Price: $45.00 plus shipping and sales tax, as applicable. (Credit cards only) To purchase, email Myra Pineda at mpineda@elmuseo.org with name, mailing instructions, credit card number and expiration date.   Papo Colo, Superman 51, 1977, Collection of El Museo del Barrio, NY

With the groundbreaking exhibition, Arte (no es) Vida: Actions by Artists of the Americas, 1960-2000 as a point of departure, El Museo has published a lavishly illustrated, bilingual resource book to accompany this groundbreaking exhibition. The publication provides a chronological overview, and a selection of essays by experts on the field addressing each of eleven regions in depth.

The Table of Contents includes:

Foreword and Acknowledgements,
by Julián Zugazagoitia, Director & CEO, El Museo del Barrio, New York

Arte ≠Vida: An Introduction to the Project,
by Deborah Cullen, Project Curator and Catalog Editor,
Director of Curatorial Programs, El Museo del Barrio, New York

A Chronology of Actions by Artists of the Americas, 1960-2000,
by Deborah Cullen

Points East, West, and South: Actions in New York, California,
and Puerto Rico,
by Deborah Cullen

Action Art in Argentina from 1960: The Body (Ex)posed,
by Ana Longoni, Professor, Universidad de Buenos Aires;
Research Fellow at the National Research Council of Argentina

Naked Man, Flaming Chickens: A Brief History of Brazilian Performance Art,
by Claudia Calirman, New York-based independent scholar, curator,
and author of Brazilian Art Under the Dictatorship (forthcoming, Duke University Press)

An Art of Nooks: Notes on Non-Objectual Experiences in Venezuela,
by Gabriela Rangel, Director of Visual Arts, The Americas Society, New York

Conditions, Roads, and Genealogies of Mexican Conceptualism, 1921-1993, by Maris Bustamante, Artist and Director, Centro de Artes, Humanidades y CienciasTransdisciplinarias, México D.F.

Fragmented Corpus: Actions in Lima, 1966-2000,
by Sharon Lerner Rizo-Patrón and Jorge Villacorta Chávez Professors,
Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima

Chilean Art and Action: Subverting Order, Performing Change,
by Robert Neustadt Professor, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff

A Cuban Fight Against the Demons (of Oblivion),
by Elvis Fuentes, Curator, El Museo del Barrio, New York

The Body as Instrument of Expression: Action Art in the Dominican Republic,
by Sayuri Guzmán, Artist and independent curator, Dominican Republic

Performance and Action Work in Central America 1960-2000: A Political and Aesthetic Choice,
by Virginia Pérez-Ratton, Founding Director, TEOR/éTica, San José,
Costa Rica

María Teresa Hincapié: Action, Corporeality, and the Realm of the Feminine in Colombia,
by María Iovino, Independent scholar and curator, Bogotá, Colombia

For more information on the exhibition Arte (no es) Vida: Actions by Artists of the Americas, 1960-2000, please see our Past Exhibitions section.