"The Frame as Ritual Object" is a monographic book theorizing and discussing the visual art of artist from Venezuela, Gladys Pirela, the monography offers an exhaustive approach to language in Gladys Art developing hermeneutic, interpretation, phenomenology, semiology and cultural theory around discussing her found objects, the frame as ritual object, as well as her caligrames, paintings and murals in external landscaples of the city

The Biography of the Materials: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Ernesto León" By Abdel Hernández San Juan is monographic book on the visual art of venezuelan artist Ernesto León developing interdisciplinary interpretation, readings and analysis in between philosophy, semiotic theory and cultural theory anthropologically, discussing around language in León. and focussing from philosophy and semiotic theory in the theorization of the origin of language, in line with Jacques Derrida questions on the origin of language on the Ginebra Linguistic Circle, (Condillac and Rousseu), Hernández San Juan discuss from the aethetics of forms and signs who Ernesto exhibit "The Clues of Survival" might be regarded to the origin of language, from rupestre and pictographic modes of writings non verbal scriptures, non verbal language of gestures, to the childreen language, and the biography of materials, interpreting León exhibit anthropologically and archaeologically, while monography extend it to an interpretation and analysis of a resume of main series of Ernesto Art since the mid time to currently between Venezuela and Texas. Based in several visits as guest to Ernesto Studio both in Caracas and Houston as well as a sustained collaboration between the writer and the artist, the monographic book is mostly inspired from the recent exhibit of Ernesto León "Clues of Survival" at the National Art Gallery of Caracas, since Hernández shared the experience with Zuleiva Vivas and Ernesto León, and National Art Gallery specialists such as Luis Chacin, writing the essay of the catalogue and discussing two lectures within the program Aphril/July 2025 leer todo...

Thinking Science: New Phenomenological Avenues between Philosophy and Sociology, is a major book of hard science of Abdel Hernández San Juan in which the thinker theoretize, concibe and develops a rich theoretical idea about the science of logic discussing the phenomenology and the dialectique of concept, objet and subject at the very center of phenomenology counterpointing critically Kant and Hegel as well as Derrida, and proposing new paths to explore a phenomenological conjuntion between abstract classical philosophy and simbolic interaccionism in microsociology which helps to enteil original and innovative posibilities to exchange abstract thinking and concept development with empirical research such as the indeed depper relation between the self and the simbols, the sociology of common sense at the very crucial moment of cultural theory and developments on philosophical anthropology needed to reconsider alternatives to representation in anthropology, the ways of evocation, a pivotal and original book to the critique of representation impetus in posmodern social sciences leer todo...

The World Correlate: Interpretant and Structure in Posmodern Cultural Theory is a major, pivotal theoretical and metatheoretical books of hard science conceibed, composed and written by Abdel Hernández San Juan, thinking in a deeper, innovative and original phenomenological and hermeneutic theory to discuss the relation between the idea of world and the idea of text, both in a philosophical sense as well as in a hermeneutical sense which turn conclusión in deeper philosophy on phenomenological through linguistic and semiological issues toward the rethinking of research method in cultural theory in a posmodern sense, a major and important book opening new paths on how to consider textual and linguistic theoretical issues within cultural anthropology considered from the perspective of the exégesis of cultures as text, visual and material culture as well as senses and meanings, in a posmodern sense, the book innovate the whole tradition on this remarks leer todo...

Plexus of Interstitiality is a book of interviews to Abdel Hernández San Juan made by analytical philosopher Alberto Méndez Suarez, through the book Hernández answers a series of major questions about the starting points, developments and evolution of his theoretical urban and rural sociology as well as on his cultural anthropology in modalities of fieldwork focussing metatheoreticial and metaempirical issues of pivotal consideration about topics such as estructuralism, texts and contexts, anthropology seen from the philosophy of science and philosophical deeper issues as well as on his research projects and curatorial practices in Havana, Caracas and Houston, Texas, an important book to understand Hernández cronological evolution regarding his theories leer todo...

