Winner, 2005 Western Books Exhibition, Rounce &amp; Coffin Club, 2005
Julie Speed's meticulous craftsmanship and attention to detail bring to mind the work of painters from the fifteenth and sixteenth century Renaissance. Unlike those artists, however, Speed is inspired by an almost limitless number of easily available sources and is unencumbered by the sexual and societal restrictions of past centuries, which gives her the freedom to paint what she wants and the way she wants. This places her body of work squarely in the present. Utilizing her keen sense of the absurd, Speed ponders the big questions—the role of religion, isolation and longing, sexuality, sin and guilt—with a sly, sometimes black, sense of humor and a steadfast refusal to offer the viewer any tidy resolutions. It is the emphatically open-ended and omnivorous nature of her work, combining anxiety, erotica, and violence with the subversive power of beauty, that puts Speed in the vanguard of a return to figurative painting in contemporary art. To bring Speed's mysterious and compelling work to a wider audience, this beautifully illustrated volume presents one hundred color plates of her oil paintings, constructions and works on paper. Accompanying the plates are essays by art historians Elizabeth Ferrer and Edmund Pillsbury that discuss Speed's relationship to generations of figurative painters, from the artists of the Renaissance to the present, as well as her affinities with and differences from the surrealists, dadaists, and other historical movements. Rounding out the volume are fascinating excerpts from the "Books of Conversation," a series of public journals initiated by the Austin Museum of Art in connection with a touring survey of Speed's work, in which museum-goers wrote down their ideas, opinions, and questions for the artist, to which she provided written answers.

Julie Speed: Paintings, Constructions, and Works on Paper

Arts & Photography

Ferrer, Elizabeth

Pillsbury, Edmund P.

Speed, Julie

Individual Artists

University of Texas Press

Latinx Photography in the United States: A Visual History

Review "[A] discerning and timely illustrated history...this revealing volume will appeal to scholars and anyone with an interest in Latinx art.""―Publishers Weekly"Ferrer's thoroughly researched text situates Latinx photographers as prominent practitioners in the medium's history and as key to its development, and every single image sings."―Booklist"[A]n impressive and urgenty needed survey to launch a conversation about Latinx people's role in visually chronicling the United States."―PopMatters"Ferrer presents a concise history of the ways in which Latinx artists have been quintessential to the development of the medium."―ARTnews, Best Art Book of 2021"[A] groundbreaking survey of Latinx photography."―Choice"A remarkable feat that reveals the incredible richness, diversity, and abundance of photography produced by Latino artists. This is a timely and necessary contribution to the literature on Latino art in the United States, and one that is long overdue."―Colin Gunckel, University of Michigan"Makes perfectly clear that we cannot understand the visual history of the United States without centering the work of Latinx photographers. This essential resource should revolutionize how we teach art history."―Arlene Dávila, author of Latinx Art: Artists, Markets, and Politics"This is a foundational survey of the field. Ferrer has broken out of the East Coast/West Coast binary to investigate the vibrant contributions of photographers in many other parts of the country, thus deepening our understanding of the work of artists of Latin American heritage throughout the United States."―Edward Sullivan, New York University Product Description Whether at UFW picket lines in California's Central Valley or capturing summertime street life in East Harlem Latinx photographers have documented fights for dignity and justice as well as the daily lives of ordinary people. Their powerful, innovative photographic art touches on family, identity, protest, borders, and other themes, including the experiences of immigration and marginalization common to many of their communities. Yet the work of these artists has largely been excluded from the documented history of photography in the United States.Through individual profiles of more than eighty photographers from the early history of the photographic medium to the present, Elizabeth Ferrer introduces readers to Latinx portraitists, photojournalists, and documentarians and their legacies. She traces the rise of a Latinx consciousness in photography in the 1960s and '70s and the growth of identity-based approaches in the 1980s and '90s. Ferrer argues that in many cases a shared sense of struggle has motivated photographers to work purposefully, driven by a deep sense of resistance, social and political commitments, and cultural affirmation, and she highlights the significance of family photos to their approaches and outlooks. Works range from documentary and street photography to narrative series to conceptual projects. Latinx Photography in the United States is the first book to offer a parallel history of photography, one that no longer lies at the margins but rather plays a crucial role in imagining and creating a broader, more inclusive American visual history. Book Description Showcases the exceptionally diverse photographic work of Latinx artists About the Author Elizabeth Ferrer, a writer, curator, and arts activist and administrator, is vice president of Contemporary Art at BRIC in Brooklyn.

