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Art Systems

Brazil and the 1970s

University of Texas Press

Mapping the varied artistic practices in Brazil during the most repressive years of the nation’s military dictatorship, this illuminating study draws on information theory, art history, cultural studies, and the social sciences to trace how artistic pract

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Cuban Underground Hip Hop

Black Thoughts, Black Revolution, Black Modernity

University of Texas Press

Drawing on over a decade of interviews and research, this fascinating book examines a group of self-described antiracist, revolutionary Cuban youth who used hip hop to launch a social movement that spurred international debate and cleared the path for soc

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Portable Borders

Performance Art and Politics on the U.S. Frontera since 1984

University of Texas Press

In a first-of-its-kind exploration, Ila Sheren examines the contradictory effects of globalization on the U.S.-Mexico border, as witnessed and processed by contemporary artists.

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María Izquierdo and Frida Kahlo

Challenging Visions in Modern Mexican Art

University of Texas Press

Taking a comparative approach that facilitates new interpretations of their work, this study explores how the first Mexican women artists to achieve international recognition successfully challenged prevailing discourses about national identity and gender

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Urban Space as Heritage in Late Colonial Cuba

Classicism and Dissonance on the Plaza de Armas of Havana, 1754-1828

University of Texas Press

This pathfinding interpretation of Havana’s foundational site brings the first extensive and direct application of contemporary heritage studies to the analysis of colonial Latin American visual culture.

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Rainforest Cowboys

The Rise of Ranching and Cattle Culture in Western Amazonia

University of Texas Press

This ambitious interdisciplinary study is the first to examine the interlinked economic uses and cultural practices and beliefs surrounding cattle in Western Amazonia, where cattle raising is at the center of debates about economic development and environ

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Architectural Vessels of the Moche

Ceramic Diagrams of Sacred Space in Ancient Peru

University of Texas Press

Adding an important new chapter to pre-Columbian art history, this volume is the first to assemble and analyze a comprehensive body of ancient Andean architectural representations, as well as the first that explores their connections to full-scale pre-Hispanic ritual architecture.

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Maya Figurines

Intersections between State and Household

University of Texas Press

The first systematic analysis of ceramic figurines from multiple regions of the Southern Maya Lowlands, this book explores the construction of the Late Classic period Maya state by considering how figurines found in household refuse deposits mirror the re

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The Art of Professing in Bourbon Mexico

Crowned-Nun Portraits and Reform in the Convent

University of Texas Press

Offering a pioneering interpretation of the “crowned nun” portrait, this book explores how visual culture contributed to local identity formation at a time when the colonial Church instituted major reforms that radically changed the face of New Spain’s co

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Maya Ideologies of the Sacred

The Transfiguration of Space in Colonial Yucatan

University of Texas Press

Using the Maya city of Itzmal as a case study, this book explores how indigenous conceptions of space and landscape both aided and subverted the Franciscan evangelical effort in Colonial Yucatan.

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