Resisting the present, Mexico 2000-2012
Title | Resisting the present, Mexico 2000-2012 PDF eBook |
Author | Museo Amparo (Puebla, Mexico) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 364 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN |
An exhibition consisting of some 50 works, 'Resisting the Present' brings together a generation heavily committed to the social and political development of Mexico.
Resisting the present
Title | Resisting the present PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 347 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Art, Mexican |
ISBN |
Resistiendo El Presente. Resisting the Present
Title | Resistiendo El Presente. Resisting the Present PDF eBook |
Author | Museo Amparo Musée D'Art Moderne de Paris |
Publisher | Rm |
Pages | 300 |
Release | 2011-10-20 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9788415118183 |
Resisting the Present showcases the work of Mexico's "New Generation" of artists--the creative forces behind the country's recent and much-discussed art boom. Born mostly after 1975, the 20 artists surveyed here represent an extraordinary scene that has developed over the past 15 years, in and around Mexico City. As Julia Chaplin recently noted in The New York Times, "Mexico City's extremes--its wealth and poverty, the tranquility of its leafy parks and the sunburned chaos of its hectic avenues--are particularly conducive to its current edgy creativity." Looking at 50 works ranging in genre from installation, sculpture and video to drawing and photography, Resisting the Present brings together emerging artists who have demonstrated an acute awareness of the region's extremes. Among the artists selected are Edgardo Aragón, Diego Berruecos, Mariana Castillo Unpacked, Minerva Cuevas, Jonathan Hernández, Arturo Hernández Alcázar, Bayrol Jimenez, Adriana Lara, Gonzalo Lebrija, Pablo Sigg, Tercerunquinto and Héctor Zamora.
The Roof Garden Commission
Title | The Roof Garden Commission PDF eBook |
Author | Iria Candela |
Publisher | Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Pages | 68 |
Release | 2020-08-27 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1588396894 |
The work of Mexican artist Héctor Zamora engages with urban or built environments, both disrupting and rearticulating the viewer’s interaction with the site. Lattice Detour, his most recent intervention, commissioned by The Met for its Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden, is fabricated from terracotta bricks produced in Mexico and transported to New York. This compact volume, the first book in English on Zamora, presents images and analysis of the new artwork, setting its creation in the context of his past work. An interview with Zamora sheds further light on his formation as an artist, his process, and his inspirations.
De-Pathologizing Resistance
Title | De-Pathologizing Resistance PDF eBook |
Author | Dimitrios Theodossopoulos |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 153 |
Release | 2017-10-02 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1317397746 |
In a time of renewed interest in insurrectionary movements, urban protest, and anti-austerity indignation, the idea of resistance is regaining its relevance in social theory. De-Pathologizing Resistance re-examines resistance as a concept that can aid social analysis, highlighting the dangers of pathologising resistance as illogical and abnormal, or exoticising it in romanticised but patronising terms. Taking a de-pathologising and de-exoticising perspective, this book brings together insights from older and newer studies, the intellectual biographies of its contributing authors, and case studies of resistance in diverse settings, such as Egypt, Greece, Israel, and Mexico. From feminist studies to plaza occupations and anti-systemic uprisings, there is an emerging need to connect the analysis of contemporary protest movements under a broader theoretical re-examination. The idea of resistance—with all of its contradictions and its dynamism—provides such a challenging opportunity. This book was originally published as a special issue of History and Anthropology.
Prometheus 2017
Title | Prometheus 2017 PDF eBook |
Author | Rebecca McGrew |
Publisher | Getty Publications |
Pages | 252 |
Release | 2017-08-29 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1606065440 |
Published by Pomona College of Art in association with Getty Publications José Clemente Orozco’s 1930 mural Prometheus, created for the Pomona College campus, is a dramatic and gripping examination of heroism. This thoughtful exhibition catalogue examines the multiple ways Orozco’s vision resonates with four artists working in Mexico today. Isa Carrillo, Adela Goldbard, Rita Ponce de León, and Naomi Rincón- Gallardo share Orozco’s interest in history, justice, social protest, storytelling, and power yet approach these topics from their own twenty-first-century sensibilities. These artists activate Orozco’s mural by reinvigorating Prometheus for a contemporary audience. This gorgeous volume presents substantial new scholarship connecting Mexican muralism with contemporary art practices. Three new essays address different aspects of Orozco, Prometheus, and the connections between Los Angeles and Mexico. The contributors take on a broad range of topics, from murals as public art to how Orozco’s work fits into contemporary frameworks of aesthetic theory. The book also includes a chronology, vibrant reproductions, and critical essays focused on the con-temporary artists.
Civil Resistance and Conflict Transformation
Title | Civil Resistance and Conflict Transformation PDF eBook |
Author | Véronique Dudouet |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 287 |
Release | 2014-09-15 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1317697774 |
This book investigates the decision-making process, rationale and determining factors which underlie the strategic shifts of armed movements from violent to nonviolent resistance. The revival of global interest in the phenomenon of nonviolent struggle since the 2011 Arab Spring offers a welcome opportunity to revisit the potential of unarmed resistance as an alternative pathway out of armed conflicts, in cases where neither military (or counter-insurgency) nor negotiated solutions have succeeded. This volume brings together academics from various disciplinary traditions and offers a wide range of case studies – including South Africa, Palestine and Egypt – through which to view the changes from violence to nonviolence within self-determination, revolutionary or pro-democracy struggles. While current historiography focuses on armed conflicts and their termination through military means or negotiated settlements, this book is a first attempt to investigate the nature and the drivers of transitions from armed strategies to unarmed methods of contentious collective action on the part of non-state conflict actors. The text concentrates in particular on the internal and relational factors which underpin the decision-making process, from a change of leadership and a pragmatic re-evaluation of the goals and means of insurgency in the light of evolving inter-party power dynamics, to the search for new local or international allies and the cross-border emulation or diffusion of new repertoires of action. This book will be of interest to students of security studies, peace and conflict studies, political sociology and IR in general.