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Book Image and Memory

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  • Author : Wendy Watriss
  • Publisher : University of Texas Press
  • Release : 1998
  • ISBN : 0292791186
  • Pages : 472 pages

Download or read book Image and Memory written by Wendy Watriss and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FotoFest 1992, a major festival of international photography, brought Latin American photography into focus for a wide audience. Offering a diverse selection of photographers, countries, artistic movements, and subject matter, the show revealed a photographic tradition rich in history and creativity. Drawing from the more than 1,000 images exhibited by FotoFest, this book documents the work of fifty-two photographers from ten countries. The photographs range from the opening of the Brazilian frontier in the 1880s to a secret archive of documentary images from El Salvador's recent civil war to works of specifically aesthetic intent. Many of the photographs appear here in print for the first time. Watriss's opening essay provides the curatorial overview for the book. Lois Zamora examines the roots of visual image-making in Latin American cultures. Boris Kossoy addresses the history of Latin American photography through the nineteenth century, while Fernando Castro covers the contemporary scene. With its compelling images and English-Spanish text, this book will serve as a benchmark for future studies of photography in Latin America.

Book On the Edge of the Panel

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  • Author : Julio Cañero
  • Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
  • Release : 2015-09-04
  • ISBN : 1443881996
  • Pages : 330 pages

Download or read book On the Edge of the Panel written by Julio Cañero and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2015-09-04 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To create a comic is not to illustrate words, but to create narrative diagrams and transform strokes into imaging words. The infinite array of possibilities that the merging of text and pictures provides is a garden of forking paths that critics have just started to explore. This is an art that operates as the crossroads of various disciplines, but whose specifications require a thorough understanding of its unique mechanisms. The explosion of experimental works and the incorporation of previously marginal (or nonexistent) genres and themes in comics have enriched an already fruitful art in ways that continue to surprise both readers and critics. This collection of essays offers a space of reflection on the cultural, social, historical, and ideological dimensions of comics. With this in the background, the book focuses on three main areas: the origins and definitions of comics; the formal tools of the medium; and authors and their works. The historical and formal approach to comics, as shown here, is still essential and the debate about the origins and definition is still present, but two thirds of this collection formulate other treatments that scholars had not started to tackle until recently. Does this mean that the study of comics has finally reached the necessary confidence to abandon the artistic legitimization of the medium? Or are they just new self defense mechanisms through alliances with other fields of academic interest? This book will add to the debate on comics, as did the international conference that led to it. It provides a channel of communication with an art, a two-headed medium that, like the god Janus, operates as a hinge, as a meeting point, as a bridge between pictorial and literary expression.

Book La desilusi  n de la imagen

Download or read book La desilusi n de la imagen written by Víctor Silva Echeto and published by Editorial GEDISA. This book was released on 2016-11 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La desilusión de la imagen. Arqueología, cuerpo(s) y mirada(s), plantea que las imágenes son vínculos entre distintas épocas y culturas, son síntomas e indicios que dejan huellas en el imaginario cultural. Son la elegíaca memoria como musa que deambula por los tiempos pero fuera de los tiempos (genealogía) o, en otros términos, las imágenes son Mnemosyne, es decir, la musa de todas las musas. Una arqueología de la imagen, implica considerar a la imagen desde la intermedialidad (entre-medios), los cuerpos y las miradas. Concebirla desde una crítica de la cultura en una contemporaneidad atravesada por la crisis. La pregunta ¿qué son las imágenes? que se formula desde la debilidad de cierta inocencia de la escritura, adquiere toda su dimensión desde el momento en que se confunde imagen con visualidad o imagen con medios audiovisuales, dejando por el camino todos los restos de imágenes que no son visuales. Aún más, ese debate se torna más complejo, cuando en su trasfondo está la «memoria» del holocausto (o de los holocaustos); las imágenes de la crisis política, económica y social o los miles de refugiados, en la paradigmática imagen de un niño muerto en la playa, deambulando por geografías europeas. La imagen es, en efecto, «nómada», viaja por territorios y culturas. Entonces, la inocencia de la pregunta se transforma en la imagen frágil de los que no tienen imagen. «La propuesta de Víctor Silva Echeto, es una de las mejor articuladas que conozco para pensar posibles alternativas a la situación de impasse a que parece abocarnos el mundo contemporáneo.» JENARO TALENS (escritor).

