Espejo Negro / Black Mirror, Hardcover by Lasch, Pedro (EDT); Aravamudan, Sri...

by Lasch, Pedro (EDT); Aravamudan, Srinivas (FRW); Gonzalez, Jennife

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Espejo Negro / Black Mirror, Hardcover by Lasch, Pedro (EDT); Aravamudan, Srinivas (FRW); Gonzalez, Jennifer A. (CON); Maillet, Arnaud (CON); Mignolo, Walter (CON), ISBN 0938989340, ISBN-13 9780938989349, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US The provocative three-part project Black Mirror/Espejo Negro by the artist Pedro Lasch encompasses a museum installation, photographs of the installation, and this bilingual book, including many of the photos, the artist&;s statement, and critical commentaries. The project began as an installation commissioned by the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University to accompany the exhibition El Greco to Velázquez: Art during the Reign of Philip III. In a gallery adjacent to the exhibit of Spanish Golden Age masterpieces, Lasch placed black rectangular mirrors on the walls, each with an image of a Spanish Renaissance painting behind it. Pre-Columbian stone and ceramic figures, chosen by Lasch from the museum&;s permanent collection of Meso-American art, stood on pedestals facing toward each mirror and away from visitors entering the room. Viewers were drawn into a meditation on colonialism and spectatorship when, on looking into the black mirrors, they saw the pre-Columbian figures, seventeenth and eighteenth-century Spanish priests and conquistadores, themselves, and the contemporary gallery environment. Th Black Mirror/Espejo Negro includes full-color reproductions of thirty-nine photographs of the installation, as well as the text that Lasch

• ISBN: 9780938989349
• Condition: Fine

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