Latin American Comics

BURNING DOWN THE HOUSE: LATIN AMERICAN COMICS IN THE 21ST CENTURY (GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES IN COMICS STUDIES)

Editor: Laura Cristina Fernández & 2 more.

Publisher: Routledge India; 1st edition

ISBN-13:   978-1032148311

Burning Down the House explores the political, economic and cultural landscape of 21st-century Latin America through comics. It examines works from Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Uruguay, Perú, Colombia, México and Spain, and the resurgence of comics in recent decades spurred by the ubiquity of the Internet and reminiscent of the complex political experiences and realities of the region. The volume analyses experimentations in themes and formats and how Latin American comics have become deeply plural in its inspirations, subjects, drawing styles and political concerns while also underlining the hybrid and diverse cultures they represent.

YOUR BRAIN ON LATINO COMICS: FROM GUS ARRIOLA TO LOS BROS HERNANDEZ (COGNITIVE APPROACHES TO LITERATURE AND CUTURE SERIES)

Author: Frederick Luis Aldama

Publisher:  University of Texas Press

ISBN-13: 978-0292719347

Though the field of comic book studies has burgeoned in recent years, Latino characters and creators have received little attention. Putting the spotlight on this vibrant segment, Your Brain on Latino Comics illuminates the world of superheroes Firebird, Vibe, and the new Blue Beetle while also examining the effects on readers who are challenged to envision such worlds. Exploring mainstream companies such as Marvel and DC as well as rising stars from other segments of the industry, Frederick Aldama provides a new reading of race, ethnicity, and the relatively new storytelling medium of comics themselves. 

MAFALDA: A SOCIAL AND POLITICAL HISTORY OF LATIN AMERICA’S GLOBAL COMIC (LATIN AMERICA IN TRANSLATION)

Author: Isabella Cosse

Publisher: Duke University Pess Books

ISBN-13: 978- 1478006381

Since its creation in 1964, readers from all over the world have loved the comic Mafalda, primarily because of the sharp wit and rebellious nature of its title character—a four-year-old girl who is wise beyond her years. Through Mafalda, Argentine cartoonist Joaquín Salvador Lavado explores complex questions about class identity, modernization, and state violence. In Mafalda: A Social and Political History of Latin America's Global Comic—first published in Argentina in 2014 and appearing here in English for the first time—Isabella Cosse analyzes the comic's vast appeal across multiple generations. 

COMICS AND MEMORY IN LATIN AMERICA (PITT ILLUMINAITONS)

Editors: Jorge Catala Carrasco, Paulo Drinot and James Scorer

Publisher: University of Pittsburg Press

ISBN-13: 978- 0822964247

Latin American comics and graphic novels have a unique history of addressing controversial political, cultural, and social issues. This volume presents new perspectives on how comics on and from Latin America both view and express memory formation on major historical events and processes. The chapters offer a background history of comics and graphic novels in the region, and survey a range of countries and artists such as Joaquín Salvador Lavado (a.k.a Quino), Héctor G. Oesterheld, and Juan Acevedo. This volume documents the essential role of comics during the transition from dictatorship to democracy.

Latin American Visual Arts from Yale University Press

THE ARTS IN LATIN AMERICA, 1492-1820

Author: Joseph J. Rishel

Publisher: Yale University Press

ISBN-13:  978-0300120035

By the end of the 16th century, Europe, Africa, and Asia were connected to North and South America via a vast network of complex trade routes. This led, in turn, to dynamic cultural exchanges between these continents and a proliferation of diverse art forms in Latin America. This monumental book transcends geographic boundaries and explores the history of the confluence of styles, materials, and techniques among Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas through the end of the colonial era––a period marked by the independence movements, the formation of national states, and the rise of academic art.

PICTURING THE AMERICA

Edited by: Peter John Brownlee, Valéria Piccoli and Georgiana Uhlyarik

Publisher: Yale University Press

ISBN-13: 978-0300211504

As nations in the Americas gained independence in the early 19th century, a pictorial landscape tradition emerged. By 1840, landscape painting had become the primary medium for articulating conceptions of land and nation in the development of North and South American cultural identity. Picturing the Americas offers the first comprehensive treatment of this genre on both American continents, bringing into dialogue the landscape traditions of artists practicing between 1840 and 1940. Leading scholars offer a Pan-American perspective on these landscape traditions: essays consider the emergence of modernism, and how the development of landscape imagery reflects the geographies and sociopolitical histories of the two continents.

MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY MASTERWORKS FROM MALBA – FUNDACIÓN CONSTANTINI

Author: Mari Carmin Ramírez and Marcelo Pacheco

Publisher: Yale University Press

ISBN-13: 978-0300181005

The renowned Costantini Collection consists of more than two hundred works, encompassing drawings, paintings, sculptures, and objects by seventy-eight artists from various countries, including Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Chile, Ecuador, Mexico, Uruguay, and Venezuela.

In the spirit of cultural exchange, MALBA and the International Center for the Arts of the Americas (ICAA) at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, are joining together to exhibit fifty of these works, spanning from the beginning of the 20th century to the present day. Among the celebrated artists represented in this beautiful book are Frida Kahlo, Wifredo Lam, Roberto Matta, and Diego Rivera.

READINGS IN LATIN AMERICAN MODERN ART

Edited by: Patrick Frank

Publisher: Yale University Press

ISBN-13: 978-0300102550

This important and welcome volume is the first English-language anthology of writings on Latin American modern art of the twentieth century. The book includes some fifty seminal essays and documents—including statements, interviews, and manifestoes by artists—that encompass the broad diversity of this emerging field; many of which are difficult to access, and some are translated here for the first time. Included in this collection are fascinating ideas and insights on the impact of the avant-garde in the 1920s, the Mexican mural movement, Surrealism and other fantasy-based styles, modern architecture, geometric and optical art, concrete and neo-concrete art, and political conceptualism.