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Latin American/Caribbean Art

All titles (1998 to the present) in Recent Books in the Arts.


MoLAA: Museum of Latin American Art, The Permanent Collection. Long Beach, Ca.: Museum of Latin American Art, 178 pp.; some color ills.

Adès, Dawn, and Alison McClean. Revolution on Paper: Mexican Prints 1910–1960. London and Austin: British Museum Press and University of Texas Press, 2010. 176 pp.; 140 color ills. Paper $39.95 (9780292722484)

Aguirre, Robert D. Informal Empire: Mexico and Central America in Victorian Culture. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2004. 296 pp.; 29 b/w ills. Paper $19.95 (0816645000)

Alys, Francis, Cuauhtemoc Medina, Russell Ferguson, Jean Fisher, and Augusto Monterroso. Francis Alys. London: Phaidon, 2007. 160 pp.; 250 color ills.; 50 b/w ills. Paper $39.95 (9780714843216)

Artundo, Patricia M., Jorge Schwartz, and Daniel Nelson. Xul Solar: Visions and Revelations. Yale University Press, 2005. 268 pp.; 139 color ills.; 5 b/w ills. Paper $50.00 (0300117116)

Azuela de la Cuerva, Alicia. Arte y Poder: Renacimiento Artístico y Revolución Social México, 1910–1945. Zamora, Michoacán and México: El Colegio de Michoacán and Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2005. 377 pp.; few color ills.; few b/w ills. Paper $34.95 (9789681676940)

Bailey, Gauvin Alexander. Art of Colonial Latin America. New York: Phaidon, 2004. 448 pp.; 240 color ills.; 10 b/w ills. Paper $24.95 (0714841579)

Bailey, Gauvin. Art on the Jesuit Missions in Asia and Latin America 1542–1773. University of Toronto Press, 1998. 310 pp. Cloth (0802046886)

Bailey, Gauvin Alexander. The Andean Hybrid Baroque: Convergent Cultures in the Churches of Colonial Peru. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2010. 808 pp.; 172 color ills. Cloth $75.00 (9780268022228)

Barringer, Tim, Gillian Forrester, and Barbaro Martinez Ruiz, eds. Art and Emancipation in Jamaica: Isaac Mendes Belisario and His Worlds. Exh. cat. New Haven: Yale Center for British Art, 2007. 612 pp.; 499 color ills. Cloth $75.00 (9780300116618)

Bann, Stephen, David Morgan, Lynne Cooke, Martha Buskirk, and Susan Laningham. Francis Alys: Fabiola: An Investigation. Exh. cat. New York: Dia Art Foundation, 2008. 289 pp.; 300 color ills.; 44 b/w ills. Cloth $35.00 (9780300139167)

Barnitz, Jacqueline. Twentieth-Century Art of Latin America. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2000. 416 pp.; 105 color ills.; 204 b/w ills. Paper $34.95 (0292708580)

Baron, Lynne Pauls. F. Luis Mora: America's First Hispanic Master (1874–1940). Madison, Conn.: Falk Art Reference, 2008. 344 pp.; 175 color ills.; 175 b/w ills. Cloth $79.95 (9780932087620)

Barraza, Santa C. Santa Barraza: Artist of the Borderlands. Ed. Marìa Herrera-Sobek. College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 2000. 160 pp.; 35 color ills.; 24 b/w ills. Cloth $40.00 (089096906x)

Bartra, Eli. Women in Mexican Folk Art: Of Promises, Betrayals, Monsters, and Celebrities. Iberian and Latin American Studies. Cardiff, UK: University of Wales Press, 2011. 184 pp.; 11 color ills.; 86 b/w ills. Paper $35.00 (9780708323649)

Bauer, Arnold J. The Search for the Codex Cardona: On the Trail of a Sixteenth-Century Mexican Treasure. Durham: Duke University Press, 2010. 208 pp.; 8 color ills. Paper $21.95 (9780822345961)

Benavidez, Max. Gronk. Los Angeles: UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center, 2007. 132 pp.; many color ills.; few b/w ills. Paper $24.95 (9780895511010)

Bettelheim, Judith. AfroCuba: Works on Paper, 1986-2003. Exh. cat. San Francisco: San Francisco State University, 2004. 80 pp.; 30 color ills. Paper $24.95 (0295984767)

