The Davis Museum's groundbreaking curatorial project, Art__Latin__America: Against the Survey, reconsiders conventional frameworks for understanding, ...
The Davis Museum's groundbreaking curatorial project, Art__Latin__America: Against the Survey, reconsiders conventional frameworks for understanding,
exhibiting, and discussing Latin American and Latinx art. This illustrated volume, published with the exhibition, features 70 essays by leading scholars and ...
Since independence at the beginning of the nineteenth century, Latin America has maintained close links
with Britain. This book examines the cultural and social implications of the relationship through a series of case studies that focus on British, Irish, and ...
In its original Spanish language version, this tour de force was awarded the famed Espejo
de Espana prize. Rubert deVentos examines the ambiguous yet highly charged relationships between Spain and the American nations of the Western hemisphere. Writing with the ...
“Latin America” is a concept firmly entrenched in its philosophical, moral, and historical meanings. And
yet, Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo argues in this landmark book, it is an obsolescent racial-cultural idea that ought to have vanished long ago with the banishment of ...
Memorials are proliferating throughout the globe. States recognize the political value of memorials: memorials can
convey national unity, a sense of overcoming violent legacies, a commitment to political stability or the strengthening of democracy. Memorials represent fitful negotiations between states ...
Although primitivism has received renewed attention in recent years, studies linking it with Latin America
have been rare. This volume examines primitivism and its implications for contemporary debates on Latin American culture, literature, and arts, showing how Latin American subjects ...
An epicintellectual history of Latin America by one of the region’s most prominentthinkersInhis first book
to appear in English since Mexico: Biography in Power, awork which the Wall Street Journal calls “the standard history ofpostcolonial Mexico,” prize-winning author Enrique ...
While visitors to art and history museums may be there to simply enjoy the curated
objects, the question of what is included (and excluded) in these collections and who has the power over this process echoes the struggle for inclusion ...