
Pedro Reyes
Ad Usum / To Be Used
Jose Luis Falconi(Editor)
Harvard University, The David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (Publisher)
Published on 31. December 2016
Book
Hardback
520 pages
978-0-674-02515-8 (ISBN)
Description
For more than a decade the Mexico City-based artist, architect, and cultural agent Pedro Reyes has been turning existing social problems into opportunities for effecting tangible change through collective imagination. By breaking open failed models and retooling them with space to project alternatives, Reyes's art enables productive diversions of otherwise destructive forces. Ad Usum: To Be Used is the second volume in the series Focus on Latin American Art and Agency, which is dedicated to contemporary cultural agents, a term that is perhaps best understood through the words of Reyes himself: "changing our individual habits has no degree of effectiveness" as "progress is only significant if you start to multiply by 10, by 100, by 1,000." Rather than merely illustrate his work, this collection of images, interviews, and critical essays is intended as an apparatus for multiplying the possibilities when art becomes a resource for the common good.
This full-color illustrated survey of Reyes's projects includes critical essays by Jose Luis Falconi, Robin Greeley, Johan Hartle, Adam Kleinman, and Doris Sommer, as well as interviews between the artist and such seminal thinkers as Lauren Berlant, Michael Hardt, Alejandro Jodorowsky, and Antanas Mockus.
This full-color illustrated survey of Reyes's projects includes critical essays by Jose Luis Falconi, Robin Greeley, Johan Hartle, Adam Kleinman, and Doris Sommer, as well as interviews between the artist and such seminal thinkers as Lauren Berlant, Michael Hardt, Alejandro Jodorowsky, and Antanas Mockus.
Reviews / Votes
A handsome career-long survey accompanied by scholarly responses to the work. -- Jeremy D. Goodwin * Boston Globe *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
308 color photographs, 3 color illustrations, 21 halftones, 24 line illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 248 mm
Width: 171 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-674-02515-8 (9780674025158)
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Person
Jose Luis Falconi is Lecturer of Latin American Art and Architecture in the Department of History of Art and Architecture at Brandeis University.