Helen Escobedo: Footsteps in the Sand
by Graciela Schmilchuk
Helen Escobedo’s combination of international artistic accomplishments, sensitivity to contexts of time, place, and the creativity of people, are exemplary at many levels. Her perspectives on life and art at the cusp of a new century affirms the importance of artistry in the spaces we see, create, inhabit, and too often take for granted. She communicates the intimate connections between art, the natural and human-made environment, history and the life of people as individuals and in communities.
http://www.helen-escobedo.com/
Available at the The Mexican Cultural Institute of New York, 212-217-6478
Paso del Nortec, This is Tijuana!
by José Manuel Valenzuela
El Paso de Nortec (The Nortec Pass) is a 240-page book-collage written by José Manuel Valenzuela describing the history of the Tijuana-based music movement known as Nortec - defining it as a musical genre, as a graphic and visual style, and as the manifestation of a particular culture. In the book, images accompany sounds to create an integral concept. The texts tracing the movement’s history and development appear alongside a wide selection of images including photographs (many of which are digitally manipulated), reproduction of flyers and posters, scenes from raves, album covers which are enriched by the testimonies of the movement’s artists and opinions on it from the international community.
Available at Barnes and Noble
