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Contemporary Art

Contesting Modernity Informalism in Venezuela, 1955-1975

Ramirez Mari Carmen, Gaztambide Maria, Manrique Josefina, Rangel Gabriela, Rivero Tahia

ISBN: HB: 9780300236897, Yale University Press, January 2019
256 pp., 29.2x24.1 cm, 305 colour and black&white illus.

This fascinating exploration of Venezuelan Informalism charts the movement's history from its beginnings in the mid-1950s to its last manifestations in the 1970s. Essays by an esteemed group of scholars discuss the variety, richness, and complexity o...

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Contingent Beauty Contemporary Art from Latin America

Ramirez Mari Carmen

ISBN: HB: 9780300214819, Yale University Press, December 2015
224 pp., 30.5x25.4 cm, 180 colour illus.

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 w...

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History of Art

Contemporary Art

Antonio Berni Juanito and Ramona

Ramirez Mari Carmen, Pacheco Marcelo E.

ISBN: HB: 9780300196481, Yale University Press, December 2013
464 pp., 30.5x24.8 cm, 270 colour illus.

Argentinian figurative artist Antonio Berni (1905-1981) is known for his aesthetic originality and for art steeped in social commentary. In the 1950s, he inaugurated a series of works that documented the lives of two fictional characters, Juanito Lag...

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Modern and Contemporary Masterworks from Malba

Ramirez Mari Carmen, Pacheco Marcelo E.

ISBN: HB: 9780300181005, Yale University Press, May 2012
156 pp., 27.9x25.4 cm, 70 colour illus.

In 2001, Eduardo Costantini, the founder of the Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA), began collecting artworks from across Latin America. Today, the renowned "Costantini Collection" consists of more than two hundred works, encompass...

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Versions and Inversions Perspectives (vs. Essays) on Avant-garde Art in Latin America

Olea Hector, Ramirez Mari Carmen, Marzio Peter C., Peluffo Linari Gabriel, Giunta Andrea, Camnitzer Luis, Lippard Lucy R., Salzstein Sonia, Smith Terry, Storr Robert

ISBN: PB: 9780300116526, Yale University Press, January 2007
272 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 50 colour illus., 50 black&white illus.

In the twentieth century, avant-garde artists from Mexico, Central and South America, and the Caribbean created extraordinary and highly innovative paintings, sculptures, assemblages, mixed-media works, and installations. This innovative book present...

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Sabiduras and Other Texts Writings by Gego

Huizi Maria Elena, Manrique Josefina, Ramirez Mari Carmen

ISBN: HB: 9780300111637, Yale University Press, September 2005
256 pp., 25x25 cm, 47 colour illus.

The German-born Venezuelan artist Gego (1912-1994) was renowned for her abstract drawings, prints, three-dimensional works, hanging net pieces and wire constructions. In 1999, a folder was found in a storage trunk that had belonged to Gego, with the...

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