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Die Dominikanische Republik : Ihre Farben und Zigarren
Alaux, Jean-Pierre
Parkstone International
, 2024
; German
; 98 Pages
Dieses Buch zelebriert die lebendige und dynamische Kunst und Kultur der Dominikanischen Republik.
Diese reiche kunstlerische Tradition zeichnet sich durch ihre lebhaften Farben, kuhnen Muster und wirbelnden Formen aus, die den lebendigen Geist und das vielfaltige kulturelle Erbe der Insel widerspiegeln.
Die dominikanische Kunst lasst sich haufig von der naturlichen Schonheit der karibischen Landschaft, der lokalen Folklore und der Verschmelzung von afrikanischen, europaischen und Taino-Einflussen inspirieren.
Alaux, Jean-Pierre
Parkstone International
, 2024
; German
; 98 Pages
Dieses Buch zelebriert die lebendige und dynamische Kunst und Kultur der Dominikanischen Republik.
Diese reiche kunstlerische Tradition zeichnet sich durch ihre lebhaften Farben, kuhnen Muster und wirbelnden Formen aus, die den lebendigen Geist und das vielfaltige kulturelle Erbe der Insel widerspiegeln.
Die dominikanische Kunst lasst sich haufig von der naturlichen Schonheit der karibischen Landschaft, der lokalen Folklore und der Verschmelzung von afrikanischen, europaischen und Taino-Einflussen inspirieren.
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Volutes et couleurs Dominicaines
Alaux, Jean-Pierre
Parkstone International
, 2024
; French
; 98 Pages
Ce livre celebre l'art et la culture vibrants et dynamiques de la Republique dominicaine.
Cette riche tradition artistique se caracterise par ses couleurs vives, ses motifs audacieux et ses formes tourbillonnantes, qui refletent l'esprit vif et l'heritage culturel diversifie de l'ile.
L'art dominicain s'inspire souvent de la beaute naturelle des paysages des Caraibes, du folklore local et de la fusion des influences africaines, europeennes et Tainos.
Alaux, Jean-Pierre
Parkstone International
, 2024
; French
; 98 Pages
Ce livre celebre l'art et la culture vibrants et dynamiques de la Republique dominicaine.
Cette riche tradition artistique se caracterise par ses couleurs vives, ses motifs audacieux et ses formes tourbillonnantes, qui refletent l'esprit vif et l'heritage culturel diversifie de l'ile.
L'art dominicain s'inspire souvent de la beaute naturelle des paysages des Caraibes, du folklore local et de la fusion des influences africaines, europeennes et Tainos.
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On tropical grounds : avant-garde and surrealism in the insular Atlantic
Hernandez Adrian, Francisco-J.
Polity
, 2024
; English
; 361 Pages
On Tropical Grounds develops a new approach to the avant-garde and Surrealism in Caribbean and Atlantic studies. The book examines how islands and their tropical associations figure in the cultural and political imaginaries of the Caribbean and the Atlantic, and identifies genealogies of local responses to continental fantasies of exotic insularity. Examining written and visual works that reflect on the Hispanic and Francophone Caribbean and the Canary Islands, as well as critical debates around discourses of insularity in island and metropolitan spaces, this book considers notions of ethnic purity, originality, imitation, appropriation, cosmopolitanism, and self-exoticism to challenge the idea that avant-garde practices were pre-eminently urban and metropolitan cultural forms.
The book argues that attention to the relational dimension implicit in exchanges around ideas of anticolonial struggle, radical social transformation, and anti-fascist resistance should inform analyses of cultural production in Caribbean and Atlantic insular spaces. On Tropical Grounds develops a persuasive critical model for the investigation of politically and aesthetically situated archipelagic relations that transgresses disciplinary boundaries and reconfigures our conception of the avant-garde as a global movement that was overdetermined by racial, gender, and colonial conflicts.
This book will be of value to anyone interested in Caribbean and Atlantic studies, avant-garde and visual culture studies, and literary and cultural studies.
Hernandez Adrian, Francisco-J.
Polity
, 2024
; English
; 361 Pages
On Tropical Grounds develops a new approach to the avant-garde and Surrealism in Caribbean and Atlantic studies. The book examines how islands and their tropical associations figure in the cultural and political imaginaries of the Caribbean and the Atlantic, and identifies genealogies of local responses to continental fantasies of exotic insularity. Examining written and visual works that reflect on the Hispanic and Francophone Caribbean and the Canary Islands, as well as critical debates around discourses of insularity in island and metropolitan spaces, this book considers notions of ethnic purity, originality, imitation, appropriation, cosmopolitanism, and self-exoticism to challenge the idea that avant-garde practices were pre-eminently urban and metropolitan cultural forms.
