Product Description: The austere, sculptural installations of Mexican artist Jose Dávila (born 1974) occupy a fruitful mid-ground between architecture and art. This beautifully produced overview features a clothbound cover with die-cut squares that reference the negative spaces in his work.

Product Description: Moderno examines how design transformed the Latin American domestic landscape in a period marked by major stylistic developments and dramatic social and political change. Brazil, Mexico and Venezuela entered an expansive period of economic growth in the late 1940s which was accompanied by the purposeful modernization of major cities and the conscious importation of the International Style...read more

Product Description: Exploring cutting-edge techniques and daring themes, many Latin American artists seamlessly intertwine aesthetic refinement with biting critiques of social and political issues. Contingent Beauty assembles major works by more than 20 such artists who have made significant contributions to the global art scene over the past 30 years...read more

Product Description: New Territories examines creative practices in today's globalized world, in which disciplines overlap more than ever before. Looking in particular at countries such as Brazil, Cuba, Panama, Columbia, Mexico, El Salvador, Puerto Rico, Venezuela and Chile, this volume discusses the ways in which craft, art and design have transcended their former identities...read more

Product Description: Acting as mediator and collaborator, Paula Trope recruited a number of children living in the shantytowns of Rio de Janeiro to make photographs using pinhole cameras she had constructed for them. Emancipatory Action presents the multi-panel photographs and videos that resulted...read more

Product Description: One of the finest exponents of Latin American Kinetic and Op art, the Venezuelan artist Carlos Cruz-Diez (born in 1923) is a legend among contemporaries such as Jesus Soto and Alejandro Otero--and across Latin America and Europe--but has been woefully little exhibited in North America...read more

Product Description: This volume is based on the exhibition of Paula Trope at the Americas Society (NYC) made in conjunction wth Harvard University's Cultural Agency Initiative. Contemporary Brazilian artist Paula Trope has acquired recent notice for the pin-hole photography she creates together with the "Meninos da Rua" (street children) in Rio de Janeiro, of which she is not really the "author" but its facilitator, instructor, and curator...read more

Includes a history of the Americas Society (formerly known as The Center for Inter-American Relations) with an emphasis on the visual arts program which comprises 4000 square feet of exhibition space and a series of programs open to the public at 680 Park Avenue in New York City.