| Management number | 237125183 | Release Date | 2026/07/10 | List Price | US$5.59 | Model Number | 237125183 | ||
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This publication is an image-ful glance at the exciting contemporary art made by Maya and Zoque painters, photographers, sculptors and performance and new media artists from the southern state Chiapas, Mexico. Emerging and mid-career creators mix and match a range of strategies, rescuing Classic Maya imagery, reconfiguring traditional backstrap weaving motifs, freely appropriating the colonial heritage and Western figurative representation.This picture book mirrors the themes and schemes of contemporary art practice among traditionalist peoples. The new wave of Maya/Zoque artists honor their culture through respect for the old ways and militant hope for the new, employing irony, spiritual vision and exposé of historic and actual injustices. Addressing publics both of the contemporary artworld and their Indigenous communities of origin, the Maya/Zoque creators wield art to fashion their identities in a chaotic Now.Espacio Artístico MUY (Gallery MUY) offers Art Today as part of its mission to enrich, and share, Native American visions of their own place in the world. MUY is an artist-guided cultural space in San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas, founded in 2014, including exhibition galleries, workshops in which MUY-affiliated artists work, archives, a residency program and a collection on loan of Maya and Zoque contemporary art, for which this booklet serves as a catalogue.Este libro de imágenes explora los temas y estrategias más importantes de artistas contemporáneos de pueblos originarios de Chiapas, México. En este nuevo movimiento cultural creadores mayas y zoques honran a sus pueblos al representar las costumbres ancestrales y proyectarse con una esperanza militante a lo nuevo. Emplean la ironía, una visión espiritual y una denuncia de injusticias históricas y actuales. Dirigiéndose tanto al público del mundo del arte contemporáneo como a sus propias comunidades indígenas de origen, los creadores maya/zoque utilizan el arte para ir reconfigurando identidades en un Ahora en acelerada transformación.El Espacio Artístico MUY (Galería MUY) ofrece Art Today como parte de su misión de enriquecer, y compartir al mundo, reflexiones cosmo-culturales maya/zoques a través del arte visual. El MUY es un centro cultural en San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas, fundado en 2014, que incluye galerías de exhibición, talleres de artistas afiliados a MUY, archivos, un programa de residencia y una colección en préstamo de arte contemporáneo maya y zoque. Read more
| ASIN | B0DB2N5W2W |
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| ISBN13 | 979-8329473612 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Independently published |
| Dimensions | 8 x 0.16 x 10 inches |
| Item Weight | 7 ounces |
| Print length | 66 pages |
| Publication date | July 16, 2024 |
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