Point of Contact The Americas Baroque

This special thematic issue of Point of Contact, The Americas Baroque, explores baroque and neo-baroque aesthetics across Latin American art, literature, cinema, and visual culture. Bringing together essays, creative texts, collaborative works, drawings, and photography, the volume examines the baroque as a dynamic mode of excess, hybridity, and emotional intensity within the cultural histories of the Americas.

The issue features critical and creative contributions by Peter Wollen, Elena Poniatowska, Severo Sarduy, Rolando Hinojosa-Smith, Saúl Yurkievich, Nam June Paik, and others, alongside collaborative works by Pedro Cuperman and Nancy Graves, Marta Chilindron and Eduardo Costa, and Rimma Gerlovina and Valeriy Gerlovin. Visual material includes drawings by William Wegman and photography by Joseph Kugielsky, with cover artwork by Nam June Paik and back cover artwork by Izhar Patkin.

The digital version of this Point of Contact edition is accessible here, or in print, available for purchase through Punto Shop.