On art, artists, Latin America, and other utopias

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Camnitzer, Luis, 1937-
Other Authors: Weiss, Rachel, 1954-
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Austin : University of Texas Press, c2009.
Edition:1st ed.
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Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / by Rachel Weiss
  • pt. I. On and against translation. Introduction.
  • 1. Contemporary colonial art (1969)
  • 2. The sixties (1998)
  • 3. Exile (1983)
  • 4. Political pop (1998)
  • 5. Access to the mainstream (1987)
  • 6. Wonder bread and Spanglish art (1989)
  • 7. Cultural identities before and after the exit of Bureau-Communism (1991)
  • 8. Art and politics : the aesthetics of resistance (1994)
  • 9. The artist's role and image in Latin America (2004)
  • 10. Out of geography and into the Moiré pattern (1996)
  • 11. The reconstruction of Salami (2003)
  • 12. Printmaking : a colony of the arts (1999)
  • 13. My museums (1995)
  • 14. The forgotten individual (1996)
  • 15. Free-trade Diaspora (2003)
  • pt. II. Other histories. Introduction. 16. Pedro Figari (1991)
  • 17. Resoftenings and softenings in Uruguayan art (1991)
  • 18. An ode to aquatint (2003)
  • 19. Revisiting tautology (2006)
  • 20. The Museo Latinoamericano and MICLA (1992)
  • 21. Flying in weightlessness (2004)
  • 22. Brazil in New York (2001)
  • 23. The keeper of the lens (2005)
  • 24. The two versions of Santa Anna's leg and the ethics of public art (1995)
  • 25. The Biennial of Utopias (1999)
  • 26. Introduction to the symposium "Art as education/Education as art" (2007)
  • Index.