Celia Álvarez Muñoz: Breaking the Binding

"Celia Álvarez Mñuoz: Enlightenment" features her Enlightenment series of artists' books and installations, with an essay by Isabel Casso, Assistant Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego.

Summary

Álvarez Muñoz’s photo/text works and installations reflect on the complexities of childhood on a bicultural and bilingual border
This is the first major publication on the seminal Texas-based Latinx artist Celia Álvarez Muñoz (born 1937). Accompanying her first museum career retrospective, it surveys her decades of colorful photo and text-based artworks, book projects, large-scale installations, public works and associated unpublished archival materials. Color images and scholarly texts illuminate Álvarez Muñoz’s themes—childhood learning and perception, bicultural and bilingual experience, slips of mind and tongue—and her often playful, first-person approach using conceptual tools. Breaking the Binding provides the definitive volume on an influential yet understudied artist. Alongside images, the book features a conversation between Álvarez Muñoz and longtime interlocutor and friend Roberto Tejada, as well as essays by exhibition cocurators Kate Green and Isabel Casso, and Josh Franco, Head of Collecting at the Smithsonian Archives of American Art.

Product details

• Assisted by: Celia Alvarez Munoz (Photographer), Celia Alvarez Munoz (Photographs)
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.11.2023
• EAN: 9781955161343
• ISBN: 978-1-955161-34-3
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; USA, ART / Individual Artists / General, PHOTOGRAPHY / Individual Photographers / Monographs, ART / Women Artists, History of art / art & design styles, History of Art, Individual photographers, United States of America, USA, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Gender studies: women, Individual artists, art monographs, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies, Gender studies: women and girls, Relating to Latin / Hispanic American people, Hispanic & Latino Studies, ART / American / Hispanic & Latino