Birbragher-Rozencwaig, Francine, and Maria Carlota Perez. Embracing Modernity: Venezuelan Geometric Abstraction. Exh. cat. Miami: Frost Museum of Art, 2011. 80 pp.; 38 color ills. Paper (9780981933764)

Biron, Rebecca E., ed. City/Art: The Urban Scene in Latin America. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2009. 288 pp.; 39 b/w ills. Paper $23.95 (9780822344704)

Bleys, Rudi C. Images of Ambiente: Homotextuality and Latin American Art, 1820-Today. Continuum, 1999. 244 pp.; 20 color ills.; 81 b/w ills. Paper $29.21 (0826447236)

Bondil, Nathalie, ed. ¡Cuba! Art and History from 1868 to Today. Exh. cat. New York: Prestel, 2007. 424 pp.; 400 color ills.; 200 b/w ills. Cloth $85.00 (9783791340197)

Boone, Elizabeth Hill. Cycles of Time and Meaning in the Mexican Books of Fate. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2007. 338 pp.; 12 color ills.; 144 b/w ills. Cloth $55.00 (9780292712638)

Boone, Elizabeth Hill. Stories in Red and Black: Pictorial Histories of the Aztecs and Mixtecs. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1999. 296 pp.; many b/w ills. Cloth (0292708769)

Brienen, Rebecca P., and Margaret A. Jackson, eds. Invasion and Transformation: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Conquest of Mexico. Boulder, CO: University of Colorado, 2008. 256 pp. Cloth $55.00 (9780870818868)

Camnitzer, Luis. Conceptualism in Latin American Art: Didactics of Liberation. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2007. 364 pp.; 85 color ills.; 25 b/w ills. Paper $27.95 (9780292716292)

Caplow, Deborah. Leopoldo Méndez: Revolutionary Art and the Mexican Print. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2007. 327 pp.; 24 color ills.; 193 b/w ills. Cloth $55.00 (9780292712508)

Carpenter, Elizabeth, ed. Frida Kahlo. Exh. cat. Minneapolis: 2006. 320 pp.; many color ills.; many b/w ills. Cloth $49.95 (9780935640885)

Carrasco, David, ed. The Oxford Encyclopedia of MesoAmerican Cultures: The Civilizations of Mexico and Central America, Vol. 1. Oxford University Press, 2000. 451 pp.; some b/w ills. Cloth (0195142551)

Carrasco, David, ed. The Oxford Encyclopedia of MesoAmerican Cultures: The Civilizations of Mexico and Central America, Vol. 2. Oxford University Press, 2000. 458 pp.; some b/w ills. Cloth (019514256x)

Carrasco, David, ed. The Oxford Encyclopedia of MesoAmerican Cultures: The Civilizations of Mexico and Central America, Vol. 3. Oxford University Press, 2000. 476 pp.; some b/w ills. Cloth (0195142578)

Chihuly, Dale. Chihuly’s Pendletons and Their Influence on His Work. Portland Press, 1999. 254 pp.; 188 color ills.; 36 b/w ills. Cloth $65.00 (1576840158)

Clark, John E., and Mary Pye, eds. Olmec Art and Archaeology in Mesoamerica. National Gallery of Art, 2005. 344 pp.; 11 color ills.; 270 b/w ills. Paper (030011446X)

Cosentino, Donald J. Divine Revolution: The Art of Edouard Duval-Carrié. Exh. cat. UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, 2004. 68 pp.; 35 color ills. Paper $20.00 (0974872911)

Cowen, Tyler. Markets and Cultural Voices: Liberty vs. Power in the Loves of Mexican Amate Painters. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2004. 202 pp.; 25 b/w ills. Paper $26.95 (047206889X)

Dawson, Barry. Street Graphics Cuba. Thames and Hudson, 2000. 112 pp.; 210 color ills.; 214 b/w ills. Paper $19.95 (0500282692)

Falconi, José Luis, and Gabriela Rangel, eds. A Principality of Its Own: 40 Years of Visual Arts at the Americas Society. Cambridge, Mass. and New York: Harvard University David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies in association with Americas Society, 2007. 304 pp. Paper (1879128314)

Dean, Carolyn. A Culture of Stone: Inka Perspectives on Rock. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2010. 320 pp.; 15 color ills.; 53 b/w ills. Paper $23.95 (9780822348078)

Debroise, Olivier. Mexican Suite: A History of Photography in Mexico. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2000. 344 pp.; 143 b/w ills. Cloth $60.00 (0292716117)

