First published in 1977, Toward a People's Art remains a classic study of the community-based mural movement that produced hundreds of large-scale wall paintings in the United States and Canada. The authors provide a comprehensive discussion of the muralists, the murals' effects on the community, and the funding these works received.

Those interested in art and social change will welcome this new edition, which represents an ongoing faith in the ideal of participatory democracy as the best way to confront the nation's social problems and in the potential of activist art to have long-term social impact. The introduction describes the era-the late 1960s-and a new afterword looks at the 1980s and 1990s and the continuing commitment to the community-engaged process of making public art.

Mapas, comentario bibliogáfico, índice analítico, obra artística por Rini Templeton

REVIEW OF SPANISH LANGUAGE EDITION:

Clarín Domingo 24 de marzo de 2002

LIBROS La media luz de las relaciones carnales

NESTOR KOHAN.

Simón Bolívar ya lo había profetizado: "Los Estados Unidos parecen destinados por la Providencia para plagar América de miserias en nombre de la libertad". Desde entonces hasta hoy las relaciones de Estados Unidos con América latina han sido cualquier cosa menos apacibles.

James D.Cockcroft, profesor de LASA (Latin American Studies Association, la organización profesional de latinoamericanistas de Estados Unidos), se propone en América latina y Estados Unidos. Historia y política país (siglo XXI) desenredar, por país, la relación siempre tormentosa entre los dos subcontinentes.