Product Description: Chilean photographer Paz Errázuriz began taking photographs in the 1970s during the Pinochet dictatorship, and in subsequent decades traveled extensively to document the landscape and people of her native country. During the dictatorship Errázuriz frequently violated the regulations imposed by the military regime, daring to visit underground brothels, shelters, psychiatric wards and boxing clubs—all places where women were not welcome...read more

Product Description: 1000 Faces/0 Faces/One Face unites two great contemporary artists who have interrogated constructions of identity with an entirely unknown late-nineteenth-century photographer named Frank Montero. Its thesis runs as follows: in Cindy Sherman’s manipulations of generic casting we encounter a face that produces all faces; in Thomas Ruff’s proliferating but depersonalized portraits, we all encounter all faces reduced to a zero degree; and in Montero, we encounter a face that plays the role of itself, throughout the inscriptions wrought upon it by time...read more

Product Description: Held annually in Madrid since 1998, PHotoEspaña has become one of the most acclaimed and important photography festivals in the world, incorporating exhibitions, workshops, portfolio reviews and a number of other events. The 2011 edition focuses on the theme of “interfaces."

Product Description: Deriving its theme from the “Interface” theme of the 2011 PHotoEspaña festival, Face Contact looks at the myriad registers of the human face as interpreted by photography. It sets aside the conventional category of “portrait” to assess the idea of photographing the face as if it were an anthropological occasion or semiotic act, rather than merely an artistic genre...read more

Product Description: Borrowing its name from the ancient sewer in Rome, Belgian conceptualist Wim Delvoye's new and improved "Cloaca" is a room-sized shit-making machine whose bowels process two meals a day, serving up a mouthful of complex themes: scatalogy and disgust, high and low culture, man as machine and vice-versa, and the inversion of art semiotics...read more

A close-up look at the art scene in contemporary Cuba showcases some of the dramatic and diverse artworks produced by Cuban artists, featuring a broad spectrum of oil paintings, watercolor, lithography, pen and ink drawings, mosaics, photography, sculpture, needlework, and performance art.

Product Description: Born in 1948, Cildo Meireles is one of Brazil's most significant artists of the post-war period. A pioneer of installation art since the 1960s, Meireles is best known for his dramatic and politically charged walk-in environments, which often incorporate sound, smell and touch alongside visual experience, requiring the viewer's full perceptual involvement...read more

Product Description: Copublished with the Institute of International Visual Arts, London This anthology, edited by Cuban art historian and critic Gerardo Mosquera, offers a wide selection of writings by some of the most important cultural theoreticians of contemporary Latin America...read more