The book argues that attention to the relational dimension implicit in exchanges around ideas of anticolonial struggle, radical social transformation, and anti-fascist resistance should inform analyses of cultural production in Caribbean and Atlantic insular spaces. On Tropical Grounds develops a persuasive critical model for the investigation of politically and aesthetically situated archipelagic relations that transgresses disciplinary boundaries and reconfigures our conception of the avant-garde as a global movement that was overdetermined by racial, gender, and colonial conflicts.
This book will be of value to anyone interested in Caribbean and Atlantic studies, avant-garde and visual culture studies, and literary and cultural studies.
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The royal Inca tunic : a biography of an Andean masterpiece
Hamilton, Andrew James
Princeton University Press
, 2024
; English
; 342 Pages
The hidden life of the greatest surviving work of Inca art
The most celebrated Andean artwork in the world is a five-hundred-year-old Inca tunic made famous through theories about the meanings of its intricate designs, including attempts to read them as a long-lost writing system. But very little is really known about it. The Royal Inca Tunic reconstructs the history of this enigmatic object, presenting significant new findings about its manufacture and symbolism in Inca visual culture.
Andrew James Hamilton draws on meticulous physical examinations of the garment conducted over a decade, wide-ranging studies of colonial Peruvian manuscripts, and groundbreaking research into the tunic's provenance. He methodically builds a case for the textile having been woven by two women who belonged to the very highest echelon of Inca artists for the last emperor of the Inca Empire on the eve of the Spanish invasion in 1532. Hamilton reveals for the first time that this imperial vestment remains unfinished and has suffered massive dye fading that transforms its appearance today, and he proposes a bold new conception of what this radiant masterpiece originally looked like.
Featuring stunning photography of the tunic and Hamilton's own beautiful illustrations, The Royal Inca Tunic demonstrates why this object holds an important place in the canon of art history as a deft creation by Indigenous women artists, a reminder of the horrors of colonialism, and an emblem of contemporary Andean identity.
Hamilton, Andrew James
Princeton University Press
, 2024
; English
; 342 Pages
The hidden life of the greatest surviving work of Inca art
The most celebrated Andean artwork in the world is a five-hundred-year-old Inca tunic made famous through theories about the meanings of its intricate designs, including attempts to read them as a long-lost writing system. But very little is really known about it. The Royal Inca Tunic reconstructs the history of this enigmatic object, presenting significant new findings about its manufacture and symbolism in Inca visual culture.
Andrew James Hamilton draws on meticulous physical examinations of the garment conducted over a decade, wide-ranging studies of colonial Peruvian manuscripts, and groundbreaking research into the tunic's provenance. He methodically builds a case for the textile having been woven by two women who belonged to the very highest echelon of Inca artists for the last emperor of the Inca Empire on the eve of the Spanish invasion in 1532. Hamilton reveals for the first time that this imperial vestment remains unfinished and has suffered massive dye fading that transforms its appearance today, and he proposes a bold new conception of what this radiant masterpiece originally looked like.
Featuring stunning photography of the tunic and Hamilton's own beautiful illustrations, The Royal Inca Tunic demonstrates why this object holds an important place in the canon of art history as a deft creation by Indigenous women artists, a reminder of the horrors of colonialism, and an emblem of contemporary Andean identity.
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Souter, Gerry
Parkstone International
, 2023
; Romanian
; 256 Pages
În spatele portretelor Fridei Kahlo se afla povestea vie?ii ?i a operei sale. Tocmai aceasta combina?ie este cea care îl atrage pe cititor. Opera Fridei este o înregistrare a vie?ii sale ?i rareori putem afla atât de multe despre un artist din ceea ce înregistreaza în interiorul ramei. Frida Kahlo este cu adevarat cadoul Mexicului pentru istoria artei. Avea doar optsprezece ani când un teribil accident de autobuz i-a schimbat via?a pentru totdeauna, lasând-o handicapata ?i împovarata de dureri fizice constante. Dar caracterul ei exploziv, determinarea bruta ?i munca asidua au contribuit la formarea talentului ei artistic. ?i, de?i era un afemeiat obsesiv, marele pictor Diego Rivera i-a fost alaturi. L-a cucerit cu farmecul, talentul ?i inteligen?a ei, iar Kahlo a înva?at sa se sprijine pe succesul tovara?ului ei pentru a explora lumea, creându-?i astfel propria mo?tenire, în timp ce se vedea înconjurata de un grup de prieteni foarte apropia?i. Via?a ei personala a fost tumultoasa, deoarece ?i-a lasat frecvent rela?ia cu Diego deoparte, în timp ce î?i cultiva propriile rela?ii bisexuale. În ciuda acestui fapt, Frida ?i Diego au reu?it sa î?i salveze rela?ia lor distrusa. Povestea ?i picturile pe care Frida ni le-a lasat ne arata o relatare curajoasa a unei femei aflate în mod constant în cautarea descoperirii de sine.
