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New Territories: Laboratories for Design, Craft and Art in Latin America

New Territories: Laboratories for Design, Craft and Art in Latin America

$50.00 at Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago.

New Territories examines creative practices in today's globalized world, in which disciplines overlap more than ever before. Looking in particular at countries such as Brazil, Cuba, Panama, Columbia, Mexico, El Salvador, Puerto Rico, Venezuela and Chile, this volume discusses the ways in which craft, art and design have transcended their former identities. Today, artists in these fields may address issues of not only commodification and mass production, but also social concerns of urbanization, displacement…