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In Focus: Manuel Alvarez Bravo by
Manuel 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.
Remedios Varo: the Mexican Years 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.
Claudio Bravo Paintings and Drawings by
Arranged 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.
Luis Caballero: Large-Scale Drawings by
June 4-28, 1991, Nohra Haime Gallery in conjunction with the Grey Art Gallery & Study Center/NYU, June 4-July 12, 1991.
Manuel Espinosa by
Published 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.
Lola Álvarez Bravo by
An 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.
Julio Galán by
Exhibition catalog Annina Nosei Gallery, April 1992
Carmen Herrera by
Cuban-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.
Frida Kahlo 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.
Ana Mendieta by
This 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.
Wilfredo Lam and His Contemporaries, 1938-1952 by
Exhibition guide for Wifredo Lam at the Studio Museum, Harlem.
Roberto Matta, paintings and drawings, 1937-1959
Catalog of an exhibition held 5 Apr.-30 May 1997 at Latin American Masters, and 12 June-31 July 1997 at Galería López Quiroga.
Gordon Matta-Clark: You Are the Measure by
This 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.
Helio Oiticica: The Body of Color by
Hélio 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"
Cem Obras Primas de Portinari by
Catalog of an exhibition held at the Museu de Arte de São Paulo "Assis Chateaubriand," novembro-dezembro 1970.
Carlos Alfonzo: Triumph of the Spirit by
A 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
Images of the Spirit 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.
Martin Ramirez by
Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-193).
Diego Rivera: Murals for the Museum of Modern Art by 
José Antonio Fernández-Muro
José Luis Cuevas: an Exhibition of Recent Works by 
Gego: entre la transparencia y lo invisible = Gego : between transparency and the invisible by
Catalog of an exhibition held at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 26 June-25 Sept., 2005; Malba-Colección Costantini, Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aries, 15 March-15 May, 2006; Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango, Bogotá, 28 June-11 Sept., 2006; The Drawing Center, New York, 4 Nov., 2006-20 Jan., 2007.
Uriburu Coloration: 1968-1978 by 
Félix González-Torres by 
Marisol: Recent Sculpture by
Sidney Janis Gallery exhibition April 29 thru June 3, 1989
