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Manuel Álvarez Bravo
In Focus: Manuel Alvarez Bravo by Manuel Alvarez BravoManuel Alvarez Bravo is generally recognized to be one of the masters of modern photography and the most significant artist in Mexico today. Born in Mexico City in 1902, Alvarez Bravo spent his youth in the city where visible markers of Mexico's pre-Columbian past, its colonial vestiges, and its modernity all coexist. His life and work have coincided with radical changes in the twentieth century, and he is the last of a generation of artists with direct ties to the avant-garde movements in Mexico during the 1920s and 1930s.
Call Number: TR647 .A48 2001
ISBN: 9780892366255
Publication Date: 2001-12-13
Remedios Varo
Remedios Varo: the Mexican Years by Remedios Varo (Artist); Masayo Nonaka (Text by)In 1941, Remedios Varo Uranga de Lizarraga arrived at Veracruz in the company of the French surrealist poet Benjamin Péret, as part of an unprecedented wave of refugees from the former Spanish Republic. The administration of President Lázaro Cárdenas granted Varo and Péret political asylum in recognition of their status as artists, guaranteeing them civil liberties and the right to a peaceful life.
Call Number: N6559.V37 N66 2012
ISBN: 9788415118220
Publication Date: 2012-10-31
Claudio Bravo
Claudio Bravo Paintings and Drawings by Paul Bowles; Claudio BravoArranged in more or less chronological order, this newly updated volume traces Claudio Bravo's four decades of painting and drawing, covering his use of color, which seems to become more extravagant with the passage of time, and the increasingly mysterious arrangement of objects in his photo-perfect still lifes.
Manuel Espinosa by Manuel EspinosaPublished in association with the Sicardi Gallery, Houston on the occasion of the exhibition "Emanuel Espinosa" held at Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, 5 Feb - 8 Mar. 2014.
Call Number: N6639.E87 A4 2014
ISBN: 9780957567498
Lola Álvarez Bravo
Lola Álvarez Bravo by Lola Álvarez Bravo; Elizabeth FerrerAn artist and a feminist, Lola’s work portrays the people and places of a Mexico that in her own words “no longer exists.” Lola’s photographs are exhibited in museums’ collections of New York, Washington, and Los Angeles among others.
Carmen Herrera by Monica EspinelCuban-born artist Carmen Herrera (b. 1915) has painted for more than seven decades, though it is only in recent years that acclaim for her work has catapulted the artist to international prominence. This handsome volume offers the first sustained examination of her early career from 1948 to 1978, which spans the art worlds of Havana, Paris, and New York.
Call Number: N6605.H48 A4 2016
ISBN: 9780300221862
Publication Date: 2016-10-28
Frida Kahlo
Frida Kahlo by Hayden Herrera (Text by); Victor Zamudio-Taylor (Text by)Frida Kahlo's paintings and person illustrate the inevitable intertwining of freedom and pain, embodying the heroic reclamation of self and the repudiation of social repression through the art-making process. She is a woman both of her time and ours.
Call Number: ND1329.K33 A4 2007
ISBN: 9780935640885
Publication Date: 2007-10-01
Ana Mendieta
Ana Mendieta by Olga Viso; Guy BrettThis book traces Ana Mendieta's (1948-85) development from the early performance-based works made as a student at the University of Iowa, where she was grounded in the conceptual and body-oriented practices of the 1960s and 1970s, to the creation of independent sculptures and objects in the early 1980s made with fragile, earthen materials. Rooted in nature and in the body, Mendieta's art was inflected by personal identity and femininity, and distinguished by its insistent hybridity.
Gordon Matta-Clark: You Are the Measure by Gordon Matta-Clark; Elisabeth SussmanThis comprehensive book incorporates important new information from the Matta-Clark archive, presenting a compelling reappraisal of the unique beauty and radical nature of Matta-Clark's punnings, plans, performances, and interventions evident in the many media in which he worked.
Call Number: N6537.M3947 A4 2007
ISBN: 0874271568
Publication Date: 2007-02-01
Hélio Oiticica
Helio Oiticica: The Body of Color by Mari Carmen RamirezHélio Oiticica was a Brazilian visual artist, sculptor, painter, performance artist, and theorist, best known for his participation in the Neo-Concrete Movement, for his innovative use of color, and for what he later termed "environmental art"
Carlos Alfonzo: Triumph of the Spirit by Carlos AlfonzoA catalogue of an exhibition assessing this Latino artist's career and reevaluating his place in late 20th-century American painting, particularly within the context of Neo-Expressive modes of painting
Call Number: ND237.A36 A4 1997
ISBN: 9780295976815
Publication Date: 1998-04-01
Graciela Iturbide
Images of the Spirit by Graciela Iturbide; Alfredo Lopez Austin (Epilogue by); Roberto Tejada (Preface by)Graciela Iturbide makes subtle yet powerful photographs that blend evocative scenes, primarily the cultures of her native Mexico, with her own deeply personal vision. Images of the Spirit, the first major publication of Iturbide's photography, demonstrates how in her dreamlike encounters with what may first appear to be the ordinary, she perceives the surreal and the marvelous.
Call Number: TR654 .I867 1996
ISBN: 9780893816810
Publication Date: 1996-11-29
Martín Ramírez
Martin Ramirez by Lynne Cooke (Editor)Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-193).