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Wolf Tracks: Popular Art and Re-Africanization in Twentieth-Century Panama
Peter A. Szok
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hardcover. How red devil buses and self-taught artists have enlivened one Latin American nation Series: Caribbean Studies Series. Num Pages: 320 pages, , black & white illustrations, colour plates. BIC Classification: ACB; HBJK; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 612.
Popular art is a masculine and working-class genre, associated with Panama's black population. Its practitioners are self-taught, commercial painters, whose high-toned designs, vibrant portraits, and landscapes appear in cantinas, barbershops, and restaurants. The red devil buses are popular art's most visible manifestation. The old school buses are imported from the United States and provide public transportation in Colón and Panama City. Their owners hire the artists to attract customers with eye-catching depictions of singers and actors, brassy phrases, and vivid representations of both local and exotic panoramas. The red devils boast powerful stereo systems and dominate the urban environment with ... Read more
Popular art is a masculine and working-class genre, associated with Panama's black population. Its practitioners are self-taught, commercial painters, whose high-toned designs, vibrant portraits, and landscapes appear in cantinas, barbershops, and restaurants. The red devil buses are popular art's most visible manifestation. The old school buses are imported from the United States and provide public transportation in Colón and Panama City. Their owners hire the artists to attract customers with eye-catching depictions of singers and actors, brassy phrases, and vivid representations of both local and exotic panoramas. The red devils boast powerful stereo systems and dominate the urban environment with ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University Press of Mississippi United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Series
Caribbean Studies Series
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Jackson, United States
ISBN
9781617032431
SKU
V9781617032431
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About Peter A. Szok
Peter Szok is associate professor of history at Texas Christian University. He is the author of 'La Ultima Gaviota,' Liberalism and Nostalgia in Early Twentieth-Century Panama.
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