Thirteen ways of looking at Latino art / Ilan Stavans and Jorge J. E. Gracia.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The labyrinth of history : Einar and Jamex de la Torre, La reconquista -- The impostor's mask : Maria Brito, Conversation -- On desecration : Andres Serrano, Piss Christ -- The death game : Francisco Oller, El velorio -- A girl's innocence : Mariana Yampolsky, Elva -- The thereafter : Carmen Lomas Garza, Heaven and hell -- The street as art : Bear Tck, Chicano graffiti -- Desperate escape : Jose Bedia, Siguiendo su instinto -- The horrors of war : Luis Cruz Azaceta, Slaughter -- The ambiguity of madness : Martin Ramirez, Untitled (train and tunnel) -- I laugh in your race! : Jean-Michel Basquiat, Untitled (skull) -- American America : Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, Above all things -- Twisted tongue : Adal, La Spanglish sandwich bodega bag.