On art, artists, Latin America, and other utopias
By: Luis Camnitzer ; edited by Rachel Weiss.
Contributors: Weiss, Rachel, 1954-.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Austin
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780292719767
Subjects: Art, Modern -- 20th century; Art, Latin American -- 20th century
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / by Rachel Weiss; title: Pt. I. On and against translation. Introduction.; title: 1. Contemporary colonial art (1969); title: 2. The sixties (1998); title: 3. Exile (1983); title: 4. Political pop (1998); title: 5. Access to the mainstream (1987); title: 6. Wonder bread and Spanglish art (1989); title: 7. Cultural identities before and after the exit of Bureau-Communism (1991); title: 8. Art and politics : the aesthetics of resistance (1994); title: 9. The artist's role and image in Latin America (2004); title: 10. Out of geography and into the Moiré pattern (1996); title: 11. The reconstruction of Salami (2003); title: 12. Printmaking : a colony of the arts (1999); title: 13. My museums (1995); title: 14. The forgotten individual (1996); title: 15. Free-trade Diaspora (2003); title: Pt. II. Other histories. Introduction. 16. Pedro Figari (1991); title: 17. Resoftenings and softenings in Uruguayan art (1991); title: 18. An ode to aquatint (2003); title: 19. Revisiting tautology (2006); title: 20. The Museo Latinoamericano and MICLA (1992); title: 21. Flying in weightlessness (2004); title: 22. Brazil in New York (2001); title: 23. The keeper of the lens (2005); title: 24. The two versions of Santa Anna's leg and the ethics of public art (1995); title: 25. The Biennial of Utopias (1999); title: 26. Introduction to the symposium "Art as education/Education as art" (2007); title: Index.