Uncovering the identity of an Indigenous icon. Finding Caspicara: Double Identities, Hidden Figures, and the Commerce of Sculpture in Colonial Quito, Susan Verdi Webster, 2024, University of Texas Press
Categories: Ecuador, South America
Tag: Art & architecture
Art against extraction
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The Latin American imagination is in the global forefront of ecological resistance. Momentum: Art and Ecology in Contemporary Latin America, edited by Inés Katzenstein, María del Carmen Carrión and Madeline Murphy Turner, 2024, Museum of Modern Art
Categories: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, North America, South America, United States, Uruguay, Venezuela
Graphic anti-imperialism
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In the struggle against the hegemon, comic art is deadly serious. Burning Down the House: Latin American Comics in the 21st Century, edited by Laura Cristina Fernández, Amadeo Gandolfo and Pablo Turnes, 2023, Routledge
Categories: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, North America, Peru, South America, United States, Uruguay, Venezuela
Anti-art with attitude
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Central American artists are defying their colonial invisibility. Visual Disobedience: Art and Decoloniality in Central America, Kency Cornejo, 2024, Duke University Press
Categories: Central America, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, North America, United States
Graphic realities
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Comic art reflects Latin America’s perennially contested landscape. Latin American Comics in the Twenty-First Century: Transgressing the Frame, James Scorer, 2024, University of Texas Press
Categories: Argentina, Colombia, Mexico, North America, Peru, South America, Uruguay
Taking Colombia’s pulse
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A new introduction to the country offers an honest assessment of its challenges. Colombia at a Crossroads: A Historical and Social Biography, Richard McColl, 2024, Fuller Vigil
Categories: Colombia, North America, South America, United States, Venezuela
Revolutionary relics
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Art is influenced by ideology but also what the state lets us see. Visible Ruins: The Politics of Perception and the Legacies of Mexico’s Revolution, Mónica Salas Landa, 2024, University of Texas Press
Categories: Mexico, North America
Two books about art
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Unity written in blood and ink
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Cecilia Vicuña’s ‘Saborami’ was an iconic artistic statement of resistance to the 1973 Chilean coup that has now been reproduced. Georgina Jiménez interviewed her
