FRESCOS: 50 ARTISTAS PUERTORRIQUEÑOS MENORES DE 35 = 50 PUERTO RICAN ARTISTS UNDER 35

San Juan, PR: Muuaaa, 2011. color plates, hard cover. OCLC: 701806942. New. Item #98339

FRESCOS presents the work of 50 Puerto Rican artists under 35 years of age, selected by 10 internationally-recognized curators. These artists are members of a cosmopolitan generation who studied or work all around the world-in Europe and Asia as well as the Americas. Eight essays provide a context for their production. FRESCOS is a provocative book, the first to document the work of this generation as a whole, aiming to spark the curiosity of anyone, whether specialist or not, interested in Puerto Rican art and contemporary art in general. Artists included: Rebecca Adorno, Rogelio Báez, Javier Bosques, Osvaldo Budet, Melissa Calderón, Efrén Candelaria, Myritza Castillo, Jorge 'Rito' Cordero, Corográfico, Bobby Cruz, Jorge Díaz, Esteban Gabriel, Alia Farid Abdal, Mónica Félix, Radamés 'Juni' Figueroa, Frances Gallardo, Ignacio González Lang, Michelle Gratacós, Pablo Guardiola, Karlo Andrei Ibarra, Edgardo Larregui, Michael Linares,, among others... Contents: Prólogo = Foreword -- Frescos / Celina Nogueras Cuevas -- Ponle más Puerto Rico a la cosa = Put more Puerto Rico into it / Pablo León de la Barra -- Borderline, o cómo sacarle provecho a una insularidad límite = Borderline, or how to squeeze the juice out of frontier insularity / Paco Barragán -- Anotaciones paradógicas sobre el arte puertorriqueño = Paradoxical comments on Puerto Rican art / Elvis Fuentes -- Apuntes sobre una escena emergente = Notes on an emerging scene / Marianne Ramírez Aponte -- La mirada del sonido = The sight of sound / Cheryl Hartup -- Redefiniendo el paraiso: hacia una nueva estética "tropical" urbana = Redefinning paradise: toward a new "tropical" urban aesthetic / Marysol Nieves -- Arte joven de Puerto Rico: un capítulo actual en la política de lo íntimo y lo universal = Young art from Puerto Rico: a current chapter in the politics of intimate vs. universal / Juan Carlos López Quintero -- Comité curatorial = Curatorial committee -- Sobre la editora = About the editor.

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