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OverviewFrom his provincial origins in the small northern Mexico town of Múzquiz, Coahuila, to his meteoric rise in Manhattan's East Village art scene, to having achieved international standing at the time of his early death at forty-seven, Julio Galán was radically transgressive. The artist extended contemporary Mexican painting beyond the cultural criticism of Neo-Mexicanism (neomexicanismo), redefining Mexican identity as gender-expansive in his art. Galán combined gender-fluid imagery, his performative persona, queer self-representation, and cross-cultural visual and textual references to create large-scale, layered, dialogical visual puzzles. An artist ahead of his time, Galán's content and imagery is relevant to contemporary LGBTQ+ social movements. Replete with full-color reproductions of Galán's artwork and photographic material, Teresa Eckmann's book serves as the first English-language monograph on the artist's life and work. Anyone interested in art in Mexico and Latin America will find this book an indispensable addition to their library, and it will be a core book on the study of this artist for decades to come. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Teresa EckmannPublisher: University of New Mexico Press Imprint: University of New Mexico Press ISBN: 9780826366023ISBN 10: 0826366023 Pages: 296 Publication Date: 31 May 2024 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Forthcoming Availability: Not yet available This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon its release. Table of ContentsReviews"""This book will become an indispensable touchstone for anyone studying Julio Galán.""--Raphael Rubinstein, author of Polychrome Profusion: Selected Art Criticism 1990-2002" "This book will become an indispensable touchstone for anyone studying Julio Galán."" —Raphael Rubinstein, author of Polychrome Profusion: Selected Art Criticism 1990-2002" Author InformationTeresa Eckmann is an associate professor of contemporary Latin American art in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Texas at San Antonio. She is also the author of Neo-Mexicanism: Mexican Figurative Painting and Patronage in the 1980s (UNM Press). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |