Product Description: This comprehensive, 470-page survey of artistic experimentation in late twentieth-century Mexico, first published in 2007, assesses fields as diverse as painting, photography, poster design, installation, performance, experimental theater, Super-8 film, video, music and poetry...read more

Product Description: Surveying Mexico’s contemporary art scene between roughly 2000 and 2010, this book shows how artists living in Mexico City have stepped beyond the museum and gallery circuits and developed their own contexts for the dissemination of their work by repurposing the city’s public spaces...read more

Product Description: This volume - investigating the work of a particular photographer, in this case, Graciela Iturbide - comprises a 4000-word essay by an expert in the field, 55 photographs presented chronologically, each with a commentary, and a biography of the featured photographer.

Product Description: Staged in the eighteenth-century convent church Sala Verónicas, the year-long exhibition project Dominó Canibal invited a succession of artists to create his or her work based on that of the preceding artist, either destroying, appropriating or reinterpreting it...read more

Product Description: Edited by Kitty Scott and including essays by Barbara Fischer, Teresa Gleadowe, Francesco Manacorda, Cuauhtemoc Medina, and Lourdes Morales; this book offers an overview of thinking on curatorial pedagogy, designed to elucidate, define and build on debates surrounding this subject...read more

Product Description: The postwar ascent of the curator as both cultural broker and creative participant in the work of art has seen the discipline acquire a brief but rich history of its own, peopled with names that already seem the stuff of legend (Johannes Cladders, Pontus Hulten, Harald Szeemann)...read more

Product Description: In this two-volume slipcased set, the Austrian artist Heidrun Holzeind reflects upon the revolutionary 1968 student movement in Mexico. The first volume collects photographs from the National Autonomous University and a text by Cuauhtemoc Medina...read more

Product Description: Alongside colleagues like Francisco Toledo and Cecilia Vicuña, Mexican artist Marta Palau has broken ground in late-twentieth and early-twenty-first century multicultural work. This overview of her oeuvre from 1960 to the present tracks everything from textiles to installations, and analyzes her investigations of hot-button social, political, racial and cultural issues including women's bodies and migration...read more

Product Description: In 1997 Belgian artist Francis Alys (b. 1959) created a performance work called The Loop for InSITE, a biennial group exhibition held in Tijuana, Mexico. Addressing the idea of international borders and the contemporary ease/unease of global travel, Alys' contribution was a journey that started in Tijuana and ended in the nearby border town of San Diego - never, however, crossing the Mexico-U...read more

Product Description: This survey of artistic experimentation in late twentieth-century Mexico assesses fields as diverse as painting, photography, poster design, installation, performance, experimental theater, Super-8 film, video, music, poetry and popular culture...read more

Product Description: As essayist Cuauhtémoc Medina puts it, "A desperate situation requires an absurd solution." On April 11, 2002, 500 volunteers (mostly students from the University of Lima) were supplied with shovels and asked to form a single line at the foot of a giant sand dune in Ventanilla, an area outside of Lima...read more

Product Description: Mexican artist Luciano Matus here reveals his most ambitious project yet, realized through interventions in historical buildings and public spaces in Antigua, Guatemala; Cartagena de Indias, Colombia; Lima and Cusco, Peru; and in the Jesuit missions of Paraguay...read more

Product Description: The man Octavio Paz called a "glacial spark" was a painter for whom intuition always had the last word. But Gunther Gerzso's work has in recent years lacked the in-depth attention it deserves, a situation meant to be righted by Risking the Abstract...read more