Americas Society announces the release of a catalog for the current exhibition Beginning with a Bang! From Confrontation to Intimacy. The publication includes essays by featured artists and a historical timeline covering the shift between the explosive and experimental moment in the Argentine art scene of the 1960s and the current scene emerging after extreme crises in Argentina during the last 40 years.
Visual Arts
Americas Society presents Beginning with a Bang! From Confrontation to Intimacy, an exhibition of Argentine contemporary art that maps the historical scenario of specific breakthroughs in contemporary art of 1960s Buenos Aires. The exhibition opened September 28 with a curatorial dialogue. In addition, AS hosted a panel discussion on contemporary Argentine literature at 6:30 p.m. reflecting on Argentina's complex identity through its culture, history, and landscape.
This innovative exhibition explores the descriptive tradition of "costumbrismo" as it developed in South America in the first half of the nineteenth century. The catalogue focuses on the cultural responses opened up by trade and commerce in the nineteenth century, and also traces the broad circulation of costume books, prints, and watercolors within South America, Asia, and Europe.
Burt Glinn's photographs—of Fidel thronged by his fellow Cubans along the road to Havana, of troops embracing, and of fierce men and women taking up arms in the streets—are full of the revolutionary fervor and idealistic anticipation that characterized that moment in Cuban history.
This catalogue is based on a historic study of the ceramic tradition in Puebla, Mexico with a summary of contemporary ceramic practices. It includes essays by Margaret Connors McOuade and Jaime Contreras Castro as well as an exhibition checklist.
These photographs testify to the remarkable talent and tenacity of the artist as well as to the cloistered religious communities of Québec, among the last in North America.
This catalogue includes the epic-scale illustrated manuscript, Nueva crónica y buen gobierno (New Chronicle and Good Government), written by Felipe Guamán Poma de Ayala circa 1615, which presents an account of the effects of the Conquest from a voice rarely heard—that of the conquered.