Souter, Gerry
Parkstone International
, 2023
; Romanian
; 256 Pages
În spatele portretelor Fridei Kahlo se afla povestea vie?ii ?i a operei sale. Tocmai aceasta combina?ie este cea care îl atrage pe cititor. Opera Fridei este o înregistrare a vie?ii sale ?i rareori putem afla atât de multe despre un artist din ceea ce înregistreaza în interiorul ramei. Frida Kahlo este cu adevarat cadoul Mexicului pentru istoria artei. Avea doar optsprezece ani când un teribil accident de autobuz i-a schimbat via?a pentru totdeauna, lasând-o handicapata ?i împovarata de dureri fizice constante. Dar caracterul ei exploziv, determinarea bruta ?i munca asidua au contribuit la formarea talentului ei artistic. ?i, de?i era un afemeiat obsesiv, marele pictor Diego Rivera i-a fost alaturi. L-a cucerit cu farmecul, talentul ?i inteligen?a ei, iar Kahlo a înva?at sa se sprijine pe succesul tovara?ului ei pentru a explora lumea, creându-?i astfel propria mo?tenire, în timp ce se vedea înconjurata de un grup de prieteni foarte apropia?i. Via?a ei personala a fost tumultoasa, deoarece ?i-a lasat frecvent rela?ia cu Diego deoparte, în timp ce î?i cultiva propriile rela?ii bisexuale. În ciuda acestui fapt, Frida ?i Diego au reu?it sa î?i salveze rela?ia lor distrusa. Povestea ?i picturile pe care Frida ni le-a lasat ne arata o relatare curajoasa a unei femei aflate în mod constant în cautarea descoperirii de sine.
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Folk art : continuity, creativity, and the Brazilian quotidian
Glassie, Henry; Shukla, Pravina
Indiana University Press
, 2023
; English
; 612 Pages
Listen to the artists of the Brazilian Northeast. Their work, they say, comes of continuity and creativity. Continuity runs along lines of learning toward social coherence. Creativity brings challenges and deep personal satisfaction.
What they say and do in Brazil aligns with ethnographic evidence from New Mexico and North Carolina
from Ireland, Portugal, and Italy
from Nigeria, Turkey, India, and Bangladesh
from China and Japan.
This book is about that, about folk art as a sign of human unity.
Glassie, Henry; Shukla, Pravina
Indiana University Press
, 2023
; English
; 612 Pages
Listen to the artists of the Brazilian Northeast. Their work, they say, comes of continuity and creativity. Continuity runs along lines of learning toward social coherence. Creativity brings challenges and deep personal satisfaction.
What they say and do in Brazil aligns with ethnographic evidence from New Mexico and North Carolina
from Ireland, Portugal, and Italy
from Nigeria, Turkey, India, and Bangladesh
from China and Japan.
This book is about that, about folk art as a sign of human unity.
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Derek Walcott’s painters : a life with pictures
Fumagalli, Maria Cristina
Edinburgh University Press
, 2023
; English
; 506 Pages
First book devoted to Derek Walcott’s lifelong engagement with the Atlantic visual arts
- Bringing together local, Atlantic and global dimensions and putting in dialogue and contextualising Walcott’s work with the works of specific artists, it retraces Walcott’s unique, empowering, but utterly neglected ‘art history’
- Brings to the fore the importance and reverberations of interdisciplinary dialogues in the Atlantic world and in decolonising discourses and processes
- Sheds new light on the ways in which Walcott conjugated his engagement with the European, North/South American and African American traditions, envisaged their relationship with Caribbean culture and redefined the role he believed the
latter should and could play on an Atlantic and global scale
- Is mindful of Walcott’s attention to painting techniques but, most importantly, foregrounds his keen interest in the multiple "narratives" that the visual works he was confronting not only explicitly revealed but also implicitly suggested
- Highlights the attention Walcott paid to the circumstances and ‘locations’ of his encounters with the works in question (i.e. local settings, metropolitan museums and artbooks).
