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Title: Thirteen Ways of Looking at Latino Art
Condition: New
Author: Ilan Stavans, Jorge J. E. Gracia
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0822356341
EAN: 9780822356349
ISBN: 9780822356349
Publisher: Duke University Press
Genre: Society & Culture
Topic: Social Sciences, Arts & Photography
Release Date: 07/02/2014
Description: The essayist and cultural commentator Ilan Stavans and the analytic philosopher Jorge J. E. Gracia share long-standing interests in the intersection of art and ideas. Here they take thirteen pieces of Latino art, each reproduced in color, as occasions for thematic discussions. Whether the work at the center of a particular conversation is a triptych created by the brothers Einar and Jamex de la Torre, Andres Serrano's controversial Piss Christ, a mural by the graffiti artist BEAR_TCK, or Above All Things, a photograph by María Magdalena Campos-Pons, Stavans and Gracia's exchanges inevitably open out to literature, history, ethics, politics, religion, and visual culture more broadly. Autobiographical details pepper Stavans and Gracia's conversations, as one or the other tells what he finds meaningful in a given work. Sparkling with insight, their exchanges allow the reader to eavesdrop on two celebrated intellectuals—worldly, erudite, and unafraid to disagree—as they reflect on the pleasures of seeing.

Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 216mm
Item Length: 171mm
Item Weight: 426g
Release Year: 2014

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