Visual Arts Catalogues

Americas Society is pleased to announce the December 9 presentation by Americas Society Visual Arts Director Gabriela Rangel of the Tiempos Violentos/Shattered Glass catalague at the Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil in Mexico City. This bilingual publication includes essays by guest curators Bertha Aguilar, Alejandra Olvera and Sandra Zetina. It is also fully illustrated and presents over 75 color images, including all the pieces exhibited as well as many others.

Art and Myth in Ancient Peru: The History of the Jequetepeque Valley is an exhibition that showcases Pre-Columbian art from the north coast of Peru, presenting 3,000 years of the region’s cultural history, illustrating the diverse artistic styles employed by the various societies that occupied the Valley.

This fully illustrated publication includes essays by exhibition curator Gabriela Rangel; and important critics on the field like John Hanhardt, Beatriz Jaguaribe and Heike Arzápalo. The book also includes interviews to the artists by Paulo Herkenhoff and Gabriela Rangel

This fully illustrated catalogue includes essays by exhibition curator Maria Iovino; photographic historian Sagrario Berti; testimony by Fernell Franco; and a personal note by Graciela Iturbide.

Melvin Charney has worked extensively on the frontier of art and architecture, making photographs, sculptures, installations, constructions, and gardens that take the city itself as a measure of our urban condition. A keen observer of the built world we inhabit, his work is informed by a comprehensive knowledge of architecture—its theory, history, and current practice—as well as his overall understanding of cities themselves.

Moon Tears: Mapuche Art and Cosmology from the Domeyko Cassel Collection examined an indigenous group barely known outside of South America. 

One of the finest exponents of Latin American Kinetic and Op art, the Venezuelan artist Carlos Cruz-Diez is a legend among contemporaries such as Jesus Soto and Alejandro Otero. In 2008, the Americas Society orchestrated Cruz-Diez's first solo exhibition in the United States, for which Carlos Cruz Diez: InFormed by Color is the exhibition catalogue—the first comprehensive publication in English devoted to the artist.