«Desconcertante, lista a inquietar a la crítica, está ya en los escaparates la primera novela de Juan Rulfo, Pedro Páramo, que transcurre en una serie de transposiciones oníricas, ahondando más allá de la muerte de sus personajes, que uno no sabe en qué momento son sueño, vida, fábula, verdad, pero a los que se les oye la voz al través de la 'perspicacia despiadada y certera' de tan sin duda extraordinario escritor.» Con estas palabras iniciaba Edmundo Valadés la primera reseña de Pedro Páramo, aparecida el 30 de marzo de 1955 y conservada por Rulfo entre sus papeles.
Desde entonces, escritores como Jorge Luis Borges, Gabriel García Márquez, Gu¨nter Grass, Susan Sontag y Mario Vargas Llosa, o el cineasta Werner Herzog, entre muchos más de cualquier lengua, coinciden en calificar esta novela como una de las obras maestras de la literatura de todos los tiempos. La encuesta del Instituto Nobel de Suecia, de 2002, dirigida a un centenar de escritores y estudiosos de todo el mundo, ubicó a Pedro Páramo entre las cien obras que constituyen el núcleo del patrimonio universal de la literatura
Angel Albarran et Anna Cabrera (tous deux nés en 1969) imprimeurs renommés pour de nombreux musées et photographes, dont Masao Yamamoto, livrent ici leur premier travail en tant qu'artistes. Leur pratique expérimentale mêle techniques d'impressions modernes et anciennes : ils interrogent ainsi les traces que la photo peut saisir du passé, notre relation au temps et à la mémoire, et la perception de l'image photographique entre réalité et illusion.
The iconic Mexican painter as seen through over 300 archival items, from her wardrobe to her personal art collection This compendium presents the rich diversity of themes, ideas, concepts and emotions generated around two fundamental, iconic figures of modern Mexico: painter Frida Kahlo and her husband, muralist Diego Rivera.
More than 300 images from the archives of the Museo Frida Kahlo in Mexico City offer readers a glimpse of Kahlo's distinctive wardrobe and the impressive collections of popular and pre-Hispanic art she assembled with Rivera, her connection with photography and the history of La casa azul, her beloved cobalt-blue home that now serves as the museum's main building. This volume welcomes us into Frida Kahlo's universe, exploring the legacy of an indispensable figure in the world of 20th-century art and culture in her native Mexico and across the globe.
Frida Kahlo (1907-54) began painting at the age of 18 when she was immobilized for several months as a result of a bus crash that left her permanently disabled. From then on, art served as an immense source of healing for Kahlo as well as a vehicle for self-expression and cultural exploration. At the heart of Kahlo's practice was her love for Mexican folk tradition, her staunch communist beliefs and her complex relationship with her body, gender and sexuality. A lifelong activist, Kahlo died of a pulmonary embolism after participating in a demonstration against the CIA's invasion of Guatemala.
A colossal trove of the countless design gems and innovations of modern publishing in Latin America .
This massive publication offers the first comprehensive panorama of the Latin American illustrated book between the 1920s and 1940s, a period characterized by the rapid modernization of the region. The books reproduced here encapsulate this transformative era, expressing and embodying emergent national and continental narratives in Latin American countries.
Diagramming Modernity reproduces more than 1,000 illustrated first editions, analyzing the cornucopia of cultural narratives they contain. In addition to showcasing relatively unknown work by many consecrated artists, the publication also boasts an extensive repertoire of avant-garde artists largely forgotten until today. Chapters are devoted to countries and to specific themes such as Word-Image, Verbal Visualities, Pre-Columbianisms and Ancestralisms, and Social and Political Graphics. Writers and thinkers Rodrigo Gutiérrez Viñuales, Riccardo Boglione, Juan Manuel Bonet, Mariana Garone Gravier and Dafne Cruz Porchini conscientiously investigate these themes and more.
A cinematic meditation on how physical settings and realities are shaped by fictional and popular narratives.
