ReVisión

Name: ReVisión
Brand: Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd
SKU: 9783777434346
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By Victoria I. Lyall and Jorge F. Rivas Peréz

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ReVisión: A New Look at Art in the Americas offers an insightful examination of what defines the Americas through art. Featuring essays by leading Latin American art historians, it explores how historical influences shape contemporary communities across the region.

Artists like Alexander Apóstol, Juan Enrique Bedoya, Johanna Calle, Ronny Quevedo, Sandy Rodríguez, Eduardo Sarabia, Clarissa Tossin, and Cecilia Vicuña engage with centuries of imagery from both pre- and post-Conquest eras, addressing themes of identity, environmental exploitation, and displacement. The catalog essays provide a framework for understanding the area's complex history of creation, destruction, and renewal.
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This book is ideal for readers interested in Latin American art, cultural history, and contemporary artistic responses to identity and history in the Americas.

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ReVisión: A New Look at Art in the Americas considers what makes the Americas the Americas.

With essays by leading scholars of Latin American art history, the publication explores the ways in which the past continues to exert an influence on communities throughout the region.

Artists such as Alexander Apóstol, Juan Enrique Bedoya, Johanna Calle, Ronny Quevedo, Sandy Rodríguez, Eduardo Sarabia, Clarissa Tossin, and Cecilia Vicuña draw on centuries of imagery from both before and after the Conquest to grapple with questions of identity, exploitation of natural resources, and displacement.

The essays in this catalogue provide a framework for understanding the region's nuanced history of creation, destruction, and renewal.

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As noted in caa reviews, ReVisión: Art in the Americas challenges traditional narratives of the region's visual history by presenting an achronological, bilingual exhibition. Curators Victoria Lyall and Jorge Rivas Pérez focus on how contemporary artists critically incorporate pre-Hispanic and colonial histories in their work, offering a distinct and nuanced perspective.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9783777434346

Publisher: Hirmer Verlag

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 28 May 2020

Country: Germany

Imprint: Hirmer Verlag

Illustration: 80 color plates

Audience: General / adult

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Weight: 1140g

Pages: 144

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Arts & Culture Jorge F. Rivas Peréz Non-Fiction Victoria I. Lyall

About the Author

Victoria I. Lyall is the curator of Precolumbian art at the Denver Art Museum. Her most recent publication is Murals of the Americas: Papers from the 2017 Mayer Center Symposium at the Denver Art Museum. Jorge F. Rivas Pérez is an art historian architect and designer. He is also the curator of Spanish colonial art at the Denver Art Museum, and his most recent exhibition is Power and Piety: Spanish Colonial Art from the Cisneros Collection.