El arte en diálogo y tensión con las transformaciones sociales y culturales del mundo contemporáneo

'Losing the Human Form: A Seismic Image of the 1980s in Latin America' evokes an image of the 1980s in Latin America that establishes a counterpoint between the effects of violence on bodies and the radical experiments in freedom and transformation which impugned the repressive order. Stricken bodies / mutant bodies. Between horror and festivity, the materials gathered show not only the consequences of mass disappearances and massacres under dictatorial régimes, states of siege and internal wars, but also various collective urges to devise modes of existing in a permanent state of...

Durante los años sesenta y setenta el conceptualismo en Latinoamérica jugó un papel diferente al europeo y norteamericano, en lo que primaba la institucionalización y comercialización del objeto artístico. En la cultura latinoamericana, sin embargo, el conceptualismo es una estrategia y no un estilo. Sus raíces bucean hasta principios del siglo XIX en los trabajos de Simón Rodríguez -tutor de Simón Bolívar-, y continúan hasta llegar al punto en el que el arte se entrecruza con la política -como sucede con el grupo argentino "Tucumán arde"-, y donde la política se entrecruza con ...

Housed in the former 16th-century convent of Santo Domingo church, now the Regional Museum of Oaxaca, Mexico, is an important collection of textiles representing the area’s indigenous cultures. The collection includes a wealth of exquisitely made traditional weavings, many that are now considered rare. The Unbroken Thread: Conserving the Textile Traditions of Oaxaca details a joint project of the Getty Conservation Institute and the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) of Mexico to conserve the collection and to document current use of textile traditions in daily life and...

Holocaust movies have become an important segment of world cinema and the de-facto Holocaust education for many. One quarter of all American-produced Holocaust-related feature films have won or been nominated for at least one Oscar. In fact, from 1945 through 1991, half of all American Holocaust features were nominated. Yet most Holocaust movies have fallen through the cracks and few have been commercially successful. This book explores these trends--and many others--with a comprehensive guide to hundreds of films and made-for-television movies. From Anne Frank to Schindler's List to Jojo...