Walcott’s lifelong concern with painting and painters deeply inflected his aesthetics and politics. Walcott’s interventions on the relationship between Caribbean and colonial history have been thoroughly scrutinised, but, arguably, Walcott was also keen to address and (re)write an art history “of which,” paraphrasing a line from Omeros, the Caribbean “too” was/is “capable”. Contextualising and putting in conversation Walcott’s published and unpublished writings (poems, plays, essays, journalism) and his drawings or paintings (privately owned and publicly disseminated) with specific artists from the Caribbean, Europe, South and North America, Derek Walcott’s Painters recalibrates and sharpens our understanding of Walcott’s articulation of his own politics and poetics and of the Caribbean’s contributions to Atlantic and global culture.
Fumagalli, Maria Cristina
Edinburgh University Press
, 2023
; English
; 506 Pages
First book devoted to Derek Walcott’s lifelong engagement with the Atlantic visual arts
- Bringing together local, Atlantic and global dimensions and putting in dialogue and contextualising Walcott’s work with the works of specific artists, it retraces Walcott’s unique, empowering, but utterly neglected ‘art history’
- Brings to the fore the importance and reverberations of interdisciplinary dialogues in the Atlantic world and in decolonising discourses and processes
- Sheds new light on the ways in which Walcott conjugated his engagement with the European, North/South American and African American traditions, envisaged their relationship with Caribbean culture and redefined the role he believed the
latter should and could play on an Atlantic and global scale
- Is mindful of Walcott’s attention to painting techniques but, most importantly, foregrounds his keen interest in the multiple "narratives" that the visual works he was confronting not only explicitly revealed but also implicitly suggested
- Highlights the attention Walcott paid to the circumstances and ‘locations’ of his encounters with the works in question (i.e. local settings, metropolitan museums and artbooks).
Walcott’s lifelong concern with painting and painters deeply inflected his aesthetics and politics. Walcott’s interventions on the relationship between Caribbean and colonial history have been thoroughly scrutinised, but, arguably, Walcott was also keen to address and (re)write an art history “of which,” paraphrasing a line from Omeros, the Caribbean “too” was/is “capable”. Contextualising and putting in conversation Walcott’s published and unpublished writings (poems, plays, essays, journalism) and his drawings or paintings (privately owned and publicly disseminated) with specific artists from the Caribbean, Europe, South and North America, Derek Walcott’s Painters recalibrates and sharpens our understanding of Walcott’s articulation of his own politics and poetics and of the Caribbean’s contributions to Atlantic and global culture.
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The Mexican Museum
Chronicle Books LLC
, 2021
; English
; 170 Pages
Arte Popular features 100 pieces from Rex May's extensive collection of exquisite hand-crafted objects from all over Mexico.
Coming from the reputable Mexican Museum, this volume demonstrates the dramatic power of folk art.
This bilingual volume provides a veritable treasure trove of discoveries for the curious reader.
• Features bold and atmospheric photographs
• Includes scholarly essays that delve into the collection's origins and significance
• A visual treat for lovers of Mexican art, craft, and visual culture
The Rex May Collection–bequeathed to the Mexican Museum by the legendary 39-Mile-Drive sign designer–demonstrates the dramatic power of folk art.
This book is a companion to the opening of the Mexican Museum building in downtown San Francisco's Yerba Buena museum neighborhood.
• Perfect for museum goers and fans of Mexican arts and crafts
• The Mexican Museum has been a San Francisco cultural destination and educational resource for 37 years, and became the only San Francisco affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution in 2012.
• You'll love this book if you love books like Mexican Details by Joe P. Carr and Karen Witynski, Crafts of Mexico by Margarita de Orellana and Alberto Ruy Sanchez, and Masks of Mexico: Tigers, Devils, and the Dance of Life by Barbara Mauldin.
The Mexican Museum
Chronicle Books LLC
, 2021
; English
; 170 Pages
Arte Popular features 100 pieces from Rex May's extensive collection of exquisite hand-crafted objects from all over Mexico.
Coming from the reputable Mexican Museum, this volume demonstrates the dramatic power of folk art.
This bilingual volume provides a veritable treasure trove of discoveries for the curious reader.
• Features bold and atmospheric photographs
• Includes scholarly essays that delve into the collection's origins and significance
• A visual treat for lovers of Mexican art, craft, and visual culture
The Rex May Collection–bequeathed to the Mexican Museum by the legendary 39-Mile-Drive sign designer–demonstrates the dramatic power of folk art.
This book is a companion to the opening of the Mexican Museum building in downtown San Francisco's Yerba Buena museum neighborhood.
• Perfect for museum goers and fans of Mexican arts and crafts
• The Mexican Museum has been a San Francisco cultural destination and educational resource for 37 years, and became the only San Francisco affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution in 2012.
