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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.
Contents
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