Defibaugh, Denis, and Ward S. Albro. The Day of the Dead. Fort Worth, Tex.: TCU Press, 2007. 160 pp.; 65 color ills.; 28 b/w ills. Cloth $39.95 (9780875653495)

Dexter, Emma, and Tanya Barson, eds. Frida Kahlo. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2005. 232 pp.; 120 color ills. Cloth $55.00 (9781854375674)

Donahue-Wallace, Kelly. Art and Architecture of Viceregal Latin America 1521–1821. University of New Mexico Press, 2008. 304 pp.; 32 color ills.; 100 b/w ills. Paper $29.95 (9780826334596)

Edgerton, Samuel Y. Theaters of Conversion: Religious Architecture and Indian Artists in Colonial Mexico. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2000. 350 pp.; 83 color ills.; 91 b/w ills.; 20 ills. Cloth $60.00 (0826322565)

Eggener, Keith L. Luis Barragán’s Gardens of El Pedregal. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 256 pp.; 25 color ills.; 75 b/w ills. Cloth $40.00 (1568982674)

Evans, R. Tripp. Romancing the Maya: Mexican Antiquity in the American Imagination, 1820–1915. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2003. 224 pp.; 64 b/w ills. Cloth $45.00 (0292702477)

Fernandez, Horatio, ed. The Latin American Photobook. Exh. cat. New York and Mexico City: Aperture Foundation and Editorial RM, 2011. 256 pp.; 250 color ills. Cloth $75.00 (9781597111898)

Fernández-Kelly, Patricia, and Jon Shefner, eds. Out of the Shadows: Political Action and the Informal Economy in Latin America. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2005. 280 pp. Paper (0271027509)

Folgarait, Leonard. Seeing Mexico Photographed: The Work of Horne, Casasola, Modotti, and Álvarez Bravo. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008. 252 pp.; 40 b/w ills. Cloth $50.00 (9780300140927)

Fraser, Valerie. Building the New World: Studies in the Modern Architecture of Latin America 1930-1960. Verso, 1999. 280 pp.; 32 color ills. Paper (1859843077)

Gabara, Esther. Errant Modernism: The Ethos of Photography in Mexico and Brazil. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2008. 376 pp.; 7 color ills.; 67 b/w ills. Paper $26.95 (9780822343233)

Gallo, Rubén. Mexican Modernity: The Avant-Garde and the Technological Revolution. MIT Press, 2005. 268 pp.; 10 color ills.; 82 b/w ills. Cloth $29.95 (0262072645)

Gandert, Miguel, and Enrique R. Lamadrid. Nuevo México Profundo: Rituals of an Indo-Hispano Homeland. Santa Fe: Museum of New Mexico Press in association with National Hispanic Cultural Center of New Mexico, 1999. 180 pp.; many b/w ills. Paper (0890133492)

Gómez, Dulce, and Francisco Villanueva, eds. Arte Contemporáneo de Venezuela. Caracas: Francisco Villanueva Editores, 2006. 135 pp.; many color ills.; few b/w ills. Paper $50.00 (9801214511)

Gego. Sabiduras and Other Texts by Gego. Eds. Maria Elena Huizi and Josefina Manrique; intro. Mari Carmen Ramirez. Houston: International Center for the Arts of the Americas, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 2005. 256 pp.; 47 color ills. Cloth $50.00 (9780300111637)

George, Hardy S., ed. Mexican Masters: Rivera, Orozco, and Siquieros, Selections from the Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil. Exh. cat. Oklahoma City, Ok.: Oklahoma City Museum of Art, 2005. 122 pp.; 43 color ills.; 17 b/w ills. $35.00 (0911919031)

Giunta, Andrea. Avant-Garde, Internationalism, and Politics: Argentine Art in the Sixties. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2007. 432 pp.; 22 color ills.; 41 b/w ills. Paper $24.95 (9780822338932)

Gonzalez, Rita, Howard N. Fox, and Chon A. Noriega. Phantom Sightings: Art After the Chicano Movement. Exh. cat. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press and Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2008. 240 pp.; 200 color ills. Cloth $39.95 (9780520255630)

Greet, Michele. Beyond National Identity: Pictorial Indigenism as a Modernist Strategy in Andean Art, 1920–1960. Refiguring Modernism: Arts, Literatures, Sciences, vol. 13. Edited by Mark Cheetham, Linda Dalrymple Henderson, Janet Lyon, and Mark Morrisson. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2010. 312 pp.; 44 color ills.; 49 b/w ills. Paper $65.00 (9780271034706)

