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Artes de Mexico - Numero 23

En El Mundo de Luis Barragán (In the World of Luis Barragán)

Mexico, D.F. 1994, 1999.

Bilingual Edition (Spanish with English translation of text)

Paperback

96 pages

Condition: New

$275

Artes de Mexico - Numero 13

El Arte de la Suerte (The Art of Fortune)

Mexico, D.F. 1997

Bilingual Edition (Spanish with English translation of text)

Paperback

96 pages

Condition: Lightly Used

Artes de Mexico's thirteenth issue is an attempt to avoid the bad luck associated with this number by making it a colorful celebration of the art of fortune. Artists' interpretations of this elusive and evocative topic, and games of chance as an expression of combinatory possibilities, geometric forms and mysterious mathematical operations.

$225

Artes de Mexico - Numero 34

Zacatecas

Mexico, D.F. 2005.

Bilingual Edition (Spanish with English translation of text)

Paperback

88 pages

Condition: Lightly Used

The beauty of Zacatecas is unlike that of any other Mexican city: carved stone above ground, and a network of mining tunnels below. An excavation process that led to urban beautification. This issue discusses the history, architecture and legends of an old mining town, and guides us through some of the exceptional museums of Zacatecas.

$225

ARTES DE MEXICO - Numero 37

SERPIENTE VIRREINAL (Viceregal Serpent)

Mexico, D.F. 1997.

Bilingual Edition (Spanish with English translation of text)

Paperback

80 pages

Condition: New

$195

ARTES DE MEXICO - Numero 39

FRANCIA - MEXICO: IMAGENES COMPARTIDAS (France-Mexico. Shared Images)

Mexico, D.F. 1997.

Bilingual Edition (Spanish with English translation of text)

Paperback

112 pages

Condition: New

Mexico’s European roots are not only found in Spain. France has also played a decisive role in the organization of our institutions, in our sense of belonging, our sensibilities and tastes. How has this country influenced our process of nation-building? And across the ocean, what is France’s perception of Mexico?

$175

Saints & Sinners: Mexican Devotional Art

The California Heritage Museum
Edited by James Caswell and Jenise Amanda Ramos with essays by Gloria Fraser Giffords, Phillip Wrench, Janet Brody Esser, Martha Egan and others.
Schiffer Publishingh, Atglen PA, 2006
208 pages

$49.95 (hardcover)

Huichol Art and Culture: Balancing the World

Edited by Melissa S. Powell; and C. Jill Grady
Featuring the Robert M. Zingg Collection of the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture/ Laboratory of Anthropology
Museum of New Mexico Press, Santa Fe, 2010
166 pages

$45 (Paper)

Changing Dreams: A Generation of Oaxaca's Woodcarvers

Photographs by Vicki Ragan
Text by Shepard Barbash
Museum of New Mexico Press, Santa Fe, 2007
156 pages

$45 (Hardcover)

Revelaciones del arte popular mexicano

Revelaciones del arte popular mexicano

Essays by various authors: Octavio Paz, Alberto Roy Sanchez, Margarita de Orellana, Alfonso Alfaro, Gutierre Aceves Piña, Luz de Lourdes Velazquez Thierry, Luis Mario Schneider, Chloe Sayer, Bill Gilbert, Marta Turok, Lexa Jimenez Lopez, Sna Jolobil, Armgard W. Johnson, Alejandro de Avila, Ruth Lechoga, Ana Paulina Gomez, Gloria Fraser Giffords, Magali Tercero.

Published by Artes de Mexico and Smithsonian Books
Mexico, D.F. 2004.

Spanish Language Edition

Hardcover

360 pages

$45

The Crafts of Mexico

Essays by various authors: Octavio Paz, Alberto Roy Sanchez, Margarita de Orellana, Alfonso Alfaro, Gutierre Aceves Piña, Luz de Lourdes Velazquez Thierry, Luis Mario Schneider, Chloe Sayer, Bill Gilbert, Marta Turok, Lexa Jimenez Lopez, San Jolobil, Armgard W. Johnson, Alejandro de Avila, Ruth Lechoga, Ana Paulina Gomez, Gloria Fraser Giffords, Magali Tercero.

