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Contingent Beauty: Contemporary Art from Latin America
Mari Carmen Ram Rez
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Description for Contingent Beauty: Contemporary Art from Latin America
Hardback. Editor(s): Ramirez, Mari Carmen. Num Pages: 224 pages, 180 color illus. BIC Classification: 1KL; ACXJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 305 x 254. .
Exploring cutting-edge techniques and daring themes, many Latin American artists seamlessly intertwine aesthetic refinement with biting critiques of social and political issues. Contingent Beauty assembles major works by more than 20 such artists who have made significant contributions to the global art scene over the past 30 years. Encompassing a variety of media-including painting, drawing, sculpture, and video-the majority of these innovative works are culled from the holdings of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, which possesses an exceptional collection of contemporary Latin American art. These objects, while formally sophisticated and alluring, are not ... Read more
Exploring cutting-edge techniques and daring themes, many Latin American artists seamlessly intertwine aesthetic refinement with biting critiques of social and political issues. Contingent Beauty assembles major works by more than 20 such artists who have made significant contributions to the global art scene over the past 30 years. Encompassing a variety of media-including painting, drawing, sculpture, and video-the majority of these innovative works are culled from the holdings of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, which possesses an exceptional collection of contemporary Latin American art. These objects, while formally sophisticated and alluring, are not ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780300214819
SKU
V9780300214819
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About Mari Carmen Ram Rez
Mari Carmen Ramirez is the Wortham Curator of Latin American Art and director of the International Center for the Arts of the Americas at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
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