Gruzinski, Serge. Images at War: Mexico from Columbus to Blade Runner (1492-2019). Duke University Press, 2000. 285 pp.; 19 b/w ills. Paper $19.95 (0822326434)

Harrison, Peter. The Lords of Tikal: Rulers of an Ancient Maya City. Thames and Hudson, 1998. 12 color ills.; 127 b/w ills. Cloth $60.00 (0500050945)

Hecht, Ann. Textiles from Guatemala. University of Washington Press, 2000. 88 pp.; 100+ color ills. Paper $19.95 (0295981350)

Indych-López, Anna. Muralism without Walls: Rivera, Orozco, and Siqueiros in the United States, 1927–1940. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2010. 264 pp.; 104 ills. Cloth $45.00 (9780822943846)

Isbell, William. Mummies and Mortuary Monuments: A Postprocessual Prehistory of Central Andean Social Organization. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1996. (0292738706)

Ittmann, John, ed. Mexico and Modern Printmaking: A Revolution in the Graphic Arts, 1920–1950. Exh. cat. Philadelphia and San Antonio: Philadelphia Museum of Art in association with McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, 2005. 289 pp.; 91 color ills.; 25 b/w ills. $65.00 (0300120044)

Jiménez, Ariel, ed. Alfredo Boulton and His Contemporaries: Critical Dialogues in Venzuelan Art, 1912–1974. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2009. 376 pp.; 61 color ills.; 25 b/w ills. Paper $35.00 (9780870707100)

Jiménez, Ariel. Conversations with Jesús Soto. Caracas: Fundación Cisneros, 2005. 184 pp.; 34 color ills.; 5 b/w ills. Paper (0300115873)

Jimenez, Ariel. Carlos Cruz-Diez in Conversation with/en Conversación con Ariel Jiménez. New York: Fundación Cisneros, 2010. 248 pp.; 64 color ills.; 30 b/w ills. Cloth $25.00 (9780982354421)

Joseph, Gilbert M., Anne Rubenstein, and Eric Zolov, eds. Fragments of a Golden Age: the Politics of Culture in Mexico Since 1940. Duke University Press, 507 pp.; 55 b/w ills. Paper $21.95 (082232718x)

Kagan, Richard L., and Fernando Mariás. Urban Images of the Hispanic World, 1493–1793. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999. 240 pp.; 136 color ills.; 18 b/w ills. Cloth $50.00 (0300083149)

Katzew, Ilona. Casta Painting: Images of Race in Eighteenth-Century Mexico. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003. 256 pp.; 127 color ills.; 143 b/w ills. Cloth $60.00 (0300102410)

Katzew, Ilona, ed. Contested Visions in the Spanish Colonial World. Exh. cat. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2011. 320 pp.; 220 color ills. Cloth $70.00 (9780300176643)

Graciela Iturbide: Juchitán. Intro. Judith Keller. Exh. cat. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2008. 64 pp.; 50 b/w ills. Cloth $29.95 (9780892369058)

Walker Evans: Cuba. Intro. Judith Keller. Getty Trust Publications, 2000. 96 pp.; 00 color ills.; 73 b/w ills. Cloth $24.95 (0892366176)

Koontz, Rex. Lightning Gods and Feathered Serpents: The Public Sculpture of El Tajín. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2009. 151 pp.; 63 b/w ills. Cloth $60.00 (9780292718999)

Kowalski, Jeff Karl, and Cynthia Kristan-Graham, eds. Twin Tollans: Chichén Itzá, Tula, and the Epiclassic to Early Postclassic Mesoamerican World. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007. 640 pp.; 234 b/w ills. Cloth $65.00 (9780884023234)

Lara, Jaime. Christian Texts for Aztecs: Art and Liturgy in Colonial Mexico. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2010. 392 pp.; 287 color ills. Cloth $75.00 (9780268033798)

Lara, Jaime. City, Temple, Stage: Eschatological Architecture and Liturgical Theatrics in New Spain. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2005. 312 pp.; 239 color ills. Cloth $65.00 (0268033641)

Latorre, Guisela. Walls of Empowerment: Chicana/o Indigenist Murals of California. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2009. 326 pp.; 20 color ills.; 60 b/w ills. Paper $27.95 (9780292719064)