History & Criticism

University of Washington Press

Review\n"[A] discerning and timely illustrated history...this revealing volume will appeal to scholars and anyone with an interest in Latinx art.""―Publishers Weekly\n"Ferrer's thoroughly researched text situates Latinx photographers as prominent practitioners in the medium's history and as key to its development, and every single image sings."―Booklist\n"[A]n impressive and urgenty needed survey to launch a conversation about Latinx people's role in visually chronicling the United States."―PopMatters\n"Ferrer presents a concise history of the ways in which Latinx artists have been quintessential to the development of the medium."―ARTnews, Best Art Book of 2021\n"[A] groundbreaking survey of Latinx photography."―Choice\n"A remarkable feat that reveals the incredible richness, diversity, and abundance of photography produced by Latino artists. This is a timely and necessary contribution to the literature on Latino art in the United States, and one that is long overdue."―Colin Gunckel, University of Michigan\n"Makes perfectly clear that we cannot understand the visual history of the United States without centering the work of Latinx photographers. This essential resource should revolutionize how we teach art history."―Arlene Dávila, author of Latinx Art: Artists, Markets, and Politics\n"This is a foundational survey of the field. Ferrer has broken out of the East Coast/West Coast binary to investigate the vibrant contributions of photographers in many other parts of the country, thus deepening our understanding of the work of artists of Latin American heritage throughout the United States."―Edward Sullivan, New York University\nWhether at UFW picket lines in California's Central Valley or capturing summertime street life in East Harlem Latinx photographers have documented fights for dignity and justice as well as the daily lives of ordinary people. Their powerful, innovative photographic art touches on family, identity, protest, borders, and other themes, including the experiences of immigration and marginalization common to many of their communities. Yet the work of these artists has largely been excluded from the documented history of photography in the United States.\nThrough individual profiles of more than eighty photographers from the early history of the photographic medium to the present, Elizabeth Ferrer introduces readers to Latinx portraitists, photojournalists, and documentarians and their legacies. She traces the rise of a Latinx consciousness in photography in the 1960s and '70s and the growth of identity-based approaches in the 1980s and '90s. Ferrer argues that in many cases a shared sense of struggle has motivated photographers to work purposefully, driven by a deep sense of resistance, social and political commitments, and cultural affirmation, and she highlights the significance of family photos to their approaches and outlooks. Works range from documentary and street photography to narrative series to conceptual projects. Latinx Photography in the United States is the first book to offer a parallel history of photography, one that no longer lies at the margins but rather plays a crucial role in imagining and creating a broader, more inclusive American visual history.\nBook Description\nShowcases the exceptionally diverse photographic work of Latinx artists

A commentary on the art of Paul Laffoley, spanning many of the great works in his career.

Architectonic Thought Forms: A Survey of the Art of Paul Laffoley, 1968 - 1999

Austin Museum of Art

Laffoley, Paul

Published on the occasion of an exhibition at the Austin Museum of Art.

Salomon Huerta: Paintings

In his stunning series, La Tumba de la Reina Roja: From Reality to Abstraction, Mexican painter Ricardo Mazal expresses the profound sensations he experienced while visiting the Tomb of the Red Queen, a recently discovered burial site dating to about 600 AD at Palenque, the ancient Maya ceremonial city. Mazal began this body of work by extensively photographing the site's temples, stones, and surrounding landscape. These images became the basis for abstract works that reflect a creative dialogue between digital technology and traditional painting modes. In color photographs, monotypes, and monumentally scaled paintings, Mazal eloquently interprets the myriad themes evoked by this Maya noblewoman and her tomb--history and time's passage, spirituality, nature and culture, and human mortality.Ricardo Mazal was born in 1950 in Mexico and resides in Santa Fe and New York. The exhibition and publication of La Tumba de la Reina Roja: From Reality to Abstraction is a collaborative effort between Mazal and Chiaroscuro Gallery, Santa Fe and Scottsdale. He has exhibited his work extensively in the United States, Latin America, and Europe, including at such institutions as the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, Mexico (MARCO); the Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, Museo de Antropologia, Mexico City; the Americas Society, New York; and the Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe. Mazal has received the prestigious Creador Artístico award from the Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte (FONCA), Mexico, and a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant.

