Research Catalog

Title

Escultura social : a new generation of art from Mexico City / Julie Rodrigues Widholm ... [et al.]

Author

Widholm, Julie Rodrigues.

Publication

Chicago : Museum of Contemporary Art ; New Haven : Yale University Press, 2007.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Amorales, Carlos, 1970-
• Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago, Ill.)
• Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University.

Description

223 p. : col. ill.; 26 cm.

Summary

"Mexico City has emerged as a thriving center of contemporary art. Escultura Social: A New Generation of Art from Mexico City features recent work by a group of artists whose influence has already extended far beyond Mexico and focuses on how they have contributed to an international dialogue through their use of nontraditional materials, new media, and critical perspectives." "This book takes Joseph Beuys's idea of "social sculpture," or escultura social, as a multivalent reference point for understanding how these socially engaged works promote a demystified and democratic concept of art-making. Featuring the work of twenty artists, this bilingual volume includes several artists' writings by Stefan Bruggemann and Mario Garcia Torres, Abraham Cruzvillegas, Yoshua Okon, and Pedro Reyes - about artist-run exhibition spaces. Critical essays on the contemporary Mexican scene and relevance of Beuys's ideas are accompanied by illustrated texts on each artist in this unique and important book."--Jacket.

Alternative Title

New generation of art from Mexico City

Subject

• Art, Mexican > Exhibitions
• Art, Mexican > Mexico City > 21st century > Exhibitions
• Artists > Mexico City > Exhibitions
• Mexico City (Mexico) > Art

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs

Note

• "This catalogue is published in conjunction with the exhibition 'Escultura Social: A New Generation of Art from Mexico City', organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art , Chicago, and curated by Julie Rodriguez Widholm, Assistant Curator."--[P. 6].

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 218-223) and index.

Language (note)

• Text in English with Spanish translation.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

María Alós -- Carlos Amorales -- Julieta Aranda -- Gustavo Artigas -- Stefan Brüggemann -- Miguel Calderón -- Fernando Carabajal -- Abraham Cruzvillegas -- Dr. Lakra -- Mario García Torres -- Daniel Guzmán -- Pablo Helguera -- Gabriel Kuri -- Nuevos Ricos -- Yoshua Okón -- Damián Ortega -- Fernando Orgeta -- Pedro Reyes -- Fernando Romero -- Los Super Elegantes.

ISBN

• 9780300134278
• 0300134274

OCLC

154689095

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library