Latin American
and Caribbean
Artists of the Modern Era:
A Biographical Dictionary of More Than 12,700 Persons
by Steve Shipp
Published: 2003

This is a comprehensive reference book to more than 12,700 painters, sculptors, graphic artists, and architects in Latin America (Mexico, Central America, South America) and the Caribbean region active during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Entries include the artists’ years, countries, and bibliographies. Also included are brief biographical information, stylistic notes, a record of each artist’s exhibitions, and a list of collections where his or her works can be seen.

There are 89 photographs of selected works that supplement the entries. The introduction includes brief informative background essays on the individual countries and their artists.

Santa Barraza,
Artist of the
Borderlands
by Maria Herrera-Sobek
Published: 2001

Santa Barraza paints bold representations of Nepantla, the Land Between. Her work depicts the historical, emothional, and spiritual land between Mexico and Texas, between the real and the celestial, between present reality and the mythic world of the ancient Axtecs and Mayas. More than thirty of her most poerful and characteristic works are offered in full color and considered in theis groundbreaking study of a nationally important Tejana artists.

Where Art
Is Joy:
Haitian Art: The First Forty Years
by Selden Rodman
Published: 1988

Customer Review: An Excellent Resouce and Review of Haitian Art - Author Seldon Rodman revisits Haitian Art in a tomb that will grasp the reader's attention. Rodman has a passion for Haitian Art and this volume reaffirms his love of the island and their many talented artists. Rodman is not a newcomer to Haiti and the Art of Haiti. He has authored several titles on the subject and this current title updated with color illustrations will inform the reader of the mystique of Haiti.

Rodman tells us that the economically poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere is culturally rich in artistic pursuits. He shows us that Haitian Art is not just about market scenes. For those who desire to learn more about such a rich culture and beautiful art and those who have a love of naive art this title is a must. - Reviewer: A reader from Miami, FL , October 9, 1997

Art and
Archaeology
of Pre-Columbian Cuba
(Pitt Latin American Series)
by Ramon Dacal Moure, Manuel Rivero De La Calle
Translator: Daniel H. Sandweiss
Published: 1996

Art and Archaeology of Pre-Columbian Cuba presents a number of works, sixteen reproduced in color, by pre-Columbian artists from the archipelago, covering three millennia of human life in Cuba.

Living under difficult conditions, the first Cubans sculped their emothions, fears and hopes on stone, shell, wood and bones. Much of their art has not previously been available either within or outside of the Caribbean. Ramon Dacal Moure and manuel Rivero de la Calle describe and interpret the two kinds of prehistoric art found on the island: that of original settlers , the Ciboneys, and that of the Tainos, who had largely replaced the Ciboneys by the time of columbus.

More than one hundred photographs culled from Cuban museums and collectinos reveal the superb artistry of the Ciboney and Taino cultures. idols and amulets carded of stone, coral, and wood; shell masks,; stone axes; petroglyphs and pictographs are among the art works never before seen outside Cuba.

Mejia-
Guinand
by Ana Maria Escallon
Published: 2002

Book Description: Despite the current belief that painting has reached its end, the pictures that illustrate this book demonstrate its falseness. Within Colombian painting of the past decade, the work of Mejia-Guinand is unique in demonstrating a strict respect for the tradition of painting as an artistic medium. His large formats are radical: they have no beginning or end and transform our notion of space. They are fragments of a totality which nourishes itself on the legacy of the history of world art. He does not reject this history. On the contrary, he restores the past in order to go beyond it, doing it with the humility of someone who looks at the world for the first time but never stops being himself.

A novel figure within Latin American art, Mejia-Guinand covers an ample terrain of pictorial references and requires the spectator to undertake a penetrating contemplation of his work. As the noted Colombian art critic Ana Maria Escallon remarks in the essays that open this book, Mejia-Guinand's pictures are "images that are mute because they resort to the inner voice and in which color speaks for itself. They are intimate areas which reveal their significance in the luminosity of a green, the tactile vision of a blue or the silence of an emphatic black. The very moment when painting, with its capacity to give meaning, evokes all things.

