"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read." — Groucho Marx Un Gorrión en la Guerra de las Fieras Antoniorrobles (1895 - 1983) México: Secretario de Educación Pública, 1942 PQ6633 O2 S62 1942 Established in 1919, Children’s Book Week is...
"Some of the great images of world art began as prints, perhaps using only a block of wood and a carving tool." -- Nancy Berkoff, "Art of Print At Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach" Rare Books contributed images from five of its books...
When grief shall rend thy heart, seek thine own soul; Shut out life's din, and find that sacred goal. Queen Moo’s Talisman: The Fall of the Maya Empire Alice Dixon Le Plongeon (1851-1910) New York: Peter Eckler, Publisher, 1902 First edition Alice Dixon Le Plongeon was an English photographer, amateur archaeologist,...
Join performance artist Guillermo Gómez-Peña with cameos by Balitronica Gómez for a showcase of his latest solo work, The Most (un) Documented Mexican Artist, a unique perspective on the immediate future of the Americas. With his performance troupe La Pocha Nostra, Gómez-Peña offers critical and humorous commentary about the art...
“But I must gather knots of flowers and buds, and garlands gay; For I’m to be Queen o’ the May, mother, I’m to be Queen o’ the May.” – Alfred Lord Tennyson, “The May Queen”...
“The Mexican paintings, a very small number of which has reached our times, excite a double interest, both from the light they throw on the mythology and history of the first inhabitants of America, and the apparent connexion with the hieroglyphical writing of certain nations...
These commentaries are excerpts from an assigned project for Humanities4900/6900, “Indigenous Peoples: Social and Cultural Perspectives,” taught by Isabel Dulfano, Spring semester 2016. Students studied demographics, Mayan epigraphy, Incan kipu, archaeology, linguistics and other topics as an interdisciplinary approach to critically expanding their understanding of...
