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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
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
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.
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
Urban Space as Heritage in Late Colonial Cuba
Classicism and Dissonance on the Plaza de Armas of Havana, 1754-1828
By Paul Niell
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.
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
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.
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
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
Maya Ideologies of the Sacred
The Transfiguration of Space in Colonial Yucatan
By Amara Solari
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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