Lee, Anthony. Painting on the Left: Diego Rivera, Radical Politics, and San Francisco's Public Murals. University of California Press, 1998. 284 pp.; 14 color ills.; 67 b/w ills. Cloth $55.00

Leibsohn, Dana. Script and Glyph: Pre-Hispanic History, Colonial Bookmaking, and the Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca. Washington D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 2010. 250 pp.; 33 color ills.; 7 b/w ills. Paper $29.95 (9780884023425)

Lindauer, Margaret A. Devouring Frida: The Art History and Popular Celebrity of Frida Kahlo. University Press of New England, 1998. 232 pp.; 26 b/w ills. Paper $19.95 (081956348x)

Lister, Forence C., and Robert H. Lister. Maiolica Ole: Spanish and Mexican Decorative Traditions. Santa Fe: Museum of New Mexico Press, 2000. 176 pp.; 160 color ills. Paper $32.50

Looper, Matthew G. To Be Like Gods: Dance in Ancient Maya Civilization. Austin: 2009. 280 pp.; 16 color ills.; 202 b/w ills. Cloth $60.00 (9780292709881)

Lowe, Sarah M. The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2005. 296 pp.; 338 ills. Cloth $24.95 (9780810959545)

MacAulay, Suzanne P. Stitching Rites: Colcha Embroidery along the Northern Rio Grande. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1999. 220 pp.; 8 color ills.; 10 b/w ills. Cloth $35.00 (0816520291)

Maldonado, Oscar Iván, ed. So That All Shall Know: Photographs by Daniel Hernández-Salazar. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2007. 100 pp.; 82 color ills. Cloth $39.95 (9780292714670)

Martínez, María Angélica, and Joaquím Lorda. La Catedral de Durango. Guadalajara: Amaroma Ediciones, 1999. 144 pp.; many color ills.; some b/w ills. Cloth

Martínez, Juan A. María Brito. A Ver: Revisioning Art History, 4. Los Angeles: UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center, 2010. 122 pp.; 69 color ills. Paper $24.95 (9780895511096)

Masiello, Francine. The Art of Transition: Latin American Culture and Neoliberal Crisis. Duke University Press, 2000. 349 pp.; 8 b/w ills. Paper $21.95 (0822328186)

McEwan, Colin. Ancient American Art in Detail. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2009. 144 pp.; 150 color ills. Cloth $21.95 (9780674033153)

McEwan, Colin, Andrew Middleton, and Caroline Cartwright. Turquoise Mosaics from Mexico. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2007. 96 pp.; 162 color ills. Paper $23.95 (9780822339243)

McQuade, Margaret. Talavera Poblana: Four Centuries of a Mexican Ceramic Tradition. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico, 1999. 112 pp.; 36 color ills.; 10 b/w ills. Cloth $30.00 (1879128195)

Miliotes, Diane. José Guadalupe Posada and the Mexican Broadside. Exh. cat. Art Institute of Chicago, 2005. 40 pp.; 25 color ills.; 15 b/w ills. $9.95 (0300121377)

Moffitt, John F. Our Lady of Guadalupe: The Painting, the Legend, and the Reality. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland and Company, Inc., 2006. 271 pp.; few b/w ills. Paper and DVD $39.95 (0786426675)

Moffitt, John F. The Islamic Design Module in Latin America: Proportionality and the Techniques of Neo-Mudéjar Architecture. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland and Company, Inc., 2004. 215 pp.; few b/w ills. Paper $45.00 (0786418060)

Moreno, Antonio Garrido. El Arquitecto Rafael González Villar. A Coruña, Deputación Provincial, 1998. 425 pp. Cloth (8489652635)

Mosquera, Gerardo, and Adrienne Samos, eds. Cuidad Multiple City: Urban Art and Global Cities. KIT Publishers, 2003. 300 pp.; 350 color ills. Paper $45.00 (9068325426)

Mraz, John. Looking for Mexico: Modern Visual Culture and National Identity. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2009. 53 b/w ills. Paper $23.95 (9780822344438)

Neff, Terry Ann R. Fiery Pool: The Maya and the Mythic Sea. Exh. cat. New Haven: Peabody Essex Museum and Yale University Press, 2010. Many color ills. Cloth $65.00 (9780875772196)

Noble, Andrea. Photography and Memory in Mexico: Icons of Revolution. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 2011. 208 pp.; 40 b/w ills. Cloth $89.95 (9780719078422)