Americas

Fernando Bryce

ISBN 10: 843431200X / ISBN 13: 9788434312005

Published by Ediciones Poligrafa, ES, 2009

About this Item

This title brings together the acclaimed "Americas" series from Fernando Bryce, one of the most important South American artists working toady. With a unique visual style that uses drawing as a tool to address the tragic banality of historical images, documents, and texts, Fernando Bryce (b. 1965) is one of the most important South American artists working today. Armed with only pen and ink, Bryce examines how visual and written media create and convey a perception of a country, a people, or an historical event through reproducing - by hand - entire archives of material, from declassified government documents to tourist and holiday brochures. By physically reproducing these documents, Bryce uses art to question the credibility of the media and unlock the arbitrary nature and power of his sources. This magnificently illustrated volume brings together Bryce's acclaimed series "Americas", in which he investigates the history of Pan-American relations during the 1950s and 1960s.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Americas
• Publisher: Ediciones Poligrafa, ES
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 843431200X
• ISBN 13: 9788434312005
• Binding: Hardback
• Condition: New

About this title

Synopsis

Peruvian artist Fernando Bryce reclaims documents--photographs, newspaper clippings, advertisements, publicity materials, maps, pamphlets, bureaucratic reports and popular propaganda--by redrawing them manually. This volume presents a facsimile of his Américas series, including "South of the Border" from the MoMA collection--in a signed, numbered edition of 500 copies.