{"title":"Studies On Latin American Art And Latinx Art","description":"\u003cp\u003eDelve into the vibrant world of Latin American and Latinx art with this illuminating collection. Explore diverse perspectives, groundbreaking artists, and the rich cultural heritage shaping contemporary artistic expression.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"immanent-vitalities-book-kaira-cabaas-9780520356221","title":"Immanent Vitalities","description":"A new reality for the art object has emerged in the world of contemporary art: it is now experienced less as an autonomous, inanimate form and more as an active material agent. In this book, Kaira M. Cabañas describes how such a shift in conceptions of art’s materiality came to occur, exploring key artistic practices in Venezuela, Brazil, and Western Europe from the mid-twentieth century to the present. Immanent Vitalities expands the discourse of new materialisms by charting how artists, ranging from Gego to Laura Lima, distance themselves from dualisms such as mind-matter, culture-nature, human-nonhuman, and even Western–non-Western in order to impact our understanding of what is animate. Tracing migrations of people, objects, and ideas between South America and Europe, Cabañas historicizes changing perceptions about art’s agency while prompting readers to remain attentive to the ethical dimensions of materiality and of social difference and lived experience.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49738531242257,"sku":"NGR9780520356221","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0520356225.jpg?v=1751040174"},{"product_id":"forming-abstraction-book-adele-nelson-9780520379848","title":"Forming Abstraction","description":"Art produced outside hegemonic centers is often seen as a form of derivation or relegated to a provisional status. Forming Abstraction turns this narrative on its head. In the first book-length study of postwar Brazilian art and culture, Adele Nelson highlights the importance of exhibitionary and pedagogical institutions in the development of abstract art in Brazil. By focusing on the formation of the São Paulo Biennial in 1951; the early activities of artists Geraldo de Barros, Lygia Clark, Waldemar Cordeiro, Hélio Oiticica, Lygia Pape, and Ivan Serpa; and the ideas of critics like Mário Pedrosa, Nelson illuminates the complex, strategic processes of citation and adaption of both local and international forms. The book ultimately demonstrates that Brazilian art institutions and abstract artistic groups—and their exhibitions of abstract art in particular—served as crucial loci for the articulation of societal identities in a newly democratic nation at the onset of the Cold War.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49739318034705,"sku":"NGR9780520379848","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50355081675025,"sku":"CIN0520379845G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0520379845.jpg?v=1751358654"},{"product_id":"refined-material-book-sean-nesselrode-moncada-9780520392465","title":"Refined Material","description":"Venezuela’s turbulent twentieth century saw boom and bust as the former Spanish colony transformed into a major postwar cultural player. In this sweeping study of visual and material production, Sean Nesselrode Moncada explores the integral relationship between the global oil industry and the celebrated rise of geometric abstraction, kinetic art, and modern architecture in midcentury Venezuela. Oil provided the crucible for national reinvention, ushering in a period of dizzying optimism and bitter disillusion as artists, architects, graphic designers, activists, and critics sought to define the terms of modernity. An innovative, transdisciplinary reevaluation of Venezuelan modernism, Refined Material reveals how the logic of refinement conditioned the terms of development and redefined our relationship to nature, matter, and one another.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49747882213649,"sku":"NGR9780520392465","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0520392469.jpg?v=1751427050"},{"product_id":"political-body-book-andrea-giunta-9780520344327","title":"The Political Body","description":"How a constellation of Latin American artists explored the body, power, and emancipation—and expanded the meanings of feminist art.     In The Political Body, art historian Andrea Giunta explores gender and power in the work of Latin American artists from the 1960s to the present. Questioning the social place of women and proposing alternative understandings of biological bodies, these artists eroded repressive systems and created symbolic strategies of resistance to dictatorships, racism, and marginalization.     Giunta presents close readings of works—paintings, films, photography, multimedia art, installations, and performances—by a myriad of artists spanning from Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay to Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico. Examining themes of visibility, subjectivity, empathy, and liberation, The Political Body tells the story of an ongoing revolution, providing an active intervention in the history of feminist art in and beyond Latin America.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49747910361361,"sku":"NGR9780520344327","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51002957463825,"sku":"NIN9780520344327","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0520344324.jpg?v=1751429941"},{"product_id":"borderless-painting-as-borderless-art-book-srgio-b-martins-9780520422483","title":"Borderless Painting as Borderless Art","description":"The artwork of Antonio Dias (1944–2018) uniquely captures the interwoven histories of Brazilian postwar realism and of European conceptualism in the 1960s and 1970s. By tracking Dias’s ever-shifting works and circulation as he moved from Rio de Janeiro to Paris, and then to Milan, Borderless Painting as Borderless Art provides the first in-depth study of the artist.   Sérgio B. Martins uses Dias’s trajectory as a lens to explore different approaches to avant-gardism and its crisis in Brazil, France, and northern Italy, weaving in the perspectives of figures such as Hélio Oiticica, Harald Szeemann, Pierre Restany, Giulio Paolini, and Tommaso Trini, as well as the Fluxus movement. The book ultimately argues that Dias pitted his formation in a semi-peripheral avant-garde against a post–avant-gardist milieu where commodity culture and market relations were far more pervasive and determinant vis-à-vis the arts scene.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":52605333405969,"sku":"NGR9780520422483","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780520422483.jpg?v=1761646328"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/studies-on-latin-american-art-and-latinx-art-book-series.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}