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Condition: Good. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Ex-library, so some stamps and wear, but in good overall condition. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 187 pp. Light spotting front wrap, light corner wear. Rubber stamp back endpaper - o/w unmarked. Spine straight and uncreased.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 192 pp. with full-colour illustrations. Text in English, French and Spanish. Cover lightly rubbed and edgeworn, with 1/4" tear at upper spine. "As an event - an action in time and space - the CARTOGRAPHIES exhibition has two objectives: first, to present a sample of the production of contemporary Latin American art and participate in the current debate about this alleged category of art; second, to propose a curatorial methodology capable of approaching the production of contemporary art, critically standing up to insitutionalized tradition and preserving the specificity of the plastic discourses. CARTOGRAPHIES intends to examine whether what we have come to call 'Latin American' in the visual arts is capabe of describing and interpreting in a holistic and productive manner the art produced in the corresponding continent. The project also debates the role of the curator of contemporary art in face of her institualization as a mark of knowledge and power in the contemporary visual arts circuit." Features the work of José Bedia, German Botero, Marta Maria Pérez Bravo, Maria Fernanda Cardoso, Mario Cravo Neto, Juan Davila, Iole de Freitas, Gonzalo Diaz, Carlos Fajardo, Julio Galan, Guillermo Kuitca, José Leonilson, Alfred Wenemoser, and Nahum Zenil.…

Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. pp. 57. Slim Square 8vo. Cardboard-type binding held with a masktape style binding along the spine. The binding embodies the central thesis of the exhibition namely that of the emergence of vernacular art. Replete with lovely colour photographs, illustrations, facsimiles, etc. No detectable flaws, contents bright, clean, and unmarked with tight, sound binding. Near fine. "Significant attention has been paid in recent years to the vernacular turn in contemporary art. The burgeoning notion that artists are moving away from industrial fabrication and precious materials toward handmade processes and modest mediums has come to be seen as emblematic of a generation of artists "returning" to the studio to the scale of the everyday". …