Appropriation as Practice

Art and Identity in Argentina
2006. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-1-4039-7314-6
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan Us

Buch, Englisch, 230 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 237 mm, Gewicht: 503 g

Reihe: Studies of the Americas

How the "traffic in culture" is practiced, rationalized and experienced by visual artists in the globalized world. The book focuses on artistic practices in the appropriation of indigenous cultures, and the construction of new Latin American identities. Appropriation is the fundamental theoretical concept developed to understand these processes.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schneider, A.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

The Paradoxes of Identity in Argentina On Appropriation Sites of Appropriation: the Buenos Aires Art World Copy and Creation: Potters, Graphic Designers, Textile Artists Fashionable Savages: Photographic Representations of the Indigenous Setting Up Roots: On the Set of a Cinema Movie in a Mapuche Reservation Practices of Artistic Fieldwork and Representation: The Case of Teresa Pereda's 'Bajo el Nombre de San Juan' The Indigenisation of Identity

Über Autor(innen)

ARND SCHNEIDER is Associate Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Oslo, Norway.