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Self-Constructing

Autoconstrucción

Rose Mary Salum

Cruzvillegas Abraham Cruzvillegas (b. 1968) is one of the most important conceptual artists of his generation. Over the past 10 years, the artist has developed a riveting body of work…

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War Photography

Fernando Castro

War Photography In memory of my friend Jay Colton, friend to many of the photographers in this exhibit. Arguably modern warfare began with the introduction into the battlefieldof automatic weapons…

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Abstraction, Form, And Energy In The Sculpture Of Mac Whitney

John Zotos

Mac Whitney In a career that extends over four decades after completing an MFA degree at the University of Kansas, it could easily be said that Mac Whitney is as…

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An Interview With Alison de Lima Green, Curator, and Enrique Mallén, Founder of the Picasso Project

Debra D. Andrist

Picasso´s Exhibition Interview While Literal is ordinarily dedicated to Voces Latinoamericanas, extraordinary converging circumstances inspired this interview highlighting a voice from the Madre Patria, the mother country–Pablo Picasso of…

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Regarding the Pain of Mexico

John Pluecker

A puff of smoke rising from the desert floor. Two boys kneeling, arms raised to display wooden blocks in their hands. A body lying prostrate before tall trees and verdant…

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An Interview With Alison de Lima Green, Curator, and Enrique Mallén, Founder of the Picasso Project

Debra D. Andrist

Picasso Black and White_Media Images (You can download the entire article here) While Literal is ordinarily dedicated to Voces Latinoamericanas, extraordinary converging circumstances inspired this interview highlighting a voice from…

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Masterpieces from El Prado Museum

Teresa Bordona

Spanish Painting In Front Of A Mirror The Museo Nacional del Prado in Madrid opened to the public in 1819 during the reign of Carlos III with an exceptional collection…

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Una marioneta problema Sobre Pinocho, de Francisco Toledo

Tanya Huntington

I Los niños abandonados se pierden en la selva negra, mientras unos desconocidos monstruosos los acechan con intenciones asesinas. Ese tipo de argumento, que hallamos en cuentos tan diversos como…

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Hand Signals: Digits, Fists, and Talons

Ludwig Hohlwein

Hands—a part of the human body through which we communicate, sense, measure, and interact with the material world—are explored in this selection of 20th-century posters and graphic ephemera drawn from…

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Judy Chicago, Linda Nochlin And The Birth of Feminist Art

Fernando Castro R.

Judy Chicago Judy Chicago is credited for coining the term “feminist art.” That was in 1970 when she started the first feminist art program in the United States at the…

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Pictures at an Exhibition, Constructed Dialogs

Fernando Castro R.

Arte-MFH This fall the Museum of Fine Arts is featuring an exhibition with the long title of Constructed Dialogues: Concrete, Geometric, and Kinetic Art from the Latin American Art Collection.…

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Nor Space, Nor Time

Rose Mary Salum

Pedro Tyler Translated to English by Tanya Huntington Rose Mary Salum: From the start of your career, the concept of what can be gauged, or how to measure the immeasurable,…