ReVisin

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ReVisin: A New Look at Art in the Americas considers what makes the Americas the Americas. With essays by leading scholars of Latin American art history, the publication explores the ways in which the past continues to exert an influence on communities throughout the region. Artists such as Alexander Apstol, Juan Enrique Bedoya, Johanna Calle, Ronny Quevedo, Sandy Rodrguez, Eduardo Sarabia, Clarissa Tossin,and Cecilia Vicua draw on centuries of imagery from both before and after the Conquest to grapple with questions of identity, exploitation of natural resources, and displacement. The essays in this catalog provide a framework for understanding the region's nuanced history of creation, destruction, and renewal.

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"As its title suggests,ReVisin: Art in the Americasseeks to revise traditional approaches to the visual history of the Americas and provide a distinct perspective. . . . As curators Victoria Lyall and Jorge Rivas Prez state in the exhibitions catalog, rather than seeking to present a 'comprehensive history of the arts of ancient and Latin America,' their achronological, bilingual exhibition focuses on how artists today critically mobilize the pre-Hispanic and colonial pasts in their work." * caa reviews *

Author Bio

Victoria I. Lyall is the curator of Precolumbian art at the Denver Art Museum. Her most recent publication is Murals of the Americas: Papers from the 2017 Mayer Center Symposium at the Denver Art Museum. Jorge F. Rivas Prez is an art historian architect and designer. He is also the curator of Spanish colonial art at the Denver Art Museum, and his most recent exhibition is Power and Piety: Spanish Colonial Art from the Cisneros Collection.