Cultural Bodies

"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...