PODCAST 7: Round up, Self Help Graphics at Fifty and Archaeology of Memory, 8 June 2023
Tag: Art & architecture
Two books about art
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Monument mania
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Modernisation does not always mean progress ––– ||| Spectacular Modernity: Dictatorship, Space, and Visuality in Venezuela, 1948–1958, Lisa Blackmore, 2017, University of Pittsburgh Press
Categories: South America, Venezuela
Heroes behind the lens
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When it comes to climate change, seeing is believing ––– ||| Images from a Warming Planet, by Ashley Cooper (2016, Global Warming Images Publishing)
Categories: Argentina, Bolivia, Canada, North America, South America, United States
Cultural awakening on a global scale
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A seminal work now available in English offers us the chance to imagine forms of globalisation that go beyond the tired US vision
Categories: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Caribbean, Central America, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Europe, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, International, Mexico, Nicaragua, North America, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, South America, United States, Uruguay, Venezuela
The sound of damage
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A study of Cuban composer Emilio Grenet helps to illustrate the profound damage done by the continued US embargo
A revolutionary paradox
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A literary-critical analysis of the Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas provides valuable insights into the relationship between sexual politics, art and revolution
Super squares
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The heroic visions that shaped modernism outside Latin America have fashioned more complex legacies in the region itself
Categories: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Central America, Mexico, North America, Panama, South America, United States
Cyber pioneers
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Pioneers within Latin America’s expanding cyberculture are taking literature, film and art into exciting new territory
Categories: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Caribbean, Central America, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, North America, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, South America, Uruguay, Venezuela
Unlucky Lucky Tales
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Unlucky Lucky Tales, Daniel Grandbois, 2012, Texas Tech University Press
Categories: South America, Uruguay