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Visual arts
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Outsider Art, psyc…
‘Outsider Art’ is one of the terms used to refer to work made by self-taught artists in general, and inpatients (or clients, as preferred by...
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Brief Encounters i…
July 1865. A single tea clipper, The Mimosa, set sail from Liverpool to the west coast of Argentina carrying with it the hopes of 153 pioneers from Wale...
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Bodies on borders:…
In 1992, two native Guatinaui Amerindians toured across museums in the United States. The male and female specimens from this little-known island off th...
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Santiago Roncaglio…
Santiago Roncagliolo was born in Lima, and his family temporarily left Peru for political reasons in 1977. His novel Purdor (2005) was made into a film ...
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Marcelo Figueras
MARCELO FIGUERAS, born in Buenos Aires in 1962, is a writer and screenwriter. He currently lives in Barcelona. His novel Kamchatka (Atlantic Books, 2010...
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Carla Guelfenbein
CARLA GUELFENBEIN was born in Santiago, Chile, and lived in England for 11 years, where she took degrees at the University of Essex and Central St Marti...
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Open-ended Realiti…
The genealogies of both cinema and ethnography display some curious overlaps with both disciplines often involved in a rac...
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Cultural Heritage:…
It is not enough to produce culture; modern society requires that the process should be recorded. People have always been ...
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Tupi or not to be
At least ever since Edward Said wrote Orientalism (1978), it has come to be commonly accepted that texts can create knowle...
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Uruguayan Cinema i…
A study of cinema in Uruguay cannot be realistically undertaken without considering the country’s geographical and socio-political position, which...
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A Tree and a Carib…
Seeing, Hearing and the Value of Caribbean Film Festivals If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? This fa...
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ZONA SUR and cinem…
Cinema d’auteur originated in the 1950s as a means of artistic cinematic expression that placed the emphasis less on telling an objective dramatic...
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