Wolf Tracks: Popular Art and Re-Africanization in Twentieth-Century Panama

by Peter A. Szok

Popular art is a masculine and working-class genre, associated with Panama's black population. Its practitioners are self-taught, commercial painters, whose high-toned designs, vibrant portraits, and landscapes appear in cantinas, barbershops, and restaurants. The red devil buses are popular art's most visible manifestation. The old school buses are imported from the United States and provide public transportation in Col n and Panama City. Their owners...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1628461721
• ISBN13: 9781628461725
• Release Date: September 2014
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"