Product Description: The University Museum of Contemporary Art (MUAC) opened this year at the National Autonomous University of Mexico City--an impressive cultural center without rival in Latin America. The university has two philharmonic orchestras, a radio station, a television channel, a film archive, a world-class concert hall, dance, theater and film venues...read more

Product Description: Born in the UK in 1965, Melanie Smith has lived and worked in Mexico City since 1989. An internationally showing artist, she is represented in Los Angeles by Patrick Painter Gallery. This volume presents Smith's reflections on the anonymous Mexican town of Parres, gesturing toward the, "symbolic space brought about by the self-reflexivity of painting...read more

Product Description: Rufino Arellanes Tamayo was a leading Modernist who brought Mexico international acclaim through his development of a new form of abstract figuration, that ultimately made him one of the most recognized and respected painters of the twentieth century...read more

Product Description: Thirty years after the founding of Mexico's Fototeca Nacional, this big, bold first catalogue of the archive's holdings offers a panoramic history of the art of photography in Mexico--a look into one of the most important image collections in Latin America and testimony to over 130 years of social, political, cultural, artistic, scientific and economic happenings...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: 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: "This book will become the most complete and useful English-language text on its subject, and will be the essential starting point for anyone wishing to incorporate Mexican material into a photographic survey course, to add photography to a course on Mexican culture, or to do more research in the field...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Contributors include Hugh M. Davies, John R. Lane, Bob Littman, Sylvia Navarrete, Pierre Schneider. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Tres personajes pretenden cambiar la historia justamente cuando ésta cambia la vida de millones de seres en el viejo y el nuevo mundos. Tlacatéotl Molpilli es un tenochca enviado a Europa por Cortés antes de la debacle azteca; el segundo personaje, Gregorio, es un ex soldado francés que, asqueado de la guerra, se hace franciscano y viaja a la Nueva España, donde acaba fundando una abadía; Julián de Wries, pintor flamenco y homosexual, huye de las guerras religiosas y en tierra mexicana se vincula con el mundo semiclandestino de los otros dos y con lo que podríamos llamar la resistencia azteca...read more