Spanish photographer Mikel Bastida (born 1982) makes staged photographs inspired by cinema and history. In this latest photobook he constructs a new vision of the United States through cinematic references such as the ghost town in Archer County, Texas, from Bogdanovich's film adaptation of The Last Picture Show by McMurtry.
The first overview in a decade of the dazzling Surrealist universe of Leonora Carrington?artist, author, occultist, feminist.
In recent years, the art and fiction of Surrealist painter and author Leonora Carrington have received much mainstream recognition, but?until now?there has been no authoritative overview of her work. Divided into 10 sections, Revelation introduces Carrington's singular artistic universe, displaying an extensive array of her wide-ranging creations (including paintings, drawings and tapestries) and fusing a chronological narrative of her life with a study of the most prominent themes in her work?from her training and early influences in England and Florence to her contact with the Surrealists in Paris, through her time in Saint-Martin-d'Ardèche, her traumatic experiences in Spain, her immigration to New York and her new homeland in Mexico. Punctuating the reproductions are archival materials, book excerpts and documentary photographs.
Leonora Carrington (1917-2011) was a British-born artist, Surrealist painter and novelist, famed for her narrative scenes inhabited by mystical figures participating in curious rituals. After fleeing Europe during World War II, she lived most of her adult life in Mexico City, where she was a founding member of the women's liberation movement.
Ce catalogue accompagne une exposition à la Fundacion Mapfre (30 septembre 2020 - 10 janvier 2021). Lee Friedlander y présente son travail réalisé après son exposition au MoMA en 2005. Dans une édition conçue par Lee Friedlander et son épouse Maria, l'ouvrage rassemble 350 images de l'un des photographes les plus influents de notre temps et l'un des maîtres de la photographie aux États-Unis du XXe siècle. Depuis les années 1960, Friedlander est un chroniqueur infatigable de son propre monde et de son environnement. Ses photographies révèlent à la fois les aspects communs et inattendus de la vie quotidienne.
A significantly expanded edition of Carrington's acclaimed Tarot series, featuring new archival images and research.
The British-born Mexican surrealist Leonora Carrington (1917-2011) spent a lifetime exploring the esoteric traditions of diverse cultures, and incorporated their ideas and symbols into her artistic and literary oeuvre. Tibetan Buddhism, the Kabbalah, ancient Egyptian and Mesopotamian magic, Celtic mythology, witchcraft, astrology and the Tarot were filtered through her feminist lens to create a visionary, woman-centered worldview.
Carrington created a spectacular Major Arcana Tarot deck sometime during the 1950s, laying gold and silver leaf over brilliant color. Exhibited for the first time during her centennial exhibition Leonora Carrington: Magical Tales in 2018, this extraordinary work was a revelation for the public and inspired the publication of The Tarot of Leonora Carrington.
This second, considerably expanded edition--encouraged by the overwhelmingly positive reception of Fulgur's publication in 2020--explores further the central position that the Tarot held in Carrington's work. The volume includes an introductory text by her son Gabriel Weisz Carrington, who recalls his mother's long involvement with the Tarot, followed by a revised and more extensive essay by scholar Susan Aberth and curator Tere Arcq, including detailed analysis of each card: their color symbolism, their relationship to other works and their iconographic origins in ancient esoteric beliefs, including the Mesoamerican influences of her adopted country.
This new edition also reproduces previously unpublished photographs and images, as well as exciting new research into Carrington's influences, emphasizing the authors' claim that her work on the Major Arcana represents an esoteric roadmap to Carrington's feminist vision and wish for a new global gender equality toward a better ecological future for our planet.
Six decades of cityscapes and depictions of social transformation across Latin America Born in Gorizia, Italy in 1934 and nationalized as Venezuelan in 1954, photographer Paolo Gasparini is a leading figure in modern Latin American photography, known for his unflinching portrayal of the cultural tensions and profound internal contradictions of the American continent. Gasparini has travelled extensively throughout Latin America, from Cuba to Venezuela, where he eventually settled, and beyond, capturing the diversity and visual culture of the region he came to call home.
