Ernesto Neto (b. Rio de Janeiro 1964) is one of the most important proponents of the Neo-Concrete movement, an art trend that started in Brazil in the 1950's. The exhibition "Ernesto's Toungue" was a retrospective comprising a selection of sculptures and installations created by artist Ernesto Neto in the last 24 years. The exhibition, described as a playground with sensorial and interactive possibilities includes drawings, sculptures, photographs and his small and monumental abstract installations that invited the visitor to smell, feel, touch, listen and use them and where the main elements and materials used in his works are the elasticity of the fabrics, the force of gravity, spices and polythene foam. The present book published on the occasion of the exhibition "gathers and organizes works and images in order to begin to envision a wider panoramic view of Ernesto's oeuvre. For this publication we selected in close dialogue with the artist the most significant exhibitions and projects since 1968, thus encompassing 25 years of production (...) we documented all of Ernesto Neto's individual exhibition catalogues, reproducing them in the book. The codifying and cataloguing drives led us to organize the book in a strictly chronological manner, privileging exhibitions over individual works"--P. [9].
Activist, labor scholar, and organizer Ernesto Galarza (1905–1984) was a leading advocate for Mexican Americans and one of the most important Mexican American scholars and activists after World War II. This volume gathers Galarza's key writings, reflecting an intellectual rigor, conceptual clarity, and a constructive concern for the working class in the face of America's growing influence over Mexico's economic system. Throughout his life, Galarza confronted and analyzed some of the most momentous social transformations of the twentieth century. Inspired by his youthful experience as a farm laborer in Sacramento, he dedicated his life to the struggle for justice for farm workers and urban working-class Latinos and helped build the first multiracial farm workers union, setting the foundation for the emergence of the United Farm Workers Union. He worked to change existing educational philosophies and curricula in schools, and his civil rights legacy includes the founding of the Mexican American Legal Defense Fund (MALDEF) and the National Council of La Raza (NCLR). In 1979, Galarza was the first U.S. Latino to be nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature, for works such as Strangers in Our Fields, Merchants of Labor, Barrio Boy, and Tragedy at Chualar.
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