This Must Be the Place: An Oral History of Latin American Artists in New York, 1965–1975
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Author: Lukin, Aime Iglesias
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. They worked in conversation with experimental practices while exploring topics of migration, identity, politics, exile and nostalgia. This title is the first book of its kind to highlight this generation of artists in interviews and primary source material, reflecting their unique perspectives.Organised 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.Artists include: Carmen Beuchat, Luis Camnitzer, José Guillermo Castillo, Enrique Castro-Cid, Eduardo Costa, Antonio Dias, Juan Downey, Anna Bella Geiger, Rubens Gerchman, Leandro Katz, Anna Maria Maiolino, Marta Minujín, Raphael Montañez Ortiz, Marcelo Montealegre, Abdias do Nascimento, Hélio Oiticica, Lydia Okumura, Sylvia Palacios Whitman, Rolando Peña, Liliana Porter, Alejandro Puente, Raquel Rabinovich, Miguel Rio Branco, Freddy Rodríguez, José Rodriguez-Soltero, Osvaldo Romberg, Zilia Sánchez, Juan Trepadori, Andreas Valentim and Regina Vater.Institutional and collective initiatives include: Brigada Ramona Parra, Cha/Cha/Cha, CHARAS, Contrabienal, El Museo del Barrio, Latin American Fair of Opinion, New York Graphic Workshop, Young Filmmakers Foundation, Taller Boricua and the Young Lords.
ISBN 9781879128507. Americas Society/ISLAA. pb. 248 pages. 250 colour ills. 23 x 17 cm.
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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. They worked in conversation with experimental practices while exploring topics of migration, identity, politics, exile and nostalgia. This title is the first book of its kind to highlight this generation of artists in interviews and primary source material, reflecting their unique perspectives.Organised 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.Artists include: Carmen Beuchat, Luis Camnitzer, José Guillermo Castillo, Enrique Castro-Cid, Eduardo Costa, Antonio Dias, Juan Downey, Anna Bella Geiger, Rubens Gerchman, Leandro Katz, Anna Maria Maiolino, Marta Minujín, Raphael Montañez Ortiz, Marcelo Montealegre, Abdias do Nascimento, Hélio Oiticica, Lydia Okumura, Sylvia Palacios Whitman, Rolando Peña, Liliana Porter, Alejandro Puente, Raquel Rabinovich, Miguel Rio Branco, Freddy Rodríguez, José Rodriguez-Soltero, Osvaldo Romberg, Zilia Sánchez, Juan Trepadori, Andreas Valentim and Regina Vater.Institutional and collective initiatives include: Brigada Ramona Parra, Cha/Cha/Cha, CHARAS, Contrabienal, El Museo del Barrio, Latin American Fair of Opinion, New York Graphic Workshop, Young Filmmakers Foundation, Taller Boricua and the Young Lords.
ISBN 9781879128507. Americas Society/ISLAA. pb. 248 pages. 250 colour ills. 23 x 17 cm.
available