Contemporary Puerto Rican Installation Art: The Guagua Aerea, the Trojan Horse, and the Termite
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| Rating | : | 4.96 (603 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0847701972 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 113 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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A Customer said Pushing Puerto Rican Art History Forward. Laura Roulet takes Puerto Rico art history out of its time warp in more ways than one. Puerto Rican Art history books tend to be dull surveys, tributes or recycled manifestations of the "nationalistic" interpretation of Puerto Rican art. They are all broad brush. By choosing a few installation artists, Roulet is the first to write a book that explores this vibrant segment of Puerto Rico's art world. Roulet's crisp focus deepens the level of analysis of the art and artists well beyond the usu. Wonderfully insightful This study of Puerto Rican installation art is surely a definitive work which no future student or critic of the field could afford to ignore. But more strikingly it is also a wonderfully insightful guide for the layman, short on jargon and richly informative. Each artist presented here comes to life for the reader in a way that makes us all the more interested in the art. The art itself is described and explicated in lively, vivid and elegant prose. And Ms. Roulet offers a thorough overview
In Contemporary Puerto Rican Installation Art: The Guagua Aerea, the Trojan Horse and the Termite, Roulet traces (with 29 color prints) the movement from its inception in the 1960s (when Rafael Ferrer's seminal works and attitudes "really freaked out the establishment," the artist notes not just in Puerto Rico but also in New York's art scene) through to the mode's present incarnations, where artists like Antonio Morales explode "otherness" with industrial detritus and other found objects. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business I
Contemporary Puerto Rican Installation Art: The Guagua Aerea, the Trojan Horse, and the Termite book has been released since 0000-00-00. Contemporary Puerto Rican Installation Art: The Guagua Aerea, the Trojan Horse, and the Termite are written by Laura Roulet and it has 113 of pages on paperback.