This publication, accompanying the eponymous exhibition, surveys six decades of his photographic career wherein an itinerary through the ever-changing landscapes of cities such as Caracas, La Habana, Sao Paulo or Mexico seems to echo that of Munich, Paris, Madrid or London. The catalog features essays by María Wills, curator of the exhibition, Horacio Fernández, Antonio Muñoz Molina and Juan Villoro, as well as a concise biography of Gasparini by Sagrario Berti.
La Cucaracha, dernier projet du photographe Pieter Hugo, a été créé au Mexique en 2018 et 2019. Cette série de photos dépeint les personnes et les situations rencontrées par l'artiste au cours de ces quatre séjours à Mexico, Oaxaca de Juárez, Juchitán et Hermosillo. Les portraits et natures mortes mettent en avant l'ouverture de cet artiste voyageur face à des situations génériques mais inattendues.
Des timbres aux affiches grand format en passant par les magazines, les tracts, les partitions ou les publicités, ce livre rassemble plus de 350 imprimés mexicains des années 1910 aux années 1960, allant des micro-tirages aux impressions en quantité massive. Cette banque d'image engagée et colorée en dit long sur l'Histoire du pays après la Révolution Mexicaine de 1910, sur la culture de l'imprimé qui y reste omniprésente et sur l'importance que l'imagerie populaire mexicaine, entre fantasme et réalité.
À la mort de Frida Kahlo en 1954, sa maison familiale, la légendaire Casa Azul, fut changée en musée. Peintures, céramiques, dessins et livres furent sélectionnés et exposés, tandis que le reste (objets, vêtements, documents, dessins et lettres, ainsi que plus de 6 000 photographies) fut stocké dans la salle de bain restée fermée, et ainsi rendu inaccessible pendant plus de 50 ans. Au coeur de l'événement qu'a constitué l'ouverture de cette réserve se trouve la redécouverte des photos prises par Frida Kahlo et souvent annotées de sa main : un témoignage unique sur sa vie, ses influences visuelles et artistiques. Une sélection de ces images est présentée dans ce livre.
Le Jeu de Paume présente, en collaboration avec le Museo Amparo de Puebla (Mexique), la première exposition rétrospective de la photographe Kati Horna (1912-2000), retraçant plus de six décennies de production en Hongrie, en France, en Espagne et au Mexique. Mexicaine d?adoption, elle fait partie de la génération de photographes hongrois contraints de quitter leur pays en raison des conflits et de l?instabilité sociale des années 1930.
Aux antipodes d'une photographie frontale aux grands formats qui s'imposent au spectateur, Masao Yamamoto développe depuis vingt ans une oeuvre discrète qu'il faut approcher pour en saisir la finesse et la subtilité. Ses images sont comme des fragments de vie à jamais indéchiffrables, éclairs de grâce comparables à des haïkus. Ses tirages, de petits formats qu'il réalise lui-même avant de les patiner et de les user, ont fait l'objet de nombreuses expositions.
Trente ans ont passé depuis qu'a eu lieu le plus grave accident nucléaire à Tchernobyl. Le photojournaliste Kazuma Obara s'est rendu en Ukraine de février 2015 à avril 2016 et y a photographié les portraits de ceux directement impactés par l'explosion et qui ont ainsi vu leur vie changée à jamais. Exposure présente ses trente portraits d'hommes et femmes de Tchernobyl, dans un ensemble de deux livres et une réplique de journal.
A treasure trove of Mexican modernist design uniting craft and industry from the past seven decades.
In 1952, Cuban Mexican designer Clara Porset organized Mexico's first design exhibition, El arte en la vida diaria: Objetos de buen diseño hechos en México (Art in Daily Life: Well-Designed Objects Made in Mexico). The show marked a turning point in the trajectory of Mexican design by envisioning the unification of local traditions and industrialization.
A Handmade Modernism reviews the notion of craft design produced and theorized in Mexico from 1950 to the present, tracing a genealogy of artists, designers and craftspeople who have created a hybrid, mestizo material culture, and thereby create an image of a new way of life. Through a series of essays, installation shots and archival images, the book examines the wealth of industrial graphic design, clothing, furniture, objects, jewelry and fashion created during the last 70 years in Mexico.