Evocation: A Philosophical Dialogues, is a major book developed between Abdel Hernández San Juan and Stephen A Tyler as a philosophical dialogue around the concept of evocation, the exchange of paper continuated to a new deeper level of theoretical development a tradition of analysis on evocation started by Stephen A Tyler, quoted by Clifford Geertz at his essay "Being Here" at the Anthropology as author about if evocation might or not offer alternatives to the contemporary situation of anthropology with representation in a contemporary world. The book developed as an exchange of papers/letters between both very abstract thinkers from the department of anthropology at Rice University, renew and relight to completly new paths the discusión on evocation by deeperly reconsidering it philosophically and was the basis as a famous starting point dialogue to a continuated series of theoretical dialogue later developed by Abdel and Stephen first since 1998 at Rice Anthropology and later through correspondence until 2014 leer todo...

Rumbos: Explorations in Cultural Anthropology, is a major hard science book in the philosophy of science thinking, theoring and discussing metatheoretical and metaempirical issues pivotals in between theoretical linguistic, theoretical semiology, philosophical issues in phenomenology, hermeneutic and theoretical sociology, essentials to the rethinking of new paths and ways in cultural anthropology, developed in dialogue by Abdel Hernández San Juan and Alberto Méndez Suarez, the book originally innovate the field.

"Counterpoting: Philosophical Dialogues" is a major book of hard science through the philosophy of science, developing deep issues about pivotal topics of classical and contemporary theory, the phenomenological formation of the life word versus the textual exégesis in understanding the simbols, signs, material and visual expression of culture textuality, and intertextuality, the relation between inside and outside language seen of the deeper side of philosophy to empirical issues as it appear in empirical research of culture, deeper semiological and linguistic theory issues to be considered under empirical research of sociology and anthropology, the book innovates how semiotic theory was previouslly considered under cultural anthropology proposing and developing new paths, Jacques Derrida, Charles Sanders Peirce, Husserl, Hegel, Saussure, Structuralism and Posestructuralism issues are dicussed in a way which redefines the relation between the phenomenological and hermeneutic traditión and the analyticla philosophy one tradition in wester thought. Developed as a cointerpoint of philosophical dialogues between Abdel Hernández San Juan and Alberto Méndez Suarez, the book explore at the same time new ways of producing knowledge. leer todo...

"Cultural Bodies: Art Criticism as Anthrology of Art" is a book of Abdel Hernández San juan that fully innovates and originally renew both the field of contemporary art criticism and the field of anthropology of art, by developing new paths of linguistic and semiological analysis, interpretation and readings of contemporary art philosophizing forms and hermeneutically and semantically theorizing culture in discussing the art and exhibits of a variety of complex and fascinating artists works presented in Houston, Texas and the United States from the mid nineties, the book is developed as a collection of essays writing by the author from the mid nineties in Houston about contemporary art in the United States including both artists borns in the United States such as María Cristina Jadick, Virgil Grotfeld or Terrell James, between others, as well as artists who multiculturally pertain as migrant subjevities to Texas Culture, as the author of the book as well, and or presented their exhibits internationally as visitors during a period. The book start with a pioner essay of Abdel Hernández San Juan written in Houston 1998 published as catalogue of an exhibit of Maria Cristína Jadick at Sicardy Sanders which was based in a workshop developed by Abdel with Cristina focussing semiotic theory and cultural theory anthropologically and pionered betwen another of the author essays the new field of Art and Anthropology several years before a later asumption of the concept of Cultural bodies born from Hernández and jadick workshop in the field of anthropology leer todo...

This book focuses on developing an interdisciplinary approach between the Semiotics of Art and Cultural Anthropology in seven exhibitions curated and presented at Rice University in Houston, Texas by the author of the book Abdel Hernández San Juan and his co-curator of the exhibitions discussed Surpik Angelini, the curatorship in question was developed as a result of an experimental art and anthropology workshop led by the author of the book in Caracas in 1996 aimed at developing new interdisciplinary forms of art criticism and theory based on the Art/anthropology relationship, exploring new avenues. This book is the second to explore this subject after An Expedition to the Threshold written by the same author in 1997 leer todo...

