Caribbean Artists
Jean Bruno Louisius
Below are web links to a selected list of historical and contempoary artists from the Caribbean region. Biographical information on these and other artists will also be found in our databses, Britannica Online, Art Cyclopedia, and Wikipedia. Many of the artists have video representation on www.youtube.com. The web links vary in content and should be treated as a starting point. In many cases the selected web site is just one of many interesting sites for a particularl Artist.
Mexican & Central American Artists
Artemio rodriguez
Below are web links to a selected list of historical and contempoary artists from Mexico and Central America. Biographical information on these and other artists will also be found in our databses, Britannica Online, Art Cyclopedia, and Wikipedia. Many of the artists have video representation on www.youtube.com. The web links vary in content and should be treated as a starting point. In many cases the selected web site is just one of many interesting sites for a particularl Artist.
South American Artists
Marcelo Bonevardi
Below are web links to a selected list of historical and contempoary artists from South America. Biographical information on these and other artists will also be found in our databses, Britannica Online, Art Cyclopedia, and Wikipedia. Many of the artists have video representation on www.youtube.com. The web links vary in content and should be treated as a starting point. In many cases the selected web site is just one of many interesting sites for a particularl Artist.
Web Sites
- A Different Grain: Woodcuts, Artists, and Politics in Buenos AiresDiscusses modernwoodcut art within the context of Argentina's artistic past.
- Graphic Evidence of Mexico's FermentReviews "Modern Printmaking: A Revolution in the Graphic Arts 1920-1950" at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
- National Gallery of JamaicaFeatures a Blog that surveys Jamaica's art pioneers. Provides information on the nation's prominent artists and provides images of their art work.
- Petrine ArcherThis web site, created by Petrine Archer, features text and videos about Caribbean art and artists (including images), "Negrophilia," and extensive links to related web sites.
- Printmaking - From Revolution to EstablishmentDiscusses the social aspects of the early 20th century.
- Puerto Rican PainterFeatrures biographies and art works of more than 25 Puerto Rican artists and a short history of Puerto Rican Painting.
- National Art Gallery of the BahamasFeatures a blog, an image gallery, video links, links to Bahamian galleries, and to caribbean galleries and museums.
Recommended Books
Mexican Art Masterpieces by ISBN: 0883635984Publication Date: 1998-07-28Mexico's art history has been evolving for more than 2000 years and modern Mexican art embodies elements and characteristics of centuries of indigenous art. Imbued with traces of ancient mysticism and combining both pagan and Christian beliefs, Mexican art is both visual and narrative in nature - as colourful and complex as the Mexican people themselves. This work showcases 48 pieces of Mexican art - ancient ceramic statues and mosaic masks from the Mayans and Aztecs, tomb facades and interior temple reliefs, feather pictures, monstrances, classically inspired painting by artists of the viceregal period including Baltasar de Echeve Orio and Juan Rodriguez Juarez, 19th century masterpieces by Obregon and Velasco, and 20th century favourites including works by Mexican muralist Rivera, Orozco, Kahlo and others - each accompanied by an essay revealing the complicated connections between Mexican politics, society and art.
Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo in Detroit by ISBN: 9780300211603Publication Date: 2015-04-07A landmark publication focusing on both Rivera and Kahlo during a critical year in each of their careers From April 1932 through March 1933, Diego Rivera (1886-1957) and Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) spent a dramatic and pivotal sojourn in Detroit. Against the backdrop of the Great Depression and amid labor protests in the city, Rivera created his Detroit Industry murals, one of the most important and accomplished works of art made in the United States in the 20th century, for the Detroit Institute of Arts. Kahlo, meanwhile, developed her own artistic identity almost unnoticed, emerging with an oeuvre of extraordinarily expressive work. For this beautifully illustrated catalogue, Mark Rosenthal and a team of scholars have written essays that examine the artists, the city of Detroit in this period, and the commissioning of the murals by Edsel Ford, the patron, and William Valentiner, then director of the museum. Rivera's cartoons for the murals are highlighted along with new archival research conducted by Rivera's grandson, Juan Rafael Coronel Rivera. Featuring more than 100 color illustrations of works by both artists, this book presents Detroit as a profoundly important place for the artistic development of Rivera and Kahlo.
Diego Rivera by ISBN: 9781844846559Publication Date: 2009-10-01Diego Rivera is celebrated by Gerry Souter as a virtuoso Mexican muralist, where he could express at once his legend and myths, his technical talent, his intense story-telling focus and self-indulgent ideological convictions. His easel paintings and drawings also constitute a large body of both his early and late work and are represented in the book. Gerry Souter, the author of the remarkable Frida Kahlo, overcomes his huge admiration for Diego Rivera to give the artist a human dimension, found in his political choices, his love affairs and his belief that this truth was Mexico, the language of his thoughts, the blood in his veins, the azure sky above his resting place.
Latin American Art of the 20th Century by ISBN: 9780500203569Publication Date: 2004-10-17This compelling and comprehensive survey introduces an exceptionally rich, fascinating and complex art. Edward Lucie-Smith discusses major subjects and issues: Magic Realism, Expressionism and other concepts shared with Latin American literature; the great muralists Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros and José Clemente Orozco; the interaction of politics, society and art; the continuing interest in folk art; and the dialogue between avant-garde European and North American movements and 'indigenist' thinking in the work of artists such as Wifredo Lam, Matta, Rufino Tamayo and Frida Kahlo. In this revised edition, a new final section presents the leading artists of today, some of whose work in the fields of interactive installation, photography and video art reveals a continent embracing the experimental and the new.
Art and Revolution in Latin America, 1910-1990 by ISBN: 0300082118Publication Date: 2002-07-11Craven investigates the impact of Latin American revolutions on the visual arts and on cultural policy. The three upheavals - in Mexico (1910-40), in Cuba (1959-89), and in Nicaragua (1979-90) - were defining moments in American 20th-century life.
Nexus New York by ISBN: 9780300158960Publication Date: 2009-10-27An examination of the pioneering Caribbean and Latin American artists who resided in New York prior to WWII and shaped the American avant-garde Between 1900 and 1942, New York City was the site of extraordinary creative exchange where artists could share ideas in a global context. The swiftly changing urban landscape before and between the World Wars inspired the erosion of artistic boundaries and fostered a new climate of modernist experimentation. Nexus New Yorkfocuses on key artists from the Caribbean and Latin America who entered into dynamic cultural and social dialogues with the American-based avant-garde and participated in the development of a new modern discourse. Featuring both celebrated and little-known figures of this period, including Carlos Enríquez, Alice Neel, Marius de Zayas, Francis Picabia, Joaquín Torres-Garcia, José Clemente Orozco, Matta, and Robert Motherwell, contributing authors also discuss the specific environments in which they flourished, including the Art Students League, the Siqueiros Experimental Workshop, and the New School for Social Research. A fascinating look at 20th-century modernism, this book provides the first view of the important encounters between artists of the Americas.
Thirteen Ways of Looking at Latino Art by ISBN: 9780822356271Publication Date: 2014-02-07The 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, Andres 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 exchanges inevitably open out to literature, history, ethics, politics, religion, and visual culture more broadly. Autobiographical details pepper Stavans and Gracia's conversations, as one or the other tells what he finds meaningful in a given work. Sparkling with insight, their exchanges allow the reader to eavesdrop on two celebrated intellectuals--worldly, erudite, and unafraid to disagree--as they reflect on the pleasures of seeing.
