This innovative exhibition explores the descriptive tradition of "costumbrismo" as it developed in South America in the first half of the nineteenth century. The catalogue focuses on the cultural responses opened up by trade and commerce in the nineteenth century, and also traces the broad circulation of costume books, prints, and watercolors within South America, Asia, and Europe. Essays by Natalia Majluf, Marcus Burke and Diana Fane.

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This collection of critical essays examines distinctive moments of the Americas Society's visual art program and its impact on the formation of a Latin American market in the United States. Founded in 1965, the Americas Society has played a pivotal role in Latin American art, from Pre-Colombian to modernism.

The book brings together a cross-cultural group of art historians and curators, including Alexander Alberro, Alexander Apóstal, Beverly Adams, Cecilia Brunson, Luis Camnitzer, Thomas Cummins, Andrea Giunta, Nicolás Guagnini, Paulo Herkenhoff, Anna Indych-Lopez, Luis Perez Oramas, John Pruitt, Mary Scheider Enriquez, and Sofía Sanabrais who discuss the relevance of the institution's intricate relationships with art, economics, and politics.

Essays address the emergence of site-specific practices such as Gego's Reticulárea and neo-avant-garde manifestations such as the Fashion Show Poetry Event conceived by E. Costa, J. Perrault, and H. Wiener; Marta Minujin's happenings; Michael Snow's photographs; David Siqueiros' monographic show; and the notion of landscape in the Western Hemisphere, among other significant topics. A Principality of Its Own explores the achievements, frictions, and experiments that modeled the institution from the Cold War to the present.

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Curated by Cecilia de Torres, this exhibition examined how Gurvich’s various influences, including his experiences in Israel, Uruguay, and New York allowed him to develop one of the most sophisticated and original constructivist perspectives within modern art. Gurvich settled in New York in 1971 and died there in 1974 as he was preparing for a major solo exhibition at the Jewish Museum. Like Lasar Segall, Gego, Frans Kracjberg, and Roberto Eizenberg, Gurvich was a Latin American artist from Europe. The catalogue includes essays by Gabriela Rangel, Cecilia de Torres and Mary Schneider Enríquez.

2005  96 pp. 41 color and 27 b/w illus ISBN 1-879128-30-6

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These works were drawn from the contemporary art section in Banco Mercantil’s art collection in Caracas. The concept of the exhibit drew on Jean Luc Godard’s use of the jump cut, a cinematographic term that refers to the editing of film shots causing a disjunctive and visible break in the film’s continuity, camera position, or time. he work of Venezuelan artists in this exhibit highlight dialogues with the past and present, reflecting a break from kinetic art and the idea of modernity as a concept in crisis. The catalogue includes essays by Gabriela Rangel, Tahía Rivero, Lorena González and Jesús Fuenmayor.

2005  160 pp.  ISBN 980-6669-04-1

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Considered the cradle of Mexican identity, Guadalajara is perhaps the country’s symbolic and artistic center that brings together the most powerful images of Mexican popular culture, from its colorful Mariachis to José Clemente Orozco’s public commissions. Nonetheless, unlike in Mexico City, contemporary artists from Guadalajara are not trained in art schools as they come from different disciplines such as architecture and media studies. As part of the multi-site event Mexico Now, So Far, So Close gathered recent works by those who do not share a style or common preoccupations, but rather a sense of geographical displacement.

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This exhibition consisted of three works by Allora & Calzadilla that utilize a variety of representational means to convey light "from" the island of Puerto Rico: the installation Traffic Patterns (2001-2003), a photograph from the series Seeing Otherwise (1999-2003), and the sculptural project Puerto Rican Light (2003). The catalogue includes essays by Sofia Hernández Chong Cuy, Yasmin Ramirez, Yates McKee, Dean Daderko, Olukemi Ilesanmi and a conversation with Jennifer Allora, Guillermo Calzadilla and Jane Farver.

2003  100 pp. 36 color illus. ISBN 1-879128-29-2

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Burt Glinn's photographs—of Fidel thronged by his fellow Cubans along the road to Havana, of troops embracing, and of fierce men and women taking up arms in the streets—are full of the revolutionary fervor and idealistic anticipation that characterized that moment in Cuban history. This bilingual catalogue is both in English and Spanish.

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Rather than simply presenting a set of pictures, the works drawn for Pictures of You by the four Mexican artists, Inaki Bonillas, Minerva Cuevas, Mario Garcia-Torres, and Yoshua Okon, can be seen as artistic propositions that underline the significance and potential of imagination. This small publication, designed by -1:0:1 (f. 2000, Monterrey, Mexico), also includes the lyrics from The Cure's song "Pictures of You."

2002 125 pp. b/w illus. on newspaper print. ISBN 1-879128-28-4

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This exhibition catalogue of paintings and sculptures includes publications and manifestos from throughout the period. Artists include Tomás Maldonado, Esteban Lisa, Joaquín Torres-García, Juan del Prete, Carmelo Arden Quin, Rhod Rothfuss, Martín Blaszko, Antonio Llorens, Mario Freire, Manuel Espinosa, Gyula Kosice, Juan MeIé, Lidi Prati, Alfredo Hlito, Raúl Lozza, Enio Lommi, Claudio Girola, Gregorio Vardánega, Rodolfo Ion Uricchio, José Pedro Costigliolo, and Victor Magariños. Essays by Mario Gradowczyk, Nelly Perazzo, Lisa Block de Behar and Edward J. Sullivan.

2001 159 pp. color and b/w illus.

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Iran do Espiritu Santo

This exhibition catalogue of the contemporary Brazilian artist with texts by John Paul Ricco and Jens Hoffmann is part of the Forma: Brazil series. 2001 8 pp. 4 color illus. Paper $1.00

Rivane Neuenschwander

The exhibition catalogue of this contemporary Brazilian artist is also part of the Forma: Brazil series. 2001 8 pp. 3 color and I b/w illus.

Price: $1. To purchase this catalogue, please contact: artgallery@as-coa.org