Pop América, 1965–1975 accompanies the first traveling exhibition to stage Pop art as a hemispheric phenomenon. The richly illustrated catalogue reveals the skill with which Latin American and Latino/a artists adapted familiar languages of mass media, fashion, and advertising to create experimental art in a startling range of mediums. In a new era in hemispheric relations, artists enacted powerful debates over what “America” was and what Pop art could do, offering a radical new view onto the pos...
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 presents more than 250 works by some seventy of these artists (including Gego, Joaquin Torres-Garcia, Xul Solar, and Jose Clemente Orozco) and artists' groups, along with interpretive essays by leading authorities and newly translated manifestoes and other...
Home — So Different, So Appealing
by Chon A Noriega, Mari Carmen Ramirez, and Pilar Tompkins Rivas
Home — signaling a dwelling, residence or place of origin — embodies one of the most basic concepts for understanding an individual or group within a larger physical and social environment. Yet home has been a little noted, although prevalent, feature in art since the 1950s, a period in which artists challenged the traditional “object” of the visual arts through the use of material and media culture, new forms, and performative actions and processes. This volume explores works by diverse U.S. La...
Color Like a Master Discover the secrets behind some of today's coolest color styles! Building on the basics presented in their first book, Hi-Fi Color for Comics, industry veterans Brian and Kristy Miller help you move forward on your creative color journey. Master Digital Color teaches you how to emulate the looks of classic Saturday morning cartoons, vintage pin-up art and pulp-fiction covers, science-fiction flicks and other cool styles. You'll find everything you need to take your coloring...
The term Latinx art is used to describe works created by artists of Latin American birth or descent who live in the United States. It encompasses a diverse range of artistic practices, from geometric abstraction to figurative and conceptual approaches. The impact of Latinx populations on everything from urban design and body ornamentation to political posters and stencil graffiti has been greatly underestimated. Bringing together more than 30 works by artists who span several generations, this n...
How do you write a history of a group that has been written out of history? In The Accidental Archives of the Royal Chicano Air Force, world-famous archaeologist La Stef and the clandestine Con Sapos Archaeological Collective track down the “facts” about the elusive RCAF, the Rebel Chicano Art Front that, through an understandable mix-up with the Royal Canadian Air Force, became the Royal Chicano Air Force. La Stef and her fellow archaeologists document the plight and locura que cura of the RCA...
Consuelo Jimenez Underwood
Consuelo Jimenez Underwood’s artwork is marked by her compassionate and urgent engagement with a range of pressing contemporary issues, from immigration and environmental precarity to the resilience of Indigenous ancestral values and the necessity of decolonial aesthetics in art making. Drawing on the fiber arts movement of the 1960s and 1970s, Chicana feminist art, and Indigenous fiber- and loom-based traditions, Jimenez Underwood’s art encompasses needlework, weaving, painted and silkscreened...
Álvarez Muñoz’s photo/text works and installations reflect on the complexities of childhood on a bicultural and bilingual border This is the first major publication on the seminal Texas-based Latinx artist Celia Álvarez Muñoz (born 1937). Accompanying her first museum career retrospective, it surveys her decades of colorful photo and text-based artworks, book projects, large-scale installations, public works and associated unpublished archival materials. Color images and scholarly texts illumin...
The book 'Spray For Peace' features a survey of the greatest graffiti artists in Los Angeles: Cache, Aise Born, Black Light King, Galo, Teachr1, Yval One, UTI Crew, Plek, and Moezart. Their expression is unique, visionary and selfless. They are street artists creating art for their community and not monetary gain. The walls are their canvas to communicate with their contemporaries. Graffiti artists continuing the tradition by any means necessary. When we walk down the street and see graffiti,...
Some might say that making art is an impulse all humans have, yet artist-as-occupation is tremendously difficult - only a few are able to find their way as an artist due to social oppression, lack of confidence, or general exhaustion from navigating capitalist systems and markets."" - From the Introduction by Ginger Dunnill Few books have been published in the Southwest celebrating the intersectionality of contemporary artists. A term first coined in 1989, intersectionality studies overlapping...
