Thirteen ways of looking at Latino art / Ilan Stavans and Jorge J.E. Gracia.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stavans, Ilan, author.

Gracia, Jorge J. E., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art criticism.

Art, Latin American--20th century.

Art.

Art, Latin American.

Art, Latin American--21st century.

Local Subjects:

Art criticism.

Art, Latin American--20th century.

Art.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The essayist and cultural commentator Ilan Stavans and the analytic philosopher Jorge J. E. Gracia share long-standing interests in the intersection of art and ideas. Here they take thirteen pieces of Latino art, each reproduced in color, as occasions for thematic discussions. Whether the work at the center of a particular conversation is a triptych created by the brothers Einar and Jamex de la Torre, Andrés Serrano's controversial Piss Christ, a mural by the graffiti artist BEAR TCK, or Above All Things, a photograph by María Magdalena Campos-Pons, Stavans and Gracia's exch

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Thirteen; 1. The Labyrinth of History; 2. The Impostor's Mask; 3. On Desecration; 4. The Death Game; 5. A Girl's Innocence; 6. The Thereafter; 7. The Street as Art; 8. Desperate Escape; 9. The Horrors of War; 10. The Ambiguity of Madness; 11. I Laugh in Your Race!; 12. American America; 13. Twisted Tongue; Thirteen Plus One; The Artists; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Nov 2020)

Other Format:

Print version: Stavans, Ilan. Thirteen ways of looking at Latino art.

ISBN:

9780822376880

0822376881

OCLC:

867664427