Ana
Mercedes Hoyos:
A Retrospective
by Angel Kalemberg
Published: 2002

Book Description: This book represents the first comprehensive retrospective show of Ana Mercedes Hoyos' painting and sculpture ever published.

It deals witb a distinguished career which led the Colombian artist from her early stage of "windows" and "doors" to a series of "atmospheres" -- in which she seems to leap through the frames of her earlier paintings to find herself before the light that is on the other side and was merely hinted at before. The white canvases of her "atmospheres" -- luminous, sparkling and full of matter - in turn fulfill their cycle, opening the way for a further stage which is marked by the recuperatian of the object and a new and fresh approach to nature. This is the moment when her daring and unrestrained "sunflowers" appear, whose pigmentation follows the line of the great, visceral colorists, like Van Gogh and Gauguin, who define a realm where chromatic values rule with the same rights and duties as form. These give way to her recent work, which features colorful still lifes inspired by the Afro-Colombian women fruit-vendors from San Basilio de Palenque, who, with their bowls of fruit gracefully balanced on their heads, form a picturesque sight on the beaches of the fabled Caribbean port of Cartagena. In her current stage we also observe her passionate interest in the culture of this fascinating ethnic group, whose personages and customs absorb her interest and fill her canvases.

Visual Art
in Suriname:
The Twentieth Century
by C. Van Binnendijk, Paul Faber
Published: Revised edition 2000

Book Description: On 25 November 2000 the Republic of Suriname celebrated twenty-five years of independence. The flowering of the visual arts in Suriname over those twenty-five years produced an impressive body of work, created not only by established artists but also by a promising younger generation. "Visual art in Suriname" offers an overview of 129 works (paintings, sculpture, works on paper) that are representative of the quality and the diversity in the arts.

The book opens with an introductory essay on the history of the visual arts in Suriname in the twentieth century. This is presented chronologically, introducing the artists, art schools and organizations, and placing these in the context of national and international developments. The development of Surinam art reflects European and American art movements, as well as the many other traditions (Indian, Maroon, Creole, Javanese, Hindu, Chinese) which together make up the cultural mosaic of Suriname.

"Visual art in Suriname" is a updated reprint of "Twenty years of visual art in Suriname 1975-1995". This reprint contains 40 new works of art and essential additional information. no image

The Encyclopedia
of Latin American
& Caribbean Art
(Grove Library of World Art)
Editor: Jane Shoaf Turner )
Published: 2000

The only compact reference on this subject in English...

Artists from
Latin American
Cultures:
A Biographical Dictionary
by Kristin G. Congdon, Kara Kelley Hallmark
Published: Cd-Rom 2002

Synopsis: A biographical dictionary presenting 75 of the most important and influential Latin American artists of the 20th and 21st centuries. Latin Americans have long been in the cultural background, obscured by the influences of the dominant European culture. This biographical dictionary, which presents 75 artists from the United States and 13 nations of Central and South America and the Caribbean, and includes painters, sculptors, photographers, performance artists, is a valuable addition to the study... read more.

Soraida's
Verdadism:
The Intellectual Voice
of a Puerto Rican Woman on Canvas; Unique, Controversial Images and Style
by Soraida Martinez
Published: 1999

Book Description: A historically-significant perspective from Soraida, the creator of Verdadism. This beautifully-designed and illustrated one-of-a-kind art book features 46 bold and powerful paintings accompanied by thought-provoking commentaries, which have been written by the artist and are based on the artist's personal life experiences. The Verdadism art in this book seeks to promote a deeper understanding of the human soul and tolerance for all human beings. This Verdadism art and philsophy evolved from the artist's humanistic approach, which aims to create an awareness of racism, sexism and stereotyping, while documenting life in American society during the end of the twentieth century.

Frida Kahlo
by Luis Martin Lozano
Published: 2001

Book Description: Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) was a Mexican artist whose life was nearly as dramatic and fiery as her art. She endured a catastrophic set of physical calamities as a child and young woman, was an active member of the Communist Party, and survived a tempestuous marriage to the artist Diego Rivera. This book includes many photographs of her life alongside her extraordinary paintings, and presents commentary by leading Mexican art historians, stunning reproductions of her most seminal works-some never before reproduced, and nine gatefolds allowing the reader to examine in detail aspects of her larger works.