Published by Artes de Mexico and Smithsonian Books
Mexico, D.F. 2004.

English Language Edition

Hardcover

360 pages

Condition: Lightly Used

$45

Mexican Folk Retablos

Text by Gloria Fraser Giffords
Photographs by Jerry D. Ferrin
University of New Mexico Press
Albuquerque, 1992.
Revised Edition, 1992 (Originally published in 1974)
220 pages

Artists Included:

Mexican Folk Artists

$40

Mexican Folk Art from Oaxacan Artist Families

Arden Aibel Rothstein & Anya Leah Rothstein
Schiffer Books, Atglen, PA, 2002
224 pages

$39.95 (hardcover)

Artes de Mexico - Numero 10

Revisión Del Cine Mexicano (Mexican Cinema: A revision)

Mexico, D.F. 2001.

Bilingual Edition (Spanish with English translation of text)

Paperback

96 pages

Condition: New

A study in contrasts, familiar images, sequences, composition, faces and situations. Key figures in Mexican filmmaking reflect on this medium, its history and what it meant to them personally. Some of its greatest moments as seen through the eyes of Mexican actors, directors and filmbuffs.

$35

Artes de Mexico - Numero 31

El Viajero Europeo del Siglo XIX ( The Nineteenth Century European Traveler)

Mexico, D.F. 1996.

Bilingual Edition (Spanish with English translation of text)

Paperback

120 pages

Condition: New

$35

ARTES DE MEXICO - Numero 68

BIBLIOTECA PALAFOXIANA (Palafox Library)

Mexico, D.F. 2003.

Bilingual Edition (Spanish with English translation of text)

Paperback

96 pages

Condition: New

As happened with the legendary library of Alexandria, the founders and trustees after the treasure Palafoxiana searched the knowledge of the universe in space. The approximately 42,000 volumes of this site in Puebla testify to this concern.

$35

ARTES DE MEXICO - Numero 69

Elogio del Cuerpo Mesoamericano (In Praise of the Mesoamerican Body)

Mexico, D.F. 2004.

Bilingual Edition (Spanish with English translation of text)

Paperback

96 pages

Condition: New

The way each society represents the human body tells us some unexpected things about its world view. Woven into this vision of the body are discourses on medicine and morality, eroticism and death. What enigmas are contained in Mesoamerican works alluding to the body?

$35

ARTES DE MEXICO - Numero 71

Serpientes del Arte Contemporáneo (Snakes in Contemporary Art)

Mexico, D.F. 2004.

Bilingual Edition (Spanish with English translation of text)

Paperback

92 pages

Condition: New

We continue our exploration of a fascinating and frightening creature: the snake. This issue is an invitation to use contemporary art as a means of penetrating that dark space in the human soul where a strange venomous serpent lurks.

$35

ARTES DE MEXICO - Numero 72

El Arte del Hierro Fundido (The Art of Cast Iron)

Mexico, D.F. 2006.

Bilingual Edition (Spanish with English translation of text)

Paperback

88 pages

Condition: New

The castiron bandstands, benches and lampposts found in most Mexican parks and squares are what lend these public spaces their unique personality. They are synonymous with tradition, urban beauti-fication and city life. How did they come to form such an indispensable part of the country's aesthetic?

$35

ARTES DE MEXICO - Numero 74

Gustavo Pérez: Ceramica contemporanea (Gustavo Pérez: Contemporary Ceramics)

Mexico, D.F. 2006.

Bilingual Edition (Spanish with English translation of text)

Paperback

94 pages

Condition: New

Gustavo Perez is one of Mexico's leading contemporary ceramicists. The freedom with which this artist works clay has been an inspiration to critics and writers seeking to explore the inner world of a man who gave his soul to the material.

$35

ARTES DE MEXICO - Numero 76

Arte y Espiritualidad Jesuitas II: contemplación para alcanzar amor (Jesuit Art and Spirituality II)

Mexico, D.F. 2006.

Bilingual Edition (Spanish with English translation of text)

Paperback

120 pages

Condition: New

$35

Familia Lorenzo

Elena Poniatowska
Secretaria de Cultura, Direccion General de Publicaciones. Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico, 2016.
First edition. New copy. 62 pages.

SOLD OUT

Artists Included:

Lucas Lorenzo

Familia Lorenzo - Lucas Lorenzo & Family

$35

Artes de Mexico - Numero 9

Espacios en el Arte Mexicano (Spaces in Mexican Art)

Mexico, D.F. 1999.

Bilingual Edition (Spanish with English translation of text)

Paperback

108 pages

Condition: New

Our soul is a dwelling, wrote Gaston Bachelard. And when we recall its rooms, we learn to dwell within ourselves. Therefore, by examining the mystery of our aesthetic spaces, we will be better able to live with what we are. This issue pays homage to the creative potential that exists in Mexican spaces of art.

$35

Tigers, Devils and the Dance of Life: Masks of Mexico

Barbara Mauldin
with Field Photography by Ruth D. Lechuga
Museum of New Mexico Press, Santa Fe, 1999
Paper. 118 pages

$29.95 (paperback)

Preguntas de Ocotlan

Alberto Blanco, with illustrations by Rodolfo Morales

Published by the Consejo Nacional Para la Cultura y Las Artes, Mexico, 2000

52 pages (hardcover). Text in Spanish.

Artists Included:

Rodolfo Morales

$29

Oaxaca Celebration: Family, Food, and Fiestas in Teotitlan

Mary Jane Gagnier de Mendoza
With photographs by Ariel Mendoza and Mary Jane Gagnier de Mendoza
Museum of New Mexico Press, Santa Fe, 2005
160 pages

$28.50 (Paper)

Oaxacan Woodcarvings: The Magic in the Trees

Shepard Barbash
Photography by Vicki Ragan
Chronicle, San Francisco 1993
109 pages

Artists Included:

Armando and Moises Jimenez

$18.95 (paperback)

ABRACADABRA Mexican Toys

Mauricio Martinez
Text by Gutierre Aceves, Raul Aceves, Ruben Paez
Photography by Rigoberto Moreno, José Martinez Vera, Carlos Diaz Corona
Amaroma Ediciones, Guadalajara, Mexico
Museum of New Mexico Press, Santa Fe, 2002
120 pages

Artists Included:

Mexican Folk Artists

Mexican Recycling Artists

$16.50

Uncle Snake

Children's book illustrated by one of our Oaxacan artists.
Text by Matthew Gollub
Illustrated by Leovigildo Martinez Torres,
Published by Tambourine Books
New York, 1996

Artists Included:

Leovigildo Martinez Torres

$16.00 hardcover

Angel's Kite / La Estrella de Angel

Award-winning children's book based on Morales' own childhood in the village of Ocotlan
Text by Alberto Blanco
Illustrated by Rodolfo Morales,
Published by the Children's Book Press
San Francisco, 1994

Artists Included:

Rodolfo Morales

$ 7.95

Grandes Maestros del Arte Wixárika

Diana Negrin da Silva
with Essays by Juan Negrin, Guillermo de la Peña, Ingrid Arriaga and Patricia Diaz Romo.
Published by Secretaria de Cultura, Gobierno del Estado de Jalisco, Guadalajara. 2019.
340 pages
We do not stock this book but recommend that you contact shop.wixarika.org to order it.

Artists Included:

José Benitez Sanchez

Huichol Artists, various

Guadalupe Gonzalez Rios

Nicolás de Jesús: A Mexican Artist for Global Justice

Edited by Patrice Giasson, with essays by Felipe Ehrenberg, Patrice Giasson, Aline Hémond, Julian Kremer, Caroline Perrée, Pablo Piccato.
Neuberger Museum of Art
Purchase College, SUNY
Published by Hirmer Verlag, Munich, Germany
2022
176 pages

Not available from Indigo Arts. Recommend you order from the publisher online.

Artists Included:

Nicolas de Jesus