Nov 18, 1998 by M. A. Bello
Image and Memory: Photography from Latin America, 1866-1994.
Edited by Wendy Watriss and Lois Parkinson Zamora.
Austin: University of Texas Press, 1998. 450 pages.
ISBN: 0-292-79118-6.
The publication of Image and Memory has been in the works since 1992 when FotoFest in Houston was mainly devoted to photography from Latin America. Like the exhibitions then, this bilingual [...]
Sep 12, 1998 by M. A. Bello
Latin American Art in the Twentieth Century. Edited by Edward J. Sullivan.
London: Phaidon Press Limited, 1996. 352 pages.
ISBN: 0-7148-3210-3.
When Latin American Art in the Twentieth Century was first published a couple of years ago, the book was very warmly received by English language readers. Since there is usually so little written in [...]
Jun 1, 1998 by M. A. Bello
Cristóbal de Villalpando ca. 1649-1714.
Juana Gutiérrez Hages, Pedro Angeles, Clara Bargellini and Rogelio Ruiz Gomar.
Mexico: Fomento Cultural Banamex, 1997. 444 pages.
ISBN: 968-7009-55-1.
A blockbuster of an exhibition — Cristóbal de Villalpando: pintor barroco novohispano — opened last November at the Palacio Iturbide in Mexico City. Eighty works by New Spain’s leading Baroque painter were [...]
May 2, 1998 by M. A. Bello
The Maya Textile Tradition.
Photographs by Jeffrey Jay Foxx. Edited by Margot Blum Schevill.
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1997. 232 pages.
ISBN: 0-8109-4291-7.
Photography books by Jeffrey Jay Foxx fall into the coffee table category. The success of both Living Maya (1989) and The Turquoise Trail (1993) is based on his truly magnificent photographs, not [...]
Mar 28, 1998 by M. A. Bello
Folk Art of Spain and the Americas. Marion Oettinger, Jr., Editor.
San Antonio Museum of Art and Abbeville Press, 1997. 199 pages.
ISBN: 0-7892-0378-2.
For the next couple of years, a major exhibition called El Alma del Pueblo will travel in the United States from San Antonio to Miami, Tucson, New York, Chicago, Sacramento, and San [...]
Feb 14, 1998 by M. A. Bello
El tesoro de La Merced, arte e historia. Ana María Urruela de Quezada, Editor.
Guatemala: Proyecto Artístico, Iglesia de La Merced/Compañía de Jesús
and CITBANK, 1997. 240 pages.
ISBN: 84-8377-411-9.
The church of La Merced in Guatemala City at the corner of 5ta. Calle and 11 Avenida in Zona 1 is a building of great historical importance. [...]