Book History and Modern Media

Download or read book History and Modern Media written by John Mraz and published by Vanderbilt University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-15 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In History and Modern Media, John Mraz largely focuses on Mexican photography and his innovative methodology that examines historical photographs by employing the concepts of genre and function. He developed this method in extensive work on photojournalism; it is tested here through examining two genres: Indianist imagery as an expression of imperial, neo-colonizing, and decolonizing photography, and progressive photography as embodied in worker and laborist imagery, as well as feminist and decolonizing visuality. The book interweaves an autobiographical narrative with concrete research. Mraz describes the resistance he encountered in US academia to this new way of showing and describing the past in films and photographs, as well as some illuminating experiences as a visiting professor at several US universities. More importantly, he reflects on what it has meant to move to Mexico and become a Mexican. Mexico is home to a thriving school of photohistorians perhaps unequaled in the world. Some were trained in art history, and a few continue to pursue that discipline. However, the great majority work from the discipline known as "photohistory" which focuses on vernacular photographs made outside of artistic intentions. A central premise of the book is that knowing the cultures of the past and of the other is crucial in societies dominated by short-term and parochial thinking, and that today's hyper-audiovisuality requires historians to use modern media to offer their knowledge as alternatives to the "perpetual present" in which we live.

Book La historia cultural

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  • Author : Philippe Poirrier
  • Publisher : Universitat de València
  • Release : 2015-05-16
  • ISBN : 8437089492
  • Pages : 255 pages

Download or read book La historia cultural written by Philippe Poirrier and published by Universitat de València. This book was released on 2015-05-16 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Desde hace dos o tres décadas la historia cultural ocupa un lugar preferente en la escena historiográfica, aunque con desfases cronológicos y distintas modalidades dependiendo de las circunstancias nacionales y, en este sentido, se impone una aproximación comparativa. El presente volumen pretende inscribirse en esta perspectiva, preguntándose por la realidad de un «giro cultural» en la historiografía mundial. Los numerosos colaboradores han aceptado responder a un plan de trabajo en el que, partiendo de la situación historiográfica de cada país, se analicen las modalidades de surgimiento y de estructuración de la historia cultural. La meta buscada no es normativa y contempla un planteamiento que combina el análisis de las obras, las singularidades de las coyunturas historiográficas y la organización de los mercados universitarios.

Book FotoFest  94

Download or read book FotoFest 94 written by and published by Fotofest. This book was released on 1994 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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  • Publisher : On The Mark Press
  • Release :
  • ISBN : 1770783407
  • Pages : 65 pages

Download or read book written by and published by On The Mark Press. This book was released on with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Imagenes reciprocas

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  • Author : Paul Ganster
  • Publisher : ANUIES
  • Release : 1991
  • ISBN : 9789688409961
  • Pages : 376 pages

Download or read book Imagenes reciprocas written by Paul Ganster and published by ANUIES. This book was released on 1991 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Intermarriage throughout History

Download or read book Intermarriage throughout History written by Luminița Dumănescu and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-06-02 with total page 515 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Going beyond classical theoretical approaches, Intermarriage throughout History provides a rich and unique collection of twenty-five essays which shed light on various models of family formation through non-homogamic marriage, from an historical and multi-disciplinary perspective. The volume originated from an international conference held at Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj, Romania, in early summer 2013, with a large international participation drawn mostly from Europe, Russia, North and South America. The book also has its roots in the long academic tradition of family and demographic historical and ethnographic studies in Transylvania, where scholars have been particularly active in these fields during recent decades at the international level. Given the strong pressures towards endogamy, people in the past who had a ‘mixed’ marriage deserve researchers’ full attention. How did they overcome the obstacles put in their path by church, family, state and community? Can scholars disclose the reasons for their remarkable choice of partner? And what were the implications of their mixed marriage for their daily lives and those of their children? Mixed marriages offer a window on the tensions between societal norms and social control on the one hand, and individual variation and individual choice, or ‘agency’, on the other.

