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Taino, Pre-Columbian Art and Culture from the Caribbean
Taino, Pre-Columbian Art and Culture from the Caribbean

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Taino:
Pre-Columbian Art
and Culture from the Caribbean

Editors: Fatima Bercht, Estrellita Brodsky, John Alan Farmer, Dicey Taylor, Museo Del Barrio, Ricardo Alegria, Contributor: Jose Arrom
Published: 1998

 

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Caribbean Art
(The World of Art)

Author: Veerle Poupeye
Published: 1998

Amazon.com: In this much-needed in-depth study of the Caribbean's rich art history, Belgium-born, Jamaica-based art historian and teacher Veerle Poupeye presents a thoroughly researched, effective and compact view of interwoven indigenous, African, European and Asian influences that fuel the region's vibrant artistic output. Cultures influenced variously by the Spanish (Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic), English-speaking societies (Jamaica, the Bahamas, Barbados), African and French cultures (Haiti, Guadeloupe, Martinique),and the the Dutch (Aruba, Bonaire, and Curacao) are all precisely highlighted.

In addition to the political and cultural themes of slavery, colonialism, revolution, independence, imperialism, and racial identity, Poupeye's analysis uncovers the strong religious influences of Haitian voodoo, Jamaican Rastafarianism, and Afro-Cuban Santeria, which are found in vibrant paintings like Hector Hyppolite's "The Great Master," Edward Brown's "Ethiopian Apple," and Wilfredo Lam's Picasso-inspired masterpiece "The Jungle."

Armed with a detailed glossary of terms and accurate biographical sketches, Poupeye shows the Caribbean as a place where "creolization is an ongoing process and hybridity, plurality, and open-endedness are fundamental characteristics." --Eugene Holley, Jr.

Customer Review: Caribbean Art...so beautiful!, A very good work. It is admirable to note that more artists from the diverse and beautiful Caribbean and their artform are becoming more and more recognised throughout the world. [This book is] well detailed, an excellent insight into the appreciation, promotion and understanding of the Art of the Caribbean. - Reviewer: Albert Sydney from Trinidad & Tobago March 20, 2002

 

 
     
     

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Latin American Art
Author: Edward Sullivan
Published: 1996

Ingram: The first to present a genuinely Latin American viewpoint, this book is also the first comprehensive survey of an important and increasingly popular field, and because each of the contributors is an expert on his or her own national art. These 17 scholars, critics, and curators provide an exciting and challenging new assessment of 20th-century Latin American art. 310 illustrations, 300 in color.

 

     
     

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Art Cuba:
The New Generation

Author: Holly Block
Published: 2001

Book Description: The art scene in Cuba is thriving as never before. Young, politically active artists are stretching the limits of creative freedom and, as tourism to Cuba continues to increase, making their mark in the international art world. Coming at a time when Americans’ interest in the country and its art is at a peak, this is the first major survey to show the wide range of art coming out of Cuba today.

Overflowing with illustrations—including 100 colorplates—Art Cuba presents exciting new works, most produced in the past five years, by more than 60 artists. The mediums extend from oil on canvas, pen and ink, watercolor, lithography, and mosaic to photography, sculpture, embroidery, and performance art. The essays examine the changes in Cuban art in the decades since the Revolution and the new directions it is taking today. This comprehensive look at Cuban art today is an important addition to the literature on contemporary art.

 
     
     

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The Art of Mesoamerica:
From Olmec to Aztec

Author: Mary Ellen Miller
Published: 3rd edition, 2001

Book Description: This essential guide to the art and architecture of ancient Mesoamerica succinctly and evocatively summarizes the artistic achievements of the high pre-Columbian civilizations—Olmec, Maya, Teotihuacan, Tolec, Aztec—as well as those of their less well-known contemporaries. The pyramids and palaces, jades and brightly colored paintings emerge from these pages as vividly as when they first astonished Cortés's men in 1519.

There was a surprising unity in Mesoamerican culture from Mexico to Honduras and from 1500 BC to the Spanish Conquest. Among many features shared were a 260-day ritual calendar and a preoccupation with gods representing natural forces. Current research also emphasizes the great importance of rites of kingship, including warfare and blood sacrifice.

In this third edition, Mary Miller opens up new windows on the ancient past with fresh readings of works of art, all the while offering careful archaeological interpretations. Recent hieroglyphic decipherments provide insights into ancient art, spelling out long-distance connections between the Maya and their neighbors. Updated throughout, with special attention to evidence for dating, the new Art of Mesoamerica is the ideal companion for students and travelers. 193 illustrations, 44 in color.

 

     
     

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Crafting Gender:
Women and Folk Art in
Latin America and the Caribbean

Editor: Eli Bartra
Published: 2003

Book Description: This volume initiates a gender-based framework for analyzing the folk art of Latin America and the Caribbean. Defined here broadly as the "art of the people" and as having a primarily decorative, rather than utilitarian, purpose, folk art is not solely the province of women, but folk art by women in Latin America has received little sustained attention.

From a feminist perspective, the contributors examine not only twentieth-century and contemporary art by women, but also its production, distribution, and consumption. Exploring the roles of women as artists and consumers in specific cultural contexts, they look at a range of artistic forms across Latin America, including Panamanian molas (blouses), Andean weavings, Mexican ceramics, and Mayan hipiles (dresses).

Art historians, anthropologists, and sociologists from Latin America, the Caribbean, and the United States discuss artwork from Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Suriname, and Puerto Rico, and many of their essays focus on indigenous artists. They highlight the complex webs of social relations from which folk art emerges.

Crafting Gender sheds much-needed light on a rich body of art and the women who create it by integrating the social, historical, political, geographical, and economic factors that shape folk art in Latin America and the Caribbean.

 

 
     
 

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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.

 
     
     
 

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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.

 
 
     
     
 

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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

 
     
     
 

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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.

 
 
     
     
 

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Mejia-
Guinand

by Ana Maria Escallon
Published: 200
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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.

 
     
     
 

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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.

 
 
     
     
 

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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

 
     
     
 

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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...

 
 
     
     
 

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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.

 
     
     
 

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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.

 
 
     
     
 

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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.

 

 
     
     
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