Proyectando Las Américas

The present research study represents art historian Ramirez' reflections on the modernistic movement developed in Mexico in the early 20th century through detailed examination of diverse critical texts published in exhibition catalogues and other publications. The author analyses the protagonists, the institutions (particularly that of the National School of Fine Arts) and the visual expressions that represented the modernist alternative of Post Revolutionary Mexico. Some names mentioned include noted artists like: Jesús Contreras, Julio Ruela, German Gedovius, Gerardo Murillo (Dr. Atl),...

Dutch artist Marc Bijl shifts as effortlessly between anarchism, gothic culture, art and life as he does between the media of image, text and music. Echoes of Marcel Broodthaers and Joseph Beuys abound.

The palindromic title of Brazilian artist Carla Zaccagnini's no, it is opposition. hints at its conceptual structure, which she describes as forking paths and crossroads. The book documents an exhibition which the viewer enters twice, encountering the same work again, but differently. The exhibition catalogue reflects the palindromic nature of the exhibition, mirroring itself and the exhibition in both structure and form.

Este libro se centra en la creación fotográfica latinoamericana desde 1991 a 2002. Un periodo en el que el debate sobre las identidades culturales fue especialmente activo. La fotografía no se ha mantenido ajena a este proceso; de hecho, durante esa década se produjo la definitiva integración de la fotografía en el mundo del arte. La multiplicidad de los puntos de vista expuestos pretende ofrecer una visión panorámica que muestre el amplísimo espectro creativo de la fotografía latinoamericana.