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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The first English-language biography of the singer known as the Cuban Sinatra
Stunning photographs from the oft-misunderstood and once-forbidden island
Offers one of the most comprehensive surveys of Cuban art available anywhere
The portraiture, sculptures, and photographs in Afro-Cuban Religious Arts offer rare and remarkable glimpses into the rituals and iconography of Espiritismo and Santería.
In this book, Kimberly Cleveland analyzes how certain modern and contemporary Brazilian artists visually convey "blackness."
An exploration of Maya civilization through the eyes of an architect.
152 b&w photographs and 30 color plates trace the development Latin American sculpture, architecture, pottery, painting and more, from pre-columbian times to the