Rethinking Intertextuality: Research Method in the Sociology of Culture is a book that retheorize the concept of intertextuality through issues of theoretical microsociology considered from the perspective of phenomenology and hermeneutic in interpretative, simbolic interactionist sociology, ethnometodology, opeing new paths between the semiological theory of texts, intertextuality and field research discussing major questions such as the relation between thought, being and writings, intertextuality as an issue to focuss to the study of the relation between restauration and conservation of material and visual culture patrimonies seen as a text and the texts of interactions between memory, communities and tourism, the pivotal play of meaning construction and sense conducting the research method interaction in understanding urban collectors, transculturation as double issue in between United States and México evolving cultural identity sensibilities and identity formations on both sides specifically interpreting it by discussing modalities of transcultural ethnography practiced in between both sides, the issue of the observer observed and an analysis on posmodernism leer todo...

"Another Decollages" is a monographic book theorizing and discussing lenguage and culture, sense and meaning, form and logic, in the complex work of venezuelan artist stablished in england, London, Cipriano Martínez, the book discuss from Cipriano recent exhibit of painting "Pentimentos" exhibited at Beatríz Gill Gallery november 7 2024, to earlier paintings and installations of the artist one of the main and more significant individualities of his generation from the mid nineties in Venezuela and internationally

"Non siting the site" is a monography book that theorize and discuss the short Film "A Summer Home"of United States film maker and photographer Brian Deutzman, the book discuss concepts such as site through analysing Deuztman Film as well as proposes the objectification of concepts such as the relation between cinema and gesture, the degree zero of the screen, as well as the enviromental content of the voice and sound through the film, developing an original and innovative conjuntion between semiotic theory of art, film theory and cultural theory leer todo...

Reinscribing Inscription is a monography book on israel/venezuelan artist Lihie Talmor, the book collect several essays by Abdel Hernández San Juan written through the time, from the mid nineties to currently affording different moments of the evolution of the work of Talmor, focussing language, semiologically discussing the intrincate and complex ways in which Talmor art conjuntion elements of minimalism, installation, sculpture, print making, photo print making, artist book, and mix techniques, the book discuss Talmor around the sense and meanings of the concept of subjectivity, from urban subjectivity to memory, focussing how Lihie art evolves reinscriptions of the inscriptural evolved in print making itself, the book mix semiology with cultural theory to approach both form and culture within Lihie art, which is both poetic and phychoanalitic leer todo...

If any cultural experience in contemporary art is susceptible to anthropological analysis, it is Cuban art. Most Cuban artists who emerged since the 1980s have explored quests that require anthropology for their understanding. This involves the need for a semiotic analysis of signs, clues, symbols, metonymies, synecdoches, and other figures of speech. In this study, we understand that, both in terms of visual codes and in terms of the reader's heritage, a mere semiotic study, although necessary, is not sufficient. A semiotic and cultural anthropological analysis is required. Many of the visual explorations discussed here encompass much more complex quests that cannot be objectified either through the typical iconographic study, where the high level of mass codification of signs stems from their very collective emblematic nature, or, on the other hand, through the visual image, which is explained through the use of a textual epitaph that presupposes a narrative correlation in written texts or texts collected through oral tradition, as is usually the case with anthropology, which studies medieval or archaic religions in their visual expressions.
Unlike both extremes-the first symbolized in its clearest form by pop art, whose recourse to mass signs guarantees the mass explanation of the signs' well-known content; the second symbolized by medieval painting, where the image was almost a didactic explanation of textual content that could be sought in the Bible-Cuban artists work with visual conjugations that escape both parameters. This makes an interdisciplinary critique essential, comprehensive in the sense of phenomenological sociology, and anthropological in the postmodernist sense. leer todo...

The Interpretation of Art is composed of essays written on Venezuelan art between 1992 and 2025, in Houston, Texas, and Caracas. The essays collected reflect the effort dedicated by the author to develop an art criticism that is, on the one hand, semiology of art, that is, a form of writing about art focused on the analysis, interpretation, exegesis, reading and comprehension of the language in the works, cutting the autonomy of the latter in the synchronized and timeless relationship between the work as language, the authorial consciousness that creates it, and the cultural heritage of the spectators as points of reference in that exegesis, that is, between a hermeneutics or interpretation of art through its language considered semiologically and a cultural analysis considered from the semantic perspective inferable from the way in which senses and meanings are given in the forms, morphology and iconographic, visual and spatial elements involved in exhibitions and displays of visual arts, the result is a book that is both a semiotics of art and a cultural anthropology, which also involve mobilities, travels, displacements and translations cultural translations between some scenes and others, which discusses an art developed in current languages ​​such as installation, Mixed media, process art, and exploratory modalities in new ways of painting, sculpture, and printmaking, the book covers and discusses a wide range of artistic experiences developed by Venezuelan artists both in Venezuela and internationally, contributing not only to their interpretation and understanding but also to their appreciation and appreciation. As can be seen in this collection of essays, Venezuelan art has experienced an unprecedented and unprecedented boom and proliferation from the 1990s, which underscores its status as undoubtedly one of the most relevant in the Americas today. leer todo...

