The Political Body

Stories on Art, Feminism, and Emancipation in Latin America Volume 6
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-0-520-34432-7
Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury

Buch, Englisch, Band 6, 304 Seiten, Cloth Over Boards, Format (B × H): 185 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 1014 g

Reihe: Studies on Latin American Art and Latinx Art

How a constellation of Latin American artists explored the body, power, and emancipation—and expanded the meanings of feminist art.
 
In The Political Body, art historian Andrea Giunta explores gender and power in the work of Latin American artists from the 1960s to the present. Questioning the social place of women and proposing alternative understandings of biological bodies, these artists eroded repressive systems and created symbolic strategies of resistance to dictatorships, racism, and marginalization.
 
Giunta presents close readings of works—paintings, films, photography, multimedia art, installations, and performances—by a myriad of artists spanning from Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay to Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico. Examining themes of visibility, subjectivity, empathy, and liberation, The Political Body tells the story of an ongoing revolution, providing an active intervention in the history of feminist art in and beyond Latin America.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Giunta, Andrea

Weitere Mitwirkende

Brodie, Jane

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 20./21. Jahrhundert
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Historische & Regionale Volkskunde
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 

Introduction 

1. Art and Feminism: Politics of Representation
2. Artists between Activisms: Clemencia Lucena and María Luisa Bemberg—A Comparative Study 
3. A Portrait in Absentia: Narcisa Hirsch and Experimental Film in Buenos Aires
4. Feminist Arts in Mexico: Manifestos, Lectures, Exhibitions, and Activisms 
5. Archives, Performance, and Resistance: Nelbia Romero and Art from Uruguay under Dictatorship
6. Feel, despite Everything: Paz Errázuriz, Photography, and Dictatorship in Chile
7. Black Art Is Brasil: Rosana Paulino, Archives, and Memory of Slavery
8. Art and Feminism in Argentina Now

GLOSSARY 
BIBLIOGRAPHY
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
INDEX

Über Autor(innen)

Andrea Giunta is Professor of Latin American and Modern and Contemporary Art at Buenos Aires University and Principal Researcher at CONICET (National Scientific and Technical Research Council). She was cofounding director of CLAVIS, the Center for Latin American Visual Studies at the University of Texas, Austin.

Jane Brodie is a visual artist and translator specializing in the visual arts.