Catalog

Catalog
Author: University of Texas. Library. Latin American Collection
Publisher:
Total Pages: 748
Release: 1969
Genre: Latin America
ISBN:

Beatriz Allende

Beatriz Allende
Author: Tanya Harmer
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Total Pages: 381
Release: 2020-03-11
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 146965430X

This biography of Beatriz Allende (1942–1977)—revolutionary doctor and daughter of Chile's socialist president, Salvador Allende—portrays what it means to live, love, and fight for change. Inspired by the Cuban Revolution, Beatriz and her generation drove political campaigns, university reform, public health programs, internationalist guerrilla insurgencies, and government strategies. Centering Beatriz's life within the global contours of the Cold War era, Tanya Harmer exposes the promises and paradoxes of the revolutionary wave that swept through Latin America in the long 1960s. Drawing on exclusive access to Beatriz's private papers, as well as firsthand interviews, Harmer connects the private and political as she reveals the human dimensions of radical upheaval. Exiled to Havana after Chile's right-wing military coup, Beatriz worked tirelessly to oppose dictatorship back home. Harmer's interviews make vivid the terrible consequences of the coup for the Chilean Left, the realities of everyday life in Havana, and the unceasing demands of solidarity work that drained Beatriz and her generation of the dreams they once had. Her story demolishes the myth that women were simply extras in the story of Latin America's Left and brings home the immense cost of a revolutionary moment's demise.

Encounters in Video Art in Latin America

Encounters in Video Art in Latin America
Author: Elena Shtromberg
Publisher: Getty Publications
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2023-02-14
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1606067923

With insightful essays and interviews, this volume examines how artists have experimented with the medium of video across different regions of Latin America since the 1960s. The emergence of video art in Latin America is marked by multiple points of development, across more than a dozen artistic centers, over a period of more than twenty-five years. When it was first introduced during the 1960s, video was seen as empowering: the portability of early equipment and the possibility of instant playback allowed artists to challenge and at times subvert the mainstream media. Video art in Latin America was—and still is—closely related to the desire for social change. Themes related to gender, ethnic, and racial identity as well as the consequences of social inequality and ecological disasters have been fundamental to many artists’ practices. This compendium explores the history and current state of artistic experimentation with video throughout Latin America. Departing from the relatively small body of existing scholarship in English, much of which focuses on individual countries, this volume approaches the topic thematically, positioning video artworks from different periods and regions throughout Latin America in dialogue with each other. Organized in four broad sections—Encounters, Networks and Archives, Memory and Crisis, and Indigenous Perspectives—the book’s essays and interviews encourage readers to examine the medium of video across varied chronologies and geographies.

The Allende Years

The Allende Years
Author: Lee H. Williams
Publisher: Boston : G. K. Hall
Total Pages: 350
Release: 1977
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780816179725

Library of Congress Catalog

Library of Congress Catalog
Author: Library of Congress
Publisher:
Total Pages: 904
Release: 1974-07
Genre: Subject catalogs
ISBN:

Beginning with 1953, entries for Motion pictures and filmstrips, Music and phonorecords form separate parts of the Library of Congress catalogue. Entries for Maps and atlases were issued separately 1953-1955.

Historical Dictionary of Costa Rica

Historical Dictionary of Costa Rica
Author: Theodore S. Creedman
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Total Pages: 370
Release: 1991
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780810822153

..".entries are clear, concise, and commendably to-date...useful for nearly any audience from the secondary level on up...an absolute necessity for any library interested in Costa Rica." --ARBA