The Enigmas of the Ground is a book that analyzes, proposes and discusses a novel theorization of the concept of ground in semiotics and its possibilities for the development of a semiotics of the everyday or of the experiences of elucidation, explicitation, inference, sense and significance of interpretive processes and understanding of signs, and of the relationships between signs and objects when these are diluted, disseminated and dynamically woven in the experiences of the world of everyday life or the intramundane horizon, both of the solitary individual in the universe of his soliloquy, as in intersubjective relations and communications, in symbolic, situational and social interactions, that is, in the hermeneusis and semiosis of culture. The book explores and discusses the dimensions of the ground between nature, culture, and metaculture through a wide variety of examples of decoding, meaning assignment, and inferences in the everyday world, uncovering and theorizing the sign/object relationship as a dialectic of mutual origination at the ground level, where the sign is not always in the place of the object, but rather both confer their mutual identity and find a common source.

The book extends its developments to the analysis and proposition of a theory on the preinterpreted nature of experience and the world, focusing and elucidating how, from the solitary reflexive soliloquy of the subject to intersubjective elucidations and the analysis of extrinsic interactive social situations, the interpretive and hermeneutic processes participate in the very ontology of experience and the phenomenological meaning of the world for both subjectivity and practice, through the relationship of current interpretations with preinterpretations where the heritage plays a determining role in the processes of inference and decoding. Analyzing the notion of sign outside the usual parameters of sign centrism leer todo...

"The Metonymies of the Museum: The Exegesis of Visual Culture between Semiotic Theory and Anthropology" is a book on semiotic theory and cultural anthropology of the museum that develops and proposes the concepts, categories, notions, terms, parameters, and axiological clarifications required for the development of interpretive, hermeneutic, and textual and textualized readings of visual culture phenomena, as they are expressed in the museum or in our understanding of culture according to the museum. That is, in different forms of memory and cultural heritage considered in a visual sense, from collecting, restoration, or conservation, through museography itself and the visual expressions of the museum in culture, to various modalities of visual culture associated with memory, imagination, and subjectivity in ancient cartographies, the visual as expressed in the immediacy of everyday life, or in empirical fieldwork, or in contemporary art. Beyond internal considerations of the museological and museographic universe, where concepts are restricted to issues of exhibition design, although without excluding them, since the book in fact also includes a chapter referring to a specific curatorial and museographic practice, as well as a chapter on Postmodern Work, in general, the book develops and proposes a broad and comprehensive perspective for the theory and practice of interpretation, reading, and textual elucidation of the visual, with a methodological, theoretical, and axiological scope for theory and empiricism around a wide variety of museum types, from anthropology and archaeology museums to contemporary art museums. More than a book about the museum, it is a book about how to read, interpret, and elucidate, from the theory of the text, phenomena of visual culture according to the museum leer todo...

The Semantic Elucidation: Semiotic Theory, Sociolinguistic and Semantique of Culture, is a book that theoretize and discuss new paths to the Semantique of Culture by atributing more relevance to Semiotic Theory inside Research Methodology of microsociology and cultural anthropology, after a first theoretical discussion of the issue as previously considered in anthropology, the book develops a series of empirical research chapters on Yoruba Religion, A sociolinguistic analysis of Venezuelan spanish, discussing Bilinguism, dialects and ideolects of amerindian languages, such as the wayuus, through Venezuelan Spanish, the study of visual cultural and material culture in the urban popular markets of Venezuela, and the study of Texas Folklore and culture, and cuban ideolects. A book which, as the books "Rethinking Intertextuality" and "The Methonimies of the Museum" both of the same author, renew and originally innovate from a new generation perspective the tradition of posmodern anthropology started since "Writing Culture" leer todo...