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To create the "Confluence of Civilizations" mural commissioned for the 1968 World's Fair in San Antonio, Texas, Juan O'Gorman collected natural stones from all over Mexico-twelve colors in all-field……続きを見る

Arriving in New York City in the first decade of the twentieth century, six painters-Robert Henri, John Sloan, Everett Shinn, Glackens, George Luks, and George Bellows, subsequently known as the Ash……続きを見る

Named a Best Art Book of 2017 by the New York Times and Artforum In South of Pico Kellie Jones explores how the artists in Los Angeles's black communities during the 1960s and 1970s created a vibran……続きを見る

Migrating the Black Body explores how visual mediaーfrom painting to photography, from global independent cinema to Hollywood movies, from posters and broadsides to digital media, from public art to……続きを見る

John Singer Sargent’s renowned portrait The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit” is examined in an aesthetic, philosophical, and personal tour de force that has been called thoroughly absorbing” (New ……続きを見る

Art critic, historian and journalist Anita Brenner (1905-1974) is acknowledged to be one of the most important and perceptive writers on the art, culture, and political history of Mexico. Idols Behi……続きを見る

American graphic artist Charles Dana Gibson (1867–1944) found enduring fame as the creator of the Gibson Girl ー the beautiful, independent, and socially confident young woman who embodied the spiri……続きを見る

Fernando J. Rosenberg explores Latin American artistic production concerned with the possibility of justice after the establishment, rise, and ebb of the human rights narrative around the turn of th……続きを見る

Recipient of the NEA Literature Fellowship for Poetry and winner of the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, Harrington’s poetry is widely read in various journals including the Harvard Review. She is also a……続きを見る

Winner, National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies Book Award, 2019 The Royal Chicano Air Force produced major works of visual art, poetry, prose, music, and performance during the second ……続きを見る

#1 Amazon Best Seller! ─ Cubanisms ─ The evolution of Cuban slang, Spanish slang, and Spanglish The history of Spanish slang: Spanish is a unique language. From Argentina to Spain, accents, meanings……続きを見る

"[In] this anthology of well-chosen excerpts by a satisfyingly diverse group of writers....the truth of their lives shines from every beautifully, often courageously composed page."ー Booklist “Pack……続きを見る

A lavish, gorgeously designed full-color collection that showcases the designs of Dorothy and Otis Shepard, two groundbreaking giants of early twentieth-century American advertising. Dorothy and Oti……続きを見る

Learning American history is more effective if done via pictures. Children are attracted to the vibrant colors of meaningful pictures. It's easier to imagine previous events when there are pictures ……続きを見る

This nuanced account explores Maya mythology through the lens of art, text, and culture. It offers an important reexamination of the mid-16th-century Popol Vuh, long considered an authoritative text……続きを見る

During the mid-twentieth century, Latin American artists working in several different cities radically altered the nature of modern art. Reimagining the relationship of art to its public, these arti……続きを見る

A vivid, engaging account of the artists and artworks that sought to make sense of America's first total war, Grand Illusions takes readers on a compelling journey through the major historical event……続きを見る

An illustrated, in-depth examintion of the avant-garde and politically radical Latino art of San Francisco's Mission District In The Heart of the Mission, Cary Cordova combines urban, political, and……続きを見る

Queering Contemporary Asian American Art takes Asian American differences as its point of departure, and brings together artists and scholars to challenge normative assumptions, essentialisms, and m……続きを見る

How did the US South contribute to the development of film? And how did film shape the modern South? In Fade In, Crossroads, Robert Jackson tells the story of the relationships between southerners a……続きを見る

"Young's linkage between critical race theory, historical inquiry, and performance studies is a necessary intersection. Innovative, creative, and provocative." ---Davarian Baldwin, Paul E. Raether D……続きを見る

Arvey Foundation Book Award, Association for Latin American Art, 2018 Many Latin American artists and critics in the 1920s drew on the values of modernism to question the cultural authority of Europ……続きを見る

A 2008 cover of The New Yorker featured a much-discussed Black Power parody of Michelle and Barack Obama. The image put a spotlight on how easy it is to flatten the Black Power movement as we imagin……続きを見る

On the southern end of the Grand Rue, a major thoroughfare that runs through the center of Port-au-Prince, waits the Haitian capital's automobile repair district. This veritable junkyard of steel an……続きを見る

Mexican-American life, like that of nearly every contemporary community, has been extensively photographed. Yet there is surprisingly little scholarship on Chicano photography. Picturing the Barrio ……続きを見る

Salish Blankets presents a new perspective on Salish weaving through technical and anthropological lenses. Worn as ceremonial robes, the blankets are complex objects said to preexist in the supernat……続きを見る

"Éste es un libro más sobre montañas, aunque en él no se pretende un acercamiento bajo la óptica de la ciencia o la orografía que estudian su composición, altura y desniveles, como dicen los montañi……続きを見る

eBook Interactivo. Hasta hace poco tiempo el arte colonial era considerado como una prolongación del arte español peninsular. Pero no es así; se trata de un arte de carácter peculiar en el que las i……続きを見る

presente obra es producto del trabajo colaborativo e interdisciplinario de investigadores integrantes del grupo Pensamiento artístico y comunicación, adscrito a la Escuela de Artes y Ciencias de la ……続きを見る

Las escuelas de arte y oficios en Colombia reflexiona en torno a un tema que esperó por muchos años para ser documentado convenientemente. Un siglo es el itinerario temporal escogido por los investi……続きを見る