Bøger udgivet af Americas Society,US

Ancient gold artifacts and contemporary gilded artworks trace the legacy of one of the most pervasive myths of colonialismPresenting art from the precolonial period to today, this publication examines how the myth of El Dorado has shaped the history of the Americas and its cultural production.

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, during a time of global cultural and social upheaval, a key group of Latin American artists migrated to New York. Part of the generational shift toward Happenings, Minimalism and Conceptualism, they worked in conversation with experimental practices while exploring topics of migration, identity, politics, exile and nostalgia. Drawing from both American culture and the cultures of their countries of origin, their works reflect the unique perspectives both as insiders and outsiders that these artists had as newcomers. Conceived as a visual reader with newly sourced and existing testimonies, This Must Be the Place is the first book of its kind to highlight this generation of artists in interviews and primary source material. Organized by themes and illustrated with artworks, photographs and other archival material, the testimonies of these artists offer the reader a dynamic, candid and historically rich memoir of 1960s and 1970s New York. Exhibition: Americas Society, New York, USA (15.09. - 15.05.2022).

Key textile works by Feliciano Centuriâon, combining folk art and queer aesthetics in 1990s South America. Through the embroidery and painting of vernacular objects such as blankets and aprons, Paraguayan artist Feliciano Centuriâon (1962-96) rendered poetic readings of his youth in the tropics, his experiences of love in the metropolis and his reflections prior to his untimely death from AIDS-related illness. Since his death, Centuriâon's work has been largely overlooked, only recently receiving recognition. This book traces the short but vibrant career of a remarkable artist. With essays and reproductions, it attends to Centuriâon's stories of the self - his love life, his disease - but also stories of a cultural body searching for a new political expression in a changing world. The book reproduces over 80 key works by the artist, accompanied by numerous details and archival material.

Beginning with a Bang! features the shift between the explosive moment in the Argentine art scene of the 1960s and the current scene emerging during the last 40 years. The exhibition catalogue brings together a historical section as well as information of performance-based actions, and sound and video works by Argentine contemporary artists.