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Latin American Culture and the Limits of the Human
This volume explores works from Latin American literary and visual culture that question what it means to be human and examine the ways humans and nonhumans shape one another. In doing so, it provides new perspectives on how the region challenges and adds to global conversations about humanism and the posthuman. Contributors identify posthumanist themes across a range of different materials, including an anecdote about a plague of rabbits in Historia de las Indias by Spanish historian Bartolomé de las Casas, photography depicting desert landscapes at the site of Brazil’s War of Canudos, and digital and installation art portraying victims of state-sponsored and drug violence in Colombia an...
An Anthropology of Contemporary Art
Drawing on the exciting developments that have occurred in the anthropology of art over the last twenty years, this study uses ethnographic methods to explore shifts in the art market and global contemporary art. Recognizing that the huge diversity of global phenomena requires research on the ground, An Anthropology of Contemporary Art examines the local art markets, biennials, networks of collectors, curators, artists, patrons, auction houses, and museums that constitute the global art world.Divided into four parts – Picture and Medium; World Art Studies and Global Art; Art Markets, Maecenas and Collectors; Participatory Art and Collaboration – chapters go beyond the standard emphasis o...
Transnational Portuguese Studies
Transnational Portuguese Studies offers a radical rethinking of the role played by the concepts of ‘nationhood’ and ‘the nation’ in the epistemologies that underpin Portuguese Studies as an academic discipline. Portuguese Studies offers a particularly rich and enlightening challenge to methodological nationalism in Modern Languages, not least because the teaching of Portuguese has always extended beyond the study of the single western European country from which the language takes its name. However, this has rarely been analysed with explicit, or critical, reference to the ‘transnational turn’ in Arts and Humanities. This volume of essays from leading scholars in Portugal, Brazil...
Taking Form, Making Worlds
2023 LASA Visual Culture Studies Section Book Prize, Latin American Studies Association (LASA) The first comprehensive study of cartonera, a vibrant publishing phenomenon born in Latin America. A publishing phenomenon and artistic project, cartonera was born in the wake of Argentina’s 2001 economic crisis. Infused with a rebellious spirit, it has exploded in popularity, with hundreds of publishers across Latin America and Europe making colorful, low-cost books out of cardboard salvaged from the street. Taking Form, Making Worlds is the first comprehensive study of cartonera. Drawing on interdisciplinary research conducted across Mexico, Brazil, and Argentina, the authors show how this hand...
20th Contemporary Art Festival Sesc_Videobrasil / Southern Panoramas
The desire to investigate different areas of knowledge and their limits resonates strongly in the works selected for the 20th Contemporary Art Festival Sesc_Videobrasil. The principle pervades the publication dedicated to the selection, produced as a catalog-encyclopedia with entries on concepts, fields of knowledge and countries alongside entries on works and artists. The graphic design recreates traditional elements of encyclopedias, while the book expands the audience's contact with the context of this production and its interacting concepts. This ebook contains images that are best viewed on tablets.
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Nas asas de Ícaro
"A obra Nas asas de Ícaro consolida Gabriel Elias Josende como poeta." - Carina Balzan, Doutora em Letras. "Cada poema deste livro é um pequeno organismo vivo esperando que os leitores o alimentem com sua análise, sua interpretação, seu envolvimento emocional." - Maiquel Röhrig, Doutor em Letras. Nas asas de Ícaro é o segundo livro do poeta Gabriel Elias Josende, e o primeiro sob seu nome artístico OLYMPUZ. O livro traz dezenas de poesias que tratam de diferentes temáticas, desde uma fé incomum a desavenças com amizades e amores incompreendidos. Há muito o que explorar por estas páginas. Que você, leitor, possa voar Nas asas de Ícaro e se aventurar por estes poemas.
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Las Alas de Ícaro
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El retorno de Ícaro
La naturaleza - La vida - El hombre - Homo Sapiens - Homo Sapiens : lo bello, el sexo y el amor - La sociedad : ética y política - Los dioses.