Ricardo Mazal: La Tumba de la Reina Roja: From Reality to Abstraction Paintings, Photographs, Drawings and Installation

Gonzaléz Cruz, Arnoldo

Fresco Fine Art Publications, LLC

A landmark survey of one of the most significant American photographers of the twentieth century Best known for his intimate portrayals of barrio communities of the Southwest United States, Louis Carlos Bernal made photographs in the late 1970s and 1980s that draw upon the resonance of Catholicism, Indigenous beliefs, and popular practices tied to the land. For Bernal, photography was a potent tool in affirming the value of individuals and communities who lacked visibility and agency. Working in both black and white and in color, he photographed the interiors of homes and their inhabitants, often presenting his subjects surrounded by the objects they lived with--framed portraits of family members, religious pictures and statuaries, small shrines festooned with flowers, and elements of contemporary popular culture. Bernal viewed these spaces as rich with personal, cultural, and spiritual meaning, and his unforgettable photographs express a vision of la vida cotidiana--everyday life--as a state of grace. The first major scholarly account of Bernal's life and work by the esteemed historian Elizabeth Ferrer, Louis Carlos Bernal: Monografía is the definitive book about an essential photographic artist. Copublished by Aperture and the Center for Creative Photography, Tucson

Louis Carlos Bernal: Monografía

Photography & Video

Aperture

Very clean, in a very good condition, no notes or highlighting inside, it is in a very good shape, ship fast.

The True Poetry: The Art of Maria Izquierdo

Americas Society

This first comprehensive monograph in English for Mexico's first major female photographer tracks a career equally exceptional for its remarkable range and for its compelling quality. Lola Alvarez Bravo explored her calling through photojournalism, commercial work and professional portrait-making, even as she was creating intensely personal images of people, places and things throughout her native Mexico. In addition, she played a vital role in the Mexican cultural scene as an inspiring teacher, a friend of innumerable artists (many of whom she photographed), and as the owner of a prestigious gallery that presented the first solo show by her friend Frida Kahlo, the subject of some of Alvarez Bravo's most powerful portraits. Although some of her photographs reflect the influence of her husband, Manuel Alvarez Bravo—they shared the same cameras and often the same roll of film—Lola had achieved her own aesthetic by the 1940s and 50s, concentrating on two particularly vivid bodies of work, portraiture and street photography. In these two disciplines she found a way to reveal a lyricism in the world around her, producing quiet reveries on life lived in the moment. This first English-language book to encompass the full range of her work includes previously unpublished images and several of her little-known photomontages.

Lola Alvarez Bravo

La presente obra recoge alrededor de 100 fotografías en blanco y negro de la primera fotógrafa mexicana. Sus imágenes están delicadamente tramadas de ironía y juegos visuales, y presentan en algunos momentos la técnica del collage, con una reinterpretación significativa de objetos y personas. Con ideas depuradas y claras, Álvarez Bravo muestra ángulos muy particulares de Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, la ciudad de México y diversos personajes de la vida cultural mexicana. El libro incluye un estudio de Elizabeth Ferrer en el que se transcriben fragmentos de entrevistas con la fotógrafa y sus amistades.

Lola Álvarez Bravo (Spanish Edition)

FONDO DE CULTURA ECONOMICA*

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Julie Speed: Paintings, Constructions, and Works on Paper

Latinx Photography in the United States: A Visual History

Latinx Photography in the United States: A Visual History

Architectonic Thought Forms: A Survey of the Art of Paul Laffoley, 1968 - 1999

Salomon Huerta: Paintings

Ricardo Mazal: La Tumba de la Reina Roja: From Reality to Abstraction Paintings, Photographs, Drawings and Installation

Louis Carlos Bernal: Monografía

The True Poetry: The Art of Maria Izquierdo

Lola Alvarez Bravo

Lola Álvarez Bravo (Spanish Edition)