Offers a study that asks how the art produced about the US-Mexico border - from picture postcards to films and performances - reflects political and economic transformations occurring worldwide. Starting with a discussion of photography and film about the Mexican Revolution, this book traces how this border has been represented in art.
Offers a study that asks how the art produced about the US-Mexico border - from picture postcards to films and performances - reflects political and e...
During the Cold War, the Organization of American States, formerly the Pan American Union, actively promoted artists from Latin America and the Caribbean that demonstrated affiliation with influential modernist styles such as Constructivism, Surrealism, Art Informel, and Abstract Expressionism. Cuban Jose Gomez-Sicre, the Visual Arts Specialist of the OAS, exhibited artists sympathetic to international trends in contemporary art, with the intention of demonstrating the cosmopolitanism of Latin artists and emphasizing freedom of expression in the American republics. "Libertad de Expresion"...
During the Cold War, the Organization of American States, formerly the Pan American Union, actively promoted artists from Latin America and the Caribb...
