El verbo cautivo

Catalog of full page color photos of Moises Finale's (b. Matanzas, Cuba) abstract art infused with images of mythological creatures from Greek and Roman antiquity; extensive biography and chronology.

Pablo Neruda's incisive political words accompany the transcendent art of indigenous Ecuadorian painter Oswaldo Guayasamn as the two great masters combine to make an impassioned plea for the dignity and sovereignty of Latin America.

This catalogue focuses on painting from 1968 with its great social, political, and aesthetic changes and the beginning of a military dictatorship that would last until the return of democracy in 1989. Each of the artists expresses his or her own identity as a Panamanian. Nevertheless, there is a cohesiveness to their art, each painter representing an important element in the highly textured, nuanced perspective of contemporary painting in Panama.

Against All Odds reproposes Keith Haring as a political artist who incorporated issues around consumerism, drug addiction and AIDS into his concerns, and casts his art as a joyous expression of Nietzsche's "will to power," surmounting cultural malaise with graphic boldness. Haring's relationship with Don and Mera Rubell began early on in his career, when the Rubells visited the Mudd Club (one of New York's earliest discos) in 1981, to see an exhibition of graffiti art which Haring had co-curated. This volume contains the entirety of their collection, much of which is reproduced for the first...