• You'll love this book if you love books like Mexican Details by Joe P. Carr and Karen Witynski, Crafts of Mexico by Margarita de Orellana and Alberto Ruy Sanchez, and Masks of Mexico: Tigers, Devils, and the Dance of Life by Barbara Mauldin.
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The invisible painting: My memoir of Leonora Carrington
Carrington, Gabriel Weisz
Manchester University Press
, 2021
; English
; 168 Pages
Since her death in 2011, the legendary Surrealist Leonora Carrington has been reconstructed and reinvented many times over. In this book, Gabriel Weisz Carrington draws on remembered conversations and events to demythologise his mother, revealing the woman and the artist behind the iconic persona.
He travels between Leonora's native England and adopted homeland of Mexico, making stops in New York and Paris and meeting some of the remarkable figures she associated with, from Max Ernst and André Breton to Remedios Varo and Alejandro Jodorowsky. At the same time, he strives to depict a complex and very real Surrealist creator, exploring Leonora not simply in relation to her romantic partners or social milieus but as the artist she always was.
A textured portrait emerges from conversations, memories, stories and Leonora's engagement with the books that she read.
Carrington, Gabriel Weisz
Manchester University Press
, 2021
; English
; 168 Pages
Since her death in 2011, the legendary Surrealist Leonora Carrington has been reconstructed and reinvented many times over. In this book, Gabriel Weisz Carrington draws on remembered conversations and events to demythologise his mother, revealing the woman and the artist behind the iconic persona.
He travels between Leonora's native England and adopted homeland of Mexico, making stops in New York and Paris and meeting some of the remarkable figures she associated with, from Max Ernst and André Breton to Remedios Varo and Alejandro Jodorowsky. At the same time, he strives to depict a complex and very real Surrealist creator, exploring Leonora not simply in relation to her romantic partners or social milieus but as the artist she always was.
A textured portrait emerges from conversations, memories, stories and Leonora's engagement with the books that she read.
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Art activism for an anticolonial future
Castellano, Carlos Garrido
SUNY Press
, 2021
; English
; 350 Pages
Analyzing the confluence between coloniality and activist art, Art Activism for an Anticolonial Future argues that there is much to gain from approaching contemporary politically committed art practices from the angle of anticolonial, postcolonial, and decolonial struggles. These struggles inspired a vast yet underexplored set of ideas about art and cultural practices and did so decades before the acceptance of radical artistic practices by mainstream art institutions. Carlos Garrido Castellano argues that art activism has been confined to a limited spatial and temporal framework—that of Western culture and the modernist avant-garde. Assumptions about the individual creator and the belated arrival of derivative avant-garde aesthetics to the periphery have generated a narrow view of “political art” at the expense of our capacity to perceive a truly global alternative praxis. Garrido Castellano then illuminates such a praxis, focusing attention on socially engaged art from the Global South, challenging the supposed universality of Western artistic norms, and demonstrating the role of art in promoting and configuring a collective critical consciousness in postcolonial public spheres. This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to Knowledge Unlatched—an initiative that provides libraries and institutions with a centralized platform to support OA collections and from leading publishing houses and OA initiatives. Learn more at the Knowledge Unlatched website at: https://www.knowledgeunlatched.org/, and access the book online at the SUNY Open Access Repository at http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12648/7166.
Castellano, Carlos Garrido
SUNY Press
, 2021
; English
; 350 Pages
Analyzing the confluence between coloniality and activist art, Art Activism for an Anticolonial Future argues that there is much to gain from approaching contemporary politically committed art practices from the angle of anticolonial, postcolonial, and decolonial struggles. These struggles inspired a vast yet underexplored set of ideas about art and cultural practices and did so decades before the acceptance of radical artistic practices by mainstream art institutions. Carlos Garrido Castellano argues that art activism has been confined to a limited spatial and temporal framework—that of Western culture and the modernist avant-garde. Assumptions about the individual creator and the belated arrival of derivative avant-garde aesthetics to the periphery have generated a narrow view of “political art” at the expense of our capacity to perceive a truly global alternative praxis. Garrido Castellano then illuminates such a praxis, focusing attention on socially engaged art from the Global South, challenging the supposed universality of Western artistic norms, and demonstrating the role of art in promoting and configuring a collective critical consciousness in postcolonial public spheres. This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to Knowledge Unlatched—an initiative that provides libraries and institutions with a centralized platform to support OA collections and from leading publishing houses and OA initiatives. Learn more at the Knowledge Unlatched website at: https://www.knowledgeunlatched.org/, and access the book online at the SUNY Open Access Repository at http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12648/7166.