Book Historia m  nima  La cultura mexicana en el siglo XX

Download or read book Historia m nima La cultura mexicana en el siglo XX written by Carlos Monsiváis and published by El Colegio de Mexico AC. This book was released on 2010-02-09 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: En esta obra póstuma, Carlos Monsiváis, con su estilo y erudición únicos, recorre un siglo de la vida cultural de México, si bien, como él mismo confiesa, ésta es una tarea inacabable a la que además se suma la brevedad de la obra, que le obliga a cerrar su crónica en la década de 1980, dejando fuera los movimientos y creadores de los dos últimos decenios del siglo XX. Su recorrido parte de la época del modernismo y pasa por todas las manifestaciones culturales que se desarrollan a lo largo de las siguientes décadas, como la narrativa de la Revolución, el muralismo, la cultura en los años veinte, los Contemporáneos, la poesía de la generación del 50 hasta llegar al año de la ruptura que representa 1968 y las manifestaciones culturales que de él se desprenden.

Book A Short History of Dutch Video Art

Download or read book A Short History of Dutch Video Art written by Sebastián López and published by episode publishers. This book was released on 2005 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Overzicht van de rol van migrantenkunstenaars in de Nederlandse videokunst van de afgelopen dertig jaar.

Book Nereo  Imagenes de Medio Siglo

Download or read book Nereo Imagenes de Medio Siglo written by Mario Picayo and published by Editorial Campana. This book was released on 2009 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sixty-three unforgettable images reveal the work of Colombia's most famous photographer. Traveling around the world with personalities such as Gabriel Garca Mrquez, documenting presidential visits to Colombia and capturing images deep in the Amazon jungle and on the Magdalena River, Nereo establishes his place as one of the great photographers of the twentieth century. This first book published outside of Colombia dedicated to his work will be a revelation to American aficionados. Bilingual.

Book E I A L

Download or read book E I A L written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Antiguo Oriente   Volume 13  2015

Download or read book Antiguo Oriente Volume 13 2015 written by Juan Manuel Tebes and published by CEHAO. This book was released on 2015-12-31 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Antiguo Oriente (abbreviated as AntOr) is the annual, peer-reviewed, scholarly journal published by the Center of Studies of Ancient Near Eastern History (CEHAO), Catholic University of Argentina.

Book La imagen pol  tica

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  • Author : Cuauhtémoc Medina
  • Publisher : UNAM
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN : 9789703218837
  • Pages : 660 pages

Download or read book La imagen pol tica written by Cuauhtémoc Medina and published by UNAM. This book was released on 2006 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The conference theme was dedicated to the study of the function of art in politics. The present edition compiles the 30 research works divided in 3 sub-topics: Poderes, Cuerpos y Espacios (Powers, Bodies and Spaces); Batallas por el Imaginario (Battles for the Imaginary) and Resistencia y Representación (Resistance and Representation).

Book Global History  Visual Culture and Itinerancies

Download or read book Global History Visual Culture and Itinerancies written by Francisco José Díaz Marcilla and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2020-11-18 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National studies have demonstrated their inability to correctly understand global phenomena, and the way in which they affect societies. This chronologically ambitious book investigates methodological and theoretical issues from Roman times to the present, in terms of globalization. In this context, one of the most relevant parameters of change emerges: the itinerancy of culture and knowledge. Therefore, this volume argues that itinerant agents carry with them cultural baggage, transporting and transmitting it to other spaces. In this way, interconnection begins, producing active changes in global history and visual culture. Contributions to this book focus on comparative studies, the evolution of global phenomena, historical processes in their diachrony, regional studies, changing economies, cultural continuities, and methodological questions on globalization, among others. In addition, the book opens with a contribution from Professor Peter Burke.

Book Implications of the image

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  • Author : Angélica Aguirre
  • Publisher : UNAM
  • Release : 2008
  • ISBN : 9789703254545
  • Pages : 260 pages

Download or read book Implications of the image written by Angélica Aguirre and published by UNAM. This book was released on 2008 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exhibition catalogue presents a series of works representatives of what has been the process of visual arts from the second half of the twentieth century to the present. It presents a collection where they are present more than seventy artists born between the decades of 30 and 50: as Gordon Matta-Clark, Donald Judd, Joseph Kosuth, Dan Flavin, Lazslo Moholy-Nagy, Matthew Barney, Thomas Ruff, Wolfgang Tillmans, Helio Oiticica, Douglas Gordon, Vanessa Beecroft, Francis Alys, Abraham Cruzvillegas, Santiago Sierra, Teresa Margolles, Gabriel Orozco among others, whose works make up this selection of high quality, representativeness and diversity of searches, finds and creative proposals. The common thread is the image, the starting point and destination of each of the works are collected in this selection: Drawing, painting, sculpture, installations, video art, and prominently, picture from several strands from the documentary to which explores the meaning and scope of the creative process.