fine and decorative art works of the colonial Andes, including examples of the intricate Inca weavings and metalwork that preceded the colonial era as well as a few of the remarkably inventive forms this art took after independence from Spain. An international array of scholars and experts examines the cultural context, aesthetic preoccupations, and diverse themes of art from the viceregal period, particularly the florid patternings and the fanciful beasts and hybrid creatures that have come to characterize colonial Andean art."--Jacket.
