Browse by Subject: Arts

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Painting in a State of Exception: New Figuration in Argentina, 1960-1965

Although one of Latin America’s most significant postwar art movements, Nueva Figueración has long been overlooked in studies of modern art. In this first comprehensive examination of the movement, Patrick Frank explores the work of four artists at its heart--Ernesto Deira, Rómulo Macció, Luis Felipe Noé, and Jorge de la Vega--to demonstrate the importance of their work in the transnational development of modern art.

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Sensing Decolonial Aesthetics in Latin American Arts

Juan Ramos uses “decolonial aesthetics,” a theory that frees the idea of art from Eurocentric forms of expression and philosophies of the beautiful, to examine the long decade of the 1960s in Latin America—a time of cultural production that has not been studied extensively from a decolonial perspective.

 

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Telling Migrant Stories: Latin American Diaspora in Documentary Film

Telling Migrant Stories explores how contemporary documentary film gives voice to Latin American immigrants whose stories would not otherwise be heard. 

 

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Historic Architecture in the Caribbean Islands

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Simón Bolívar: Travels and Transformations of a Cultural Icon

In this volume, an array of international and interdisciplinary scholars shows the ways Bolívar has appeared over the last two centuries in painting, fiction, poetry, music, film, festival, dance, city planning, and even reliquary adoration. They illustrate how Bolívar’s body has been exalted, reimagined, or fragmented in different contexts, taking on a range of meanings to represent the politics and poetics of today’s national bodies.

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Wildman of Rhythm: The Life and Music of Benny Moré

The first English-language biography of the singer known as the Cuban Sinatra

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Embracing Cuba

Stunning photographs from the oft-misunderstood and once-forbidden island

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Cuba: A History in Art, Revised Edition

Offers one of the most comprehensive surveys of Cuban art available anywhere

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Afro-Cuban Religious Arts: Popular Expressions of Cultural Inheritance in Espiritismo and Santería

The portraiture, sculptures, and photographs in Afro-Cuban Religious Arts offer rare and remarkable glimpses into the rituals and iconography of Espiritismo and Santería.

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Black Art in Brazil: Expressions of Identity

In this book, Kimberly Cleveland analyzes how certain modern and contemporary Brazilian artists visually convey "blackness."