"Artist, educator, curator, and critic Luis Camnitzer has been writing about contemporary art ever since he left his native Uruguay in 1964 for a fellowship in New York City. As a transplant from the "periphery" to the "center," Camnitzer has had to confront fundamental questions about making art in the Americas, asking himself and others: What is "Latin American art"? How does it relate (if it does) to art created in the centers of New ..."
New Art of Cuba(Updated) Revised Edition (Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture) by LuisCamnitzer Paperback, 456 Pages, Published 2003 by University Of Texas Press ISBN-13: 978-0-292-70517-3, ISBN: 0-292-70517-4
"Starting with the groundbreaking 1981 exhibit called "Volumen I," New Art of Cuba provided the first comprehensive look at the works of the first generation of Cuban artists completely shaped by the 1959 revolution. This revised edition includes a new epilogue that discusses developments in Cuban art since the book's publication in 1994, including the exodus of artists in the early 1990s, the effects of the new dollar economy on the sta ..."
"The human relations on which Vélez constructs his creative processes are as important as the final outcome, be that a performance, a film, an installation, or a photographic memoir. Vélez calls his practice "Aesthetics of Collaboration."
Conceptualism in Latin American Art Didactics of Liberation (Joe R. and Teresa Lozana Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture (Paperback)) by LuisCamnitzer Paperback, 364 Pages, Published 2007 by University Of Texas Press ISBN-13: 978-0-292-71629-2, ISBN: 0-292-71629-X
"Conceptualism played a different role in Latin American art during the 1960s and 1970s than in Europe and the United States, where conceptualist artists predominantly sought to challenge the primacy of the art object and art institutions, as well as the commercialization of art. Latin American artists turned to conceptualism as a vehicle for radically questioning the very nature of art itself, as well as art’s role in responding to soci ..."
"Artist, educator, curator, and critic Luis Camnitzer has been writing about contemporary art ever since he left his native Uruguay in 1964 for a fellowship in New York City. As a transplant from the "periphery" to the "center," Camnitzer has had to confront fundamental questions about making art in the Americas, asking himself and others: What is "Latin American art"? How does it relate (if it does) to art created in the centers of New ..."
New Art of Cuba by LuisCamnitzer Paperback, 400 Pages, Published 1993 by Univ Of Texas Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-292-71161-7, ISBN: 0-292-71161-1
New Art of Cuba(1st Edition) by LuisCamnitzer Hardcover, 400 Pages, Published 1994 by Univ Of Texas Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-292-71149-5, ISBN: 0-292-71149-2
"Starting with the groundbreaking 1981 exhibit called "Volumen I," New Art of Cuba provided the first comprehensive look at the works of the first generation of Cuban artists completely shaped by the 1959 revolution. This revised edition includes a new epilogue that discusses developments in Cuban art since the book's publication in 1994, including the exodus of artists in the early 1990s, the effects of the new dollar economy on the sta ..."
LuisCamnitzer The Volume Format: Hardcover by Camnitzer, Luis Hardcover, 72 Pages, Published 2021 by Gregory R. Miller & Co. ISBN-13: 978-1-941366-28-8, ISBN: 1-941366-28-7
"The line replicated until it became a surface, and the surface repeated until it became a 3-dimentional shape: the volume."
LuisCamnitzer The Hole Book by Camnitzer, Luis Hardcover, 64 Pages, Published 2023 by Gregory R. Miller & Co. ISBN-13: 978-1-941366-49-3, ISBN: 1-941366-49-X
"The book?s narrator is an explorer full of questions and curiosity: ?Some holes I dug myself. I poked my finger into slices of bread, sheets of paper, and the sand of beaches all over the world."
"There is no single criteria in the exhibition, opening spaces for tense intersections, armed with both correspondence and friction," says Valdés Figueroa, "Placing the questions raised by the works of this year's winners through the prism ..."
"Artist-run initiatives in North America provided a space for the presentation and legitimization of experimental work and for the assertion of socially progressive and politically radical ideas and questions. In making such spaces available, artist-run initiatives have operated alternately as flash points for heated debates and controversies, as well as platforms for social understanding and remaining for their audiences. Institutions b ..."
"... by one, by describing their technique: this one prints on extra-thick handmade
paper with a self-made hydraulic press; ... According to the introduction (and
maybe that was the image they had of themselves), the purpose of their work
seemed to be the technical breakthrough. ... to technical problems; working in
Uruguay, I faced the task of printing etchings on a hundred-year-old lithopress
without felts. It also didn't mean tha ..."
"The Fundación Cisneros' "Conversaciones/Conversations" series publishes firsthand testimonies of leading artists and intellectuals from Latin America. German-born Uruguayan Luis Camnitzer (born 1937) has been an influential artist, theorist, teacher and curator for nearly five decades. He was at the vanguard of 1960s Conceptualism, working in printmaking, sculpture installation and other media. Camnitzer's work challenges our perception ..."
"Contemporary Art in Latin America continues the ARTWORLD series, bringing to light innovative contemporary art from across the globe. Delving into the artistic work from specific major geographical regions, the series continues to showcase both established and unknown artists whose work connects with their roots.New in paperback, Contemporary Art in Latin America celebrates this intriguing region and its creative outputs, setting the vi ..."
"Shifter's 21st issue, Other Spaces, considers the body as a site where architecture's traditional polarities of private and public collapse. This polarity, mirrored in the distinctions we draw between individual and social freedoms and domestic and political action are challenged every day by spontaneous, collaborative re-imaginings of space. Other Spaces considers the body as a self-sufficient albeit precarious architecture. It not onl ..."