{"title":"Home page","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"life-as-activity","title":"Life as Activity: David Lamelas","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-v-11ba62d0=\"\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eLife as Activity: David Lamelas\u003c\/em\u003e developed from a graduate seminar in Hunter College’s Advanced Certificate in Curatorial Studies and is supported by ISLAA through our Artist Seminar Initiative, an education and curatorial program that fosters intimate exchanges between students and living Latin American and Latinx artists. The book accompanied an eponymous exhibition at Hunter College’s Leubsdorf Gallery, open from November 3–December 18, 2021.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/islaa.org\/exhibitions\/exhibition_partner-2021-nov-hunter-lamelas\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/islaa.org\/exhibitions\/exhibition_partner-2021-nov-hunter-lamelas\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBlurring the line between fact and fiction, the works featured in \u003cem\u003eLife as Activity: David Lamelas\u003c\/em\u003e invite viewers to move through space and time by identifying with images of celebrities. This new collection brings together Lamelas’s experiments in a wide variety of media—including sculpture, film, photography, and video—to emphasize the constructed nature of narrative and identity. Made by this influential conceptual artist in Argentina, Europe, and the United States between 1966 and 2020, the thirteen projects featured in this book demonstrate the agile and inventive ways Lamelas has played with form and medium. \u003cem\u003eLife as Activity: David Lamelas\u003c\/em\u003e includes full-color illustrations of new works by the artist and never-before-seen documents from his personal archives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEdited by David Lamelas and Harper Montgomery. 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Provocative in nature, this book investigates the way that artists, critics, and designers considered the relationship between the crisis of the modernist concept of artistic medium and the radical social transformation brought about by the accelerated capitalist development of the preceding decades. Beginning with Oscar Masotta’s sui generis definition of the term, Karen Benezra proposes dematerialization as a concept that allows us to see how disputes over the materiality of the art and design object addressed questions concerning the role of appearance, myth, and ideology in the dynamic logic structuring social relations in contemporary discussions of aesthetics, artistic collectivism, and industrial design. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDematerialization\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e brings new insights to the fields of contemporary art history, critical theory, and Latin American cultural studies.\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40848617963579,"sku":"PU.UCP.KB","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0590\/4406\/9435\/files\/dematerialization.jpg?v=1694579247"},{"product_id":"refined-material-petroculture-and-modernity-in-venezuela","title":"Refined Material: Petroculture and Modernity in Venezuela","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eRecipient of the \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e24\u003csup data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eth\u003c\/sup\u003e Annual \u003cspan class=\"il\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eALAA\u003c\/span\u003e-Arvey Foundation Book Award and the \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cspan\u003eLASA Best Book in Latin American Visual Culture Studies 2024\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eVenezuela’s turbulent twentieth century saw boom and bust as the former Spanish colony transformed into a major postwar cultural player. 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The history of Latin American art exhibitions that is thus constructed considers the array of social and institutional contexts where art is created, presented, and experienced, as well as the ideologies inherent in diverse mechanisms of display and interpretative tools. Spanning exhibitions, performance programs, and biennials from 1965 to 2021, the publication suggests a vernacular history of curatorial practice as told by figures who are shaping the field of Latin American art today.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAn Exhibition History of Latin American Art\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ewas edited by Alejandro Cesarco and Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy. The publication features texts by Lupe Álvarez, Magalí Arriola, Patricia Bentancur, Fernanda Brenner, Rosina Cazali, Sara Hermann, Inés Katzenstein, Miguel A. 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