On art, artists, Latin America, and other utopias / Luis Camnitzer ; edited by Rachel Weiss.

Author/creator Camnitzer, Luis, 1937-
Other author Weiss, Rachel, 1954-
Format Electronic
Edition1st ed.
Publication InfoAustin : University of Texas Press,
Descriptionxv, 254 p. ; 24 cm.
Supplemental ContentFull text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subjects
Art, Modern--20th century.
Art, Latin American--20th century.

Contents Foreword / by Rachel Weiss -- Pt. I. On and against translation. Introduction. Contemporary colonial art (1969) -- The sixties (1998) -- Exile (1983) -- Political pop (1998) -- Access to the mainstream (1987) -- Wonder bread and Spanglish art (1989) -- Cultural identities before and after the exit of Bureau-Communism (1991) -- Art and politics : the aesthetics of resistance (1994) -- The artist's role and image in Latin America (2004) -- Out of geography and into the Moiré pattern (1996) -- The reconstruction of Salami (2003) -- Printmaking : a colony of the arts (1999) -- My museums (1995) -- The forgotten individual (1996) -- Free-trade diaspora (2003) -- Pt. II. Other histories. Introduction. Pedro Figari (1991) -- Resoftenings and softenings in Uruguayan art (1991) -- An ode to aquatint (2003) -- Revisiting tautology (2006) -- The Museo Latinoamericano and MICLA (1992) -- Flying in weightlessness (2004) -- Brazil in New York (2001) -- The keeper of the lens (2005) -- The two versions of Santa Anna's leg and the ethics of public art (1995) -- The Biennial of Utopias (1999) -- Introduction to the symposium "Art as education/Education as art" (2007) -- Index.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Access restrictionAvailable only to authorized users.
Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2009012188
ISBN9780292719767 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0292719760 (cloth : alk. paper)