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Freud's Mexico
Freud's Mexican disciples, Mexican books, Mexican antiquities, and Mexican dreams. Freud's Mexico is a completely unexpected contribution to Freud studies. Here, Rubén Gallo reveals Freud's previously undisclosed connections to a culture and a psychoanalytic tradition not often associated with him. This book bears detailed testimony to Freud's relationship to a country he never set foot in, but inhabited imaginatively on many levels. In the Mexico of the 1920s and 1930s, Freud made an impact not only among psychiatrists but also in literary, artistic, and political circles. Gallo writes about a “motley crew” of Freud's readers who devised some of the most original, elaborate, and influe...
Constructing Identity in Contemporary Architecture
The global spread of uniform modes of production and cultural values has been accompanied by a dissemination of stereotypes of "modern" architecture styles almost everywhere around the globe. Paradoxically, the reverse process has also emerged: In some countries, the elites feel the necessity to counterbalance the "loss of identity" and defend their own cultures against the "intruding" forces of globalization. What started as a defensive notion has developed into a more progressive attempt to re-create what has allegedly been lost. This trend is being strongly expressed in discourses about architecture in countries of the South. Who are the actors feeling compelled to "construct" new identities? How are these new identities in architecture created in various parts of the world? And, which are the ingredients borrowed from various historical and ethnic traditions and other sources? These and other questions are discussed in five case studies from different parts of the world, written by renowned scholars from Brazil, Mexico, Egypt, India and Singapore.
Contemporary Mexican Design and Architecture
Representative homes built by 12 architects working in Mexico are profiled with text and numerous color photographs. Modernism as well as the natural and human environment of Mexico influences all the architects profiled. Categorized under the headings colorists, personal visions, and functionalists, the profilees include Jorge Robles, Agustin, Hernandez, Abraham Zambludovksy. Isaac Broid, Carlos Santos Maldonado, and J.B. Johnson. Also included is an introductory chapter that discusses the history of Mexican design from the Aztecs to the Modernists. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Guide to the Literature of Art History 2
"This bibliography supplements the greatest of modern art bibliographies, Etta Arntzen and Robert Rainwater's Guide to the literature of art history (ALA, 1980)"--Preface.
Presiciones sobre arquitectura religiosa contemporanea
El lector tiene en sus manos una pequen~a coleccio ́n de textos acade ́micos que intentan combinar el rigor cienti ́fico con el intere ́s de un arti ́culo de divulgacio ́n. Todos ellos han sido publicados recientemente en journals o en actas de congresos especializados, o al menos, esta ́n en proceso de edicio ́n. Su hilo conductor es la arquitectura religiosa contempora ́nea. La palabra "Precisiones" que encabeza el ti ́tulo tiene un evidente sabor corbusieriano, pero tambie ́n latinoamericano. Si los textos de la primera mitad del libro giran en torno a diversos aspectos de la obra de Jeanneret —la dimensio ́n cosmolo ́gica de la arquitectura, su fascinacio ́n por el oculti...
Gabriel Chávez de la Mora
Monographic edition on the life and works of architect and Benedictine friar Chavez de la Mora (b. Mexico 1929) whose religious life is closely related to his architectural projects (convents, chapels, churches and monasteries) and artistic designs (Altar decorations, liturgical vessels and crucifixes). The well recognized artist friar has developed a unique style in contemporary Mexican religious art and architecture.
Paisajes urbanos
This is an invitation to contemplate international urban culture and public architecture from both historical and contemporary standpoints. This work recovers the forgotten memory of the destruction of war and natural catastrophes, together with city fictions and utopias. Analyses centered on the physical urban presence are complemented by introspective visions